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May 3, 2015 at 2:45 pm

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jinxy1995

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So I was a marijuana addict for 1 and a half years and I have now been sober 5 months and 19 days. Despite this achievement whenever I try to get high I just end up crazy anxious.

A little about me, I’ve been diagnosed with:
Major depression
Dysthymia
Generalised anxiety (inc. social, physical, sexualised)
Post traumatic stress disorder
Borderline personality disorder (almost cured)

I used to be a huge tripper (10 – 15 tabs a week on average) but I burnt out really fast after about 6 months when I had a terrible DMT breakthrough. The last time I tried to take ecstasy the come up made me so anxious. I was fine after I turned on a movie but it was a waste of the pills.

The problem is that the only thing I can handle is alcohol now and even drinking that little bit too much sends me into a spinner. I smoked a cone of Damiana which isn’t even a drug and it scared me to death.

Does anyone know where I’m coming from, especially the part with the alcohol? Or how they got through anxiety when high?
May 3, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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tryptameanie

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That’s sad to hear but not as uncommon as you seem to think. Your medical conditions alone sound scary enough. You’re obviously on some hardcore medications to begin with which can interfere with how drugs affect you pretty drastically so the only possibility you have is stopping your meds and I doubt that’s anything like a good idea.
May 4, 2015 at 12:19 am

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jinxy1995

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@Requiem 598107 wrote:

That’s sad to hear but not as uncommon as you seem to think. Your medical conditions alone sound scary enough. You’re obviously on some hardcore medications to begin with which can interfere with how drugs affect you pretty drastically so the only possibility you have is stopping your meds and I doubt that’s anything like a good idea.

Actually I’m not medicated at all. 🙂 I was heavily medicated but once I quit smoking weed I was advised to see how my moods fared and anxiety is the only thing that still bothers me, but not when I’m sober.
May 4, 2015 at 12:30 am

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Digital Buddha

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@jinxy1995 598133 wrote:

Actually I’m not medicated at all. 🙂 I was heavily medicated but once I quit smoking weed I was advised to see how my moods fared and anxiety is the only thing that still bothers me, but not when I’m sober.

if thats the case idk why you’re against sobriety.
May 4, 2015 at 12:47 am

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jinxy1995

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@Digital Buddha 598134 wrote:

if thats the case idk why you’re against sobriety.

Don’t get me wrong, I love sobriety but I love a good drink too. Just bothers me that one minute I can be having a great time and the next I’m hyperventilating because I took that one sip too many.
May 4, 2015 at 1:36 am

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Digital Buddha

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@jinxy1995 598137 wrote:

Don’t get me wrong, I love sobriety but I love a good drink too. Just bothers me that one minute I can be having a great time and the next I’m hyperventilating because I took that one sip too many.

alcohol goes poorly with most psychiatric disorders, just the way it is, benzos help with anxiety/panics but come with their own set of problems.

i guess doing a better job of not going beyond the tipping point where you start to experience acute anxiety is something to work on.

best of luck, hopefully someone will chime in with a different perspective.
May 4, 2015 at 5:20 am

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tryptameanie

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Yeah benzos or opiates should be OK, both have been used to calm psychedelics but come with potentially much more damaging side effects..

I’m pretty shocked you’re on no medication, potentially that could be a cause of this as well.
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