how to cure weed anxiety?

hi im 20 years old, and ive smoked since i was about 14-15 years. not often, but now and then when the oppurtunity offers it.
ill get to the point, how do you cure weed anxiety? ive had it as long as i can remember, except first 1 or 2 years. Getting high then was most often all about laughing my guts out, and i really miss it

i get realy socially anxius, some times its pretty bad and i have difficulty comunicating with other people at all, or turn dead quiet. ive read somewhere that weed anxiety is easy to get rid of, so thats why im asking you guys here before i make my desicion to quit smoking final.

 

idk man i got a lot of natural social anxieties and smoking weed has always seemed to help that not make it worse... if its to bad i would just smoke by myself and a friend or two and get use to that then move up to where your more comfterable around more people.

 

make sure its a good environment before smoking. if you end up anxious/paranoid,

the only thing you can do is to talk yourself down and forget about it.

 

you must understand that is not weed anxiety, it`s just anxiety and it`s very probable to happen to you even if you are not high. high just incenses the senses, so your anxiety becomes harder. you must beat this and not think that the problem is with the weed. i had this problem too i have it sometimes even now, but i usually smoke only when i am in a good mood ...i mean i smoke almost every day, but when i feel anxious i don`t smoke.

 

i get your point about the anxiety already existing me and weed just magnifies it, and yes i have a history of being a nervous person. but over the last 4 years or so this has almost gone completely away, but the anxiety i expirience when high is atleast as bad now as ever if not worse.

the only thing times ive "won" over it, was the period in my life when i smoked every day, yet it was still present. problem with that is my head is already a mess, and smoking regulary makes me REALY forgetful, witch does hurt my grades. And in the restaurant industry you need a sharp memory.

good friends and placebo does sometimes make enough of an impact so that i can enjoy instead of just wory and feel bad, but thats deffinatly not always the case. see cuz when it comes down to it the problem is within myself not in my sorroundings. i can be alone in my room or with my best friend and still find something to feel depressed about.

not trying to show a negative attitude against good advices, but im trying to give a realistic insight into how hopless my situation is when it come to weed, and if there is something concrete you can do to get rid of it once and for all, or if im simply one of those people that cant handle weed nomatter what and does best in giving it up.

Forgot to mention i started meditating on regular basis a couple of months ago, and that has helped to a certain degree. Any expirienced meditators in here who knows if that could be the key? perhaps meditating while high could help

 

stop smoking and the anxiety will go away

 

what you mean? like a long break for a year or so the try again?

 

nope. if it gives you anxiety and you don't like it than don't do it any more.

 

Knowledge.

 

that is why my mom doesn't smoke

normally i would agree with him, but since you said there was a period in your life when this didnt happen it makes me think something is going on within yuo personally. i mean every now and then everyone is gonna get that awkward high, hell i do sometimes, i just get quiet and think i know what everyone's thinking. but idk i noticed that whn i have things goin on within me, like when im at a transition point in my life sometimes highs can be a bit more intense.

most people will laugh at this, but i have used weed as therapy before. i like to get baked and go for a ride (yeah i know dumb) OR write (stream of consciousness)...but i prefer the ride because of what i do. altough i love music and even more so when im high i like to turn off the music and just talk to myself. cuz when im high by myself there is no filter, and i have literally had conversations with myself that help me learn how i feel about certain situations...now i dont know if this will help yuor anxiety or not, but it might help you identify some of the underlying aggregates which might influence your anxiety or lack there of...

do you get anxious when you are with close friends in a safe environment?

 

smoke more weed durrrrrrrrrrrr

 

I know what you're going through, my friend.
All you really need to do was smoke with the people you really care about. People that you trust. I smoked with my boyfriend and two of my best guy friends. Listen to calming music. Don't go out. Just relax and have fun.
The worst thing to do is to smoke by yourself. I always have seen it as a social thing, something to have a shared experience with.

 

yes i most often do. its like i get paranoid cuz i feel people can see through me and see my thoughts and feelings y know. like theres no barrier to protect me and people are constantly judging you for the worse. i dont normally care much at all about peoples opinion about me, but when im high its like i realese this scizo wierd me whom im afraid people will see.

maybe its fears and complications so deep inside of me, that im not aware of normally that has manifested in my childhood and early teens. Now that i come to think of it does feel like the nervousness i often expirienced when i was younger, only much more intense. the paranoid feelings are magnified by feeling stressed and tired, witch leaves you feeling powerless to change the problems you ponder over in your head. you know the stressed feelings you sometimes get when you lie in your bed and think about your problems? kinda like that.

thanks for the tips so far guys appriciate it! ranting about all this has actually brought some clarity to the whole thing.

 

hmm i just thought of something reading through my post and people saying to smoke with people i trust n stuff. maybe i should just expect to act like a weirdo and prepare not to be bothered by it, just go with it and laugh of my weirdness instead...

 

i like your style

edit: actually, when i smoke A LOT of weed i get really paranoid and think that the people i'm smoking with are after me. i tend to shut up and i know that it's just the high making me paranoid but i get weird thoughts running through my head that people are after me. o.o

 

dude, don't quit smoking, cannabis will make whatever mindset you're in more powerful. IF you think you're gonna feel anxious, guess what, you probably will. Think positive, think about those nostalgic days of old, don't worry be happy bro, light up, enjoy life, put on some marley, or floyd, how can you go wrong, get some munchies, some friends, family guy, south park. IF you're outside you're more out of control so i feel ya but just don't get super ripped, get as baked as you can handle. sometimees im too baked to talk but fug it, you always have the will power to say stuff. just out of no where scream somethin stupid and it'll make ppl laugh lol. or just say whats on your mind dude, you'd be suprised at the responses you'll get which then trigger other conversation

 

just pop some Xanax or Clonazepam.. makes a better high also yo!

 

well if that's your philosophy then you might as well just get addicted to heroin. better high!

 

^^^ it sure is

 

and more cost effective