Paranioa..grr

almost everytime i smoke i get paraniod and i dont say much because of that...unless im already drunk..but i dont want to get drunk cause it doesnt let me feel the whole high like i want...Is there any other ways to stop the paranioa..i heard zanex has helped some ppl..but iduno..i love to smoke,but id enjoy the ganja even more if i wasnt paraniod!

 

Are you smoking in places you are comfortable? How often do you smoke?

 

That would happen to me when I first started smoking. I changed my mentality by thinking to myself, "Hell, even if the worst happens, at least I'm high." What could happen, all you have to do is close your eyes and think about something good and it will all be good. Nothing will be the end of the world, even if the worst happens (which it WON'T). Over time, the feeling just went away. Even in situations when everyone else is trippin out and we're almost getting caught and stuff, I'm always pretty chill now.

 

i usually smoke alone..but the times i get paraniod is when im with other ppl..and the weird thing is that im usually just paraniod about like how i act around others high..cause i always feel like im way more stoned than others because they seem to beable to act completely normal andi dont want to say anything stupid and i dont want my voice to sound diff or anything...i kno im weird lol! Im a lightweight i guess u could say..cause 2 hits and i got a nice high..its been that way since highschool! no matter how often i smoke it stays the same.....

 

I'm usually only paranoid when I'm the only one high in a group of people. Especially if I didn't tell anyone I smoked earlier and what not. Or if I venture out into the 'world of the unstoned' while completely baked. Intense paranoia. There's really no reason for it, people I hang with are cool. It's just part of what marijuana does to you I guess.

 

I always find the people you are around when high are the most significant factor. People that don't 'understand' cannabis always used to bring me down, when I'd been high a good few times I learnt to let things like that go and just relax more.

 

One beauty of a chilling device for ones own brain is this simple:

1. Breath in VERY slowly counting up to ten

2. Breath out VERY slowly counting down from ten

Don't do it obviously, I do this down the street or any time I start breathing short sharp, panic inducing breaths.

 

Try to love everything around you, good and bad, with all of your soul. Every plant, animal, or inorganic object. You must accept the imperfections of your current consciousness in order to rise to a higher and more positive one.

 

Its just cuz ur still gettin used to smokin in front of people. I am sure the more u smoke with people the more better u will get with your paranoia

 

Maybe you're smoking too much of it.

I once felt horrible dread, this one time I got high. I stood up for 48 hours, then smoked, bad idea. My heart felt like it was going to explode out of my chest, and I kept thinking about how I am going to die - I hated the entire world at that point.

I want to smoke again - I just hope that I never re-experience that.

 

back in the day i used to always smoke with alot ppl and then i stoppd smoking around them because i didnt like the paranioa! im gona try agian to smoke around ppl just hope its a good experience this time :/

 

but why worry about saying/acting stupid in front of others? their opinion of you shouldn't matter, let loose enjoy yourself and paranoia will greatly decrease if not stop altogether.

 

I think I am not too bad at controlling paranoia, because I often get paranoid normally. I'm mildly obsessive compulsive, so I'm use to saying to myself, "That's totally irrational, calm down." However, there have been a few instances where I was high and I became more sensitive the OCD.

 

Do you ever feel like that when you're sober? What you describe is more along the lines of an anxiety disorder. I had (have) social anxiety disorder, getting stoned always amplified it.

Saw a shrink for a couple weeks, got prescribed some medication and haven't had a problem since. Could be worth looking into

 

actually when im sober i can be shy at times or uncomfortable! like i hate when ppl stare and im always thinking that there judging me etc.. isnt a shrink exspensive? what meds were u prescribed?

maybe i do have a "social problem"

 

Sent you a message.

 

Smoke a little less. This is just a phase that you will get through soon enough.

 

I used to be very shy and self conscious about my voice when I smoked, but I took it as a challenge to be more social and talkative while high, and it's carried over to my sober life.

In other words, if you can be talkative when your high, just imagine how you'll be sober.

 

haha, I worry about my voice too! My brain plays tricks on me though, most of the time I'm talking perfectly normal. But when I think about what I said, every time I repeat it in my head, it becomes more and more distorted. So eventually I think I said with a very weird tempo and lots of inflection.

 

All this stuff fades with time...I'm not sre if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I had forgotten about all of these things I used to think about while high from 18-22