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How To Get Rid Of Anxiety?

The last few times that I ve smoked pot, I ve had very weird attacks. After the first couple hits of weed, I feel fine. But when I smoke a little more, my jaw starts to feel kinda funny, kinda like it s numbing. Then after a while, I start focusing on every little pain in my body, and it feels horrible. When I get too cold, it just feels like I m becoming numb, thus thinking I m dying, thus causing crazy bad anxiety. I shake a lot as well. This never used to happen, and for a while, I would just get really depressed when I smoked, but now, it spirals into really bad anxiety, and a feeling that I m going to die. Does anyone know exactly what I may be experiencing, and maybe a way I can make it stop ? Because smoking used to definitely make me happier and calmer, but now it just makes me shake, and scared.
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Hello, thanks for the query. One of the side effects of smoking cannabis (pot, weed, marijuana) is occurence of cannabis induced panic attacks or also known as bad trips cahracterised by symptoms of intense anxiety, palpitations, feeling weird, numbness, intense fears of death. People have acted crazy, even done homicides (run amock) under influence of cannabis induced panic attacks. As cannabis is fat soluble & slowly cleared from body; these attacks can occur for a few days even after stopping smoking. Hence best way is stopping cannabis smoking altogether. As there are other health hazards like Psychosis after cannabis use; its prudent to stop using cannabis. You can use sos etizolam, clonazepam (benzodizepines) as anxiolytics to control these distressing symptoms. Hope this helps. Good luck
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How To Get Rid Of Anxiety?

Hello, thanks for the query. One of the side effects of smoking cannabis (pot, weed, marijuana) is occurence of cannabis induced panic attacks or also known as bad trips cahracterised by symptoms of intense anxiety, palpitations, feeling weird, numbness, intense fears of death. People have acted crazy, even done homicides (run amock) under influence of cannabis induced panic attacks. As cannabis is fat soluble & slowly cleared from body; these attacks can occur for a few days even after stopping smoking. Hence best way is stopping cannabis smoking altogether. As there are other health hazards like Psychosis after cannabis use; its prudent to stop using cannabis. You can use sos etizolam, clonazepam (benzodizepines) as anxiolytics to control these distressing symptoms. Hope this helps. Good luck