anxiety

[Neto]

Honestly though, here's my two cents after 10+ years of partaking in the reefer and have personally experience these weird anxiety or "panic attack"-like symptoms. Usually, people who are physically unfit tend to experience these "panic attacks" out of nowhere more often than people who lead a healthy lifestyle and have a somewhat normal social routine.

Not to say that you, Rellapse, are physically unfit or are a hermit who smokes alone often (but if you were, you'd further add to this hypothesis). I smoked quite often, sometimes multiple times per day and had no symptoms related to this for a very long period of time. Out of nowhere (seemingly), I started getting extreme anxiety attacks when I would smoked any quality of bud. It felt like I couldn't catch my breath, my hands and feet would start to become numb (also known as neuropathy/peripheral neuropathy), and the feeling of numbness would radiate outwards towards my chest and face, legs, arms.. the first time it happened I thought I was having an honest heart attack and was very close to calling 911 on myself and be admitted to the nearest ER.

I started researching what the fuck would cause this previous amazing experience to suddenly explode into this ridiculous malfeasance in a matter of a few days. What I found resonated throughout the internet forums and blogs that I perused. Fat people, and people with general unhealthy underlying medical conditions tended to experience this quite often. In much the same way that I did, all of a sudden their favorite habit turned against them and caused wild anxiety and panic attacks.

I took a 6 month break from smoking and started working out 4-5 times a week. It really motivated me to make a change in my life and I took it extremely seriously. What the hell was wrong with me that I couldn't even enjoy smoking weed anymore? Was it really as simple as my body not being as healthy as it could be and the THC was affecting my heart muscles and causing extreme palpitations? Was it something more complicated inside of my own psyche?

Whatever I did worked, because after that 6 months I lost about 40lbs and started eating much healthier than I ever had in the previous 4-5 years. I completely turned my life around all because my beloved mary-jane caused me to lose my fuckin mind and think I was dying.

I can smoke now, multiple times a week and have not had a single recurring symptom of what I experience before. I took it extremely slow when I first started smoking again. I acutely remembered what it felt like before, and I was ready for it. It didn't happen. My mind and body is back where it's supposed to be and the amazing weed is doing what it's supposed to do again. I couldn't be happier with my life now.

Hope you find that same. Cheers.