Day 5 - Marijuana Withdrawal Anxiety
Posted by admin on March 22, 2008
It’s been a weird couple of days. I have had all sorts of nervous energy and anxiety…I don’t want to call them panic attacks, but rather feelings of intense dread for no reason. Sometimes my mind races. It kind of feels like a ball of energy heating up at my center and moving up the top of my body. I think this nervous energy is the cause of my insomnia as well.
I notice that I have been ‘holding’ my breath a lot and have been tense or fidgety for no reason. I have been doing some of the stress relaxation techniques and deep breathing drills which are actually working ! I haven’t experienced the marijuana withdrawal anxiety before to this severity. Usually it was only mental, but the physical withdrawal symptoms from cannabis are discomforting. I need to bleed off more stress during this beginning transition phase. With the right stress management program, the stress and anxiety from marijuana withdrawal can be minimized.
Quitting Marijuana can cause anxiety in some people, but I don’t know how long it is supposed to last, and what to expect. Needless to say, the last couple of days have NOT been fun. I got about 6 hours of solid sleep. Normally I wake up a lot during the night, but this was a nice uninterrupted rest.
Only one dream of note so far, all I remember is being hit in the liver by something, then someone I knew (don’t know who) hitting me in the same spot.
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Luci said,
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us all and for building this website.
I am so grateful for all the tips and for being able to read about people in the same situation as I am.
I wish you good luck and I hope you can remain strong and away from the weed.
Cheers
Brian said,
I have used marijuana for many years and at different concentrations. I have recently stopped smoking weed and have experienced great discomfort the past few days.. These symptoms include anxiety, paranoia, restlessness, stress and sleeplessness. I have had two “minor” anxiety attacks the last two days and had about 6 different “bad dreams” in one night.. I even experienced a minor case of hallucination while half asleep. These symptoms have caused me to over-analyze many things and it sucks!
jenny said,
Hello. I have been smoking pot for the last 4 years everyday. It’s been 2 weeks off the weed, and i have been very tired, also getting headakes and dreaming a lot!! Im hoping this will go away soon. Im also very lightheaded, and have a hard time sitting still somedays, my advice is to not give up, exercise and eat well.
Anya said,
I’m so glad I found this website, being able to interact is so helpful. This is my second time seriously quitting (before I could never go a week). I’ve gone 30 days recently, and when my dog got sick (and eventually died) I justified to myself that it is okay to do it again. I thought it would numb the pain and make it easier to forget my best friend, however, when I got sober again it hit me just as hard. Everything reminds me of him. THe couch he’d sleep on. All of the fur. THe slobber on the walls. The effing urn with his ashes. Anyways, I too am always really tired. I’ve before that you should just sleep it off for the first few weeks and try to exercise. I do exercise… just had an intense work out with personal trainer.. but i think now I just want to sleep. I needed weed for school, it really helped me concentrate in college. I had a 4.0… really helped with the ADD.. But i also noticed my libido was almost non existent (but that came back after a week of not smoking). I think it’s important to not count the days of how long you’ve been sober but look at the situation overall and the benefits one gets from quitting. I think it’s bee na couple of weeks since i’ve been sober and I only got the anxiety for the first two days. I think it has to do with me quitting for a month before .. instead of the first time i quit after 4 years… the withdrawal was a lot more severe then. I will keep checking back here… My main problem is depression and laziness.
Thanks
tom said,
k i have quit for a week, well at 11pm tonight its a week, i have been restless, (everything i had to do HAS BEEN DONE) and have had loads of time to spare, i have started reading catching up with study actually doing the things i said i would love to do when i was stoned but never got around to doing them, i have been smoking almost everyday for 7years, yes its fine for those who dont want to do anything with their lives but are you really happy doing nothing? i have had 2 sleepless nights, 2nights brilliant sleep with the most amazing dreams (i never dream!) and two normal nights sleep. ALL my friends smoke (i started first amongst most and introduced many to it- i do feel bad but they made the same choice as me at the start) i have not been avoiding them but i have realized my friends are all wasters, some of them are extremely talented musicians, artists and some college qualified but are too lazy to do anything with what hey have. this has really been the reason for me to stop smoking everyone should do what makes them happy, smoking makes you content with doing nothing and wastes the short life you have away. today im very sick have sever headakes, nauseous, irritable and extremely inflamed throat yep flu like but thats normal when giving up anything your body has become used to. anyway just take one long non-stoned look at yourself and ask yourself are you where you want to be if your happy REALLY happy don’t stop, but be honest with yourself and if the answer i even “kinda” their IS something wrong! stopping will help you outline and act on what needs to be done and not procrastinate ONE THING FOR SURE I WILL NEVER LEAVE DOPE CONTROL ME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
taro said,
try going to the gym and working out, it will relieve the tensions. and it will keep ur mind off the chronic.. good luck keep this updated!!
andres said,
anyway i think quitting smoking rules why?
1. ytou are smarter
2. you see things as they are, you dont need any filter or distorsion
3. it makes me feel like someone “good and normal”, i dont need more extra guilt
4. more money, time and energy for useful things
5. get rid of bad influences, and bad vibes, places and persons
6. you can feel, and think clearly. i can see clearly now.
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