Comments on: Day 5 – Marijuana Withdrawal Anxiety

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:54:28 +0000

I have been smoking pot for 2 years straigh, now its been 2 weeks i have stop and its really like hell , anxiety , depression etc all the time, i actually got anti-depression pills and sleep pills to help me through my sobering, but the pills will only take effect in 2 weeks from here. i am always hungry i guess because i am using alot of energy with my head. there are some up and downs but more downs .. a important factor is always think your gonna get through it and pray. if someone got the same , please reply if you have any tips to go through this

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:57:23 +0000

I’ve been smoking about three or four bowls a day each day for the last four years. At one point last summer, I quit for a month, and I felt good except for a constant sense of impending doom. When a few things started to go sour in my life, I went back to my daily routine, and it’s now been a year of constant forgetfulness, weak motivation, and hurting relationships.

Anyway, I decided last week that I want to quit for good, and it’s now been four days. The first night, I couldn’t get to sleep for three or four hours after I got in bed. The second day, I felt horribly anxious and miserable, but I did some Bikram yoga (which was soooo tough!) and felt much better. I slept great. The third day was full of mild anxiety, but nothing too major. Today, I’ve been very stressed, and have had trouble focusing, so I’m happy to have found this website with so many people feeling the same thing. We can do this.

By: Sagun

Sagun — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:05:15 +0000

Hi everyone,

I have been smoking marijuana for the last 1 year and I quit yestreday. But the symptoms are very overwhelming. I have these anxieties, restlessness and headaches with vomitting as well. I really want to quit and I need your help. I would really appreciate any comments, suggestions and tips. Also yesterday I felt uneasy to sleep. Any suggestions? And I also wanted to ask how long will these symptoms last? I want to quit and I need all the help. Hoping for a positive response

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:57:36 +0000

I gave up about three weeks ago after smoking almost every night for the last 10 years. It got to the point where the negative effects out weighed the positive. None of my close friends knew I smoked daily so I felt guilty about deceiving them. I was also starting to suffer anxiety after smoking, I’d feel good for about half an hour then feel restless and stressed. Then I’d smoke more to get the high back and the cycle continued. I too started to believe that I needed to smoke to come up with good ideas and that without it I wasn’t relaxed enough to create, I have since proved that this is not the case. Amazing what we can make ourselves believe in order to justify our addiction to ourselves. I learnt that I just needed to work through this insecurity and get used to coming up with creative ideas without pot as my crutch, learning this has helped my believe in myself and my own creativity.
Over the last three weeks I have suffered from anxiety (almost attack level), headaches, loss of appetite, irritability, night sweats, bad dreams, insomnia – worst for the first week then lessoned then got worse again.
I ended up taking low dose (over the counter) sleeping pills to get to sleep for the first 5 days then found I could fall asleep naturally, I also went to a herbalist and got some St Johns Wart which helped with the anxiety, I’m now starting to feel like my old self again.
I had tried to give up multiple times in the past but for some reason this time I know I won’t go back, the first few days I was tempted but now I can see that it was destructive for me and confused my thinking, we think it’s good for us at the time and we justify using it for a multitude of reasons but the truth is it helps us escape our reality. I believe long term use it creates a strange distance between the way we see the outside world and ourselves which is just not healthy.
I feel like I have a stronger hold on my life now, I can see things for what they are. Thanks for sharing your stories.

By: jimbob

jimbob — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:03:13 +0000

I’ve been smoking pot since I was in high school (over ten years) and have stopped smoking about five days ago. I have severe anxiety in the mornings till about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, when it gets better. I had an incredibly vivid dream this morning while I was in some kind of half asleep/half awake state. Hard to describe. The dream was about a house that I grew up in and I can see every detail. The dream was so real, it’s like I was actually there. It was an incredibly emotional experience.