Honey, it really seems to me like you’ve been self medicating with marijuana, and quitting has just made your original symptoms worse. I would see a professional psychologist and see if they recommend prescription medications. it can take a long time for doctors to get your prescription right for you. If medication is something they choose, there will be a long period of trial and error until they get the proper medication for you, because everyone is different. But I think you will find you feel a lot better than you would just smoking pot. I also recommend quitting the pot. You don’t know what type of side effects there could be from mixing with prescription medications. You should never take any other illegal drugs for any reason at any time anyways.

Also, on another note. I would not recommend telling your doctor about the pot. I have a friend who went in for treatment and told her psychologist about her addiction, and now they only want to treat the addiction and refuse to consider that perhaps she has symptoms which are completely unrelated to her drug problem.

If you feel you need professional help with quitting pot you can seek that elsewhere, at a separate facility. If your psychologist prescribes medication make sure to inform the doctors at the drug treatment facility.

I hope you feel better soon.

I am 5’3″ and normally weight about 100 pounds. I quit smoking 3 days ago and haven’t slept at all since. I’ve even tried over the counter sleep aids. It has no effect. I try to eat at least once a day, but it’s hard. I have no appetite and when i put food in my mouth it’s hard to chew, and when I try to swallow I feel like I’m choking. I can’t afford to lose any weight. I’m so tiny as it is, if I lose any weight I’ll look like a holocaust victim. I’ve been really sweaty since I quit also. I sweat all the time, especially in my sleep. I wake up drenched. I’m dehydrated all the time. I can’t concentrate. I’ve been trying to type this for about 7 minutes. It’s hard to hold a thought. My mind keeps racing. It’s like my mind is a television and someone dude has the remote and just keeps switching through channels. Thoughts just fly through my head and then are gone. Time feels like it’s going by sooooo slow. Every day is an eternity. I try to keep myself busy, and I think I’ve been doing good, and it’s been hours, and then I check the clock and it’s been minutes. I’m so nervous. I feel like I wanna rip my skin off. I don’t know what to do with myself. I can’t even watch T.V. I can’t sit still.

This seriously sucks. What’s the point? I mean, what could the pot be doing to me that’s so much worse than how I feel right now? I’m not being rhetorical, I’m serious. I’d like to know what pot actually does to you that is bad for you. I know that it can permanantly change your brain chemistry if you smoke before your brain is fully developed (roughly around age 21), but I’m in my early 30′s. I know that inhaling any smoke can contribute to cancer. Burning anything releases carcinogens. I know it has temporary effects on your short term memory, i.e. while under the effects of marijuana your brain will retain less information than when you are sober. But these are the only side effects that I am aware of. I kinda just wanna smoke again. I can afford it, and I don’t see that it is having any more of a negative effect than the withdrawals are.

Any thoughts?