Anxiety/depression cured...now it's back?
So, SWIM was pretty depressed & unfocused before she started smoking marijuana. She wasn't sure if her being unfocused was due to being depressed or because she has ADD. Regardless, she came out of her stupor, & was happy, carefree, & intense on learning everything she could. Then...do to a very stupid decision, she started doing snow. She did it almost everyday for a week. The next week she would do smaller amounts during weekdays, & bigger amounts during the weekend. Finally, during the fourth week, when she would come down at night & smoke weed, she would start having anxiety/panic attacks. She felt like she couldn't breathe & that her heart was beating much quicker than it should. Sometimes after a night of smoking, the next morning she would try snow again, but the same process would repeat. So she quit for a couple of weeks & tried it again thereafter. It seemed like if she didn't smoke for a while, then she wouldn't be affected. But she finally realized what crap it was, considering she used to work out a lot, ate right, & was a pretty healthy person. So, she hasn't touched the stuff for two months now. But unfortunately, now she is having a very difficult time smoking again. She'll start to worry about her heartrate again & has become very paranoid. Any noises she hears in her home really scares her & she believe someone lives above her or she's surrounded by ghosts. Sometimes she will be happy again, sometimes she'll be very negative. So she stopped smoking for about two weeks & tried it again last night. She got so scared because she wasn't sure how it would affect her, & her heartrate started racing again. It's all due to a fear, but this fear is pointless because she knows nothing is hurting me. Yet she consistently thinks she's going to have a heart attack, or she can't breathe. She is excercising again, eating healthy, etc. & she doesn't have any physical problems. The only problem she DOES have is allergies, which causes her nasal congestion, therefore she can't breathe as well. She doesn't know what to do anymore & she's very upset because she use to smoke everyday & was perfectly fine doing so. It helped her focus & to actually start doing things & to not be depressed. Sorry this is so long but she hope someone can assist her so that she can start smoking again.
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