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Can i smoke marijuana to help calm temporary anxiety?
Posted by: | Commentsokay well last month (july) i took Ecstasy i took more than i should have (dubs) and late july i was suffering with bad bad anxiety and depression, its aug 28 i feel way better but still feel anxiety now, feeling thoughts non stop, and its not as bad as at first which re leaves me 
well ive been taking b12 - and b6 vitamins n it helps calm anxiety n the thoughts but still feel a tad bit unreal and don’t enjoy doing certain things anymore. cant concentrate. i also feel a lil weak but the thing is that i know this isn’t how i am because im very happy and energetic.
i know i will get better. i just want to know if marijuana can help calm some of those things for mean time like maybe a small about of puffs. and if there is the fastest way to gain serotonin. because i think that the Ecstasy wiped that shit out lol. so just let me know anything can help please and thank you.
Marijuana is also known to cause anxiety and panic attacks. It may help, or it may make it worse. You’ll have to try it to find out.
Depression? Anxiety? Help me out, guys.?
Posted by: | CommentsI’m a naturally happy guy, a true optimist. I wake up and see that it’s a beautiful morning and that makes me smile; I see that it’s a rainy morning and I love the beautiful sounds, or a gray and cloudy day and I love the colors. I’ve never woken up unhappy…until now.
I had been staying up late but waking early for a job, so I was getting <7 hours of sleep a night, but I didn’t see it as a problem. After a couple weeks of this, however, I started feeling sad or upset, drained of energy, I couldn’t fall asleep when I wanted too, but when I slept for really long amounts of time when I did, and not regularly either, reduced sex drive, and later a sense of hopelessness. These are major symptoms of a depression disorder. They would come in waves between 3-5 hours long, generally, but I found I could fight them off by hanging out with friends of something, or at least push them to the back of my head.
Every couple of days I’d say, "I’m done with this" and I’d feel better, but then they’d start up again. A bit after that, my symptoms changed. Instead of periods of intense unhappiness, I just get general unhappiness for longer, but not nearly as bad. In addition, I would occasionally by irritable or my heart would start beating really quickly.
I had another period of happiness, four days, and now my heart’s beating has become more pronounced. It’s noticeably stronger - I can sometimes see it beating by vibration in my stomach if I really look - and at times will quicken. In addition, I’m still not completely happy, but doing better.
So lemme ask you all…What’s wrong with me?
Also, my grandfather suffers from anxiety and my aunt depression, if that helps.
It is kind of difficult just to say you are depressed because you don’t mention any reason for that. It could be a physical problem. Have you been checked up by you physician recently? Sometimes the symptoms you mention is related to a physical condition not a mental condition.
Try and get a complete check up including the thyroid gland because some of the symptoms could be from a problem with that.
Wish you luck!
Severe anxiety surrounding hair…please help!?
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve never really talked about this with anyone before, but I figured this might be a good place to start to try to make some sense of this. Several years ago, I started plucking hairs in the pubic region that seemed like they "didn’t belong" (such as places where two hairs were coming out of one pore, where a hair was growing back partially under the skin, etc.). If I can see a hair starting to grow back in partially under the skin, I will take sharp tweezers and spend however long it takes (sometimes 30 or more minutes) digging it out until I succeed. This often leads to many deep, bloody wounds and I have many scars from doing this. Within the last couple of years, I’ve progressed to obsessively plucking hair from my feet and toes, too, and sometimes other places. On particularly stressful days, I come home and may spend over an hour doing this. It proves to be oddly relaxing for me and releases anxiety. When I’m traveling and have forgotten my tweezers on occasion, I can only think about getting home to pluck and am practically sweating bullets by the time I get back to my apartment…I literally drop my bags and go straight into the bathroom to pluck.
I also have a bit of a "fear" (or severe anxiety, however you want to word it) with stray hairs being on things. I am a female with long hair, and I take extreme caution to make sure no stray hairs fall out on the bathroom floor or remain in the sink or shower. I cannot walk around my apartment barefoot (ever) because I’m afraid a hair–either one of mine that I didn’t catch or one from the previous tenant (I just moved in)–will stick to my foot. I also just had a friend come in town for the weekend and stay with me and got extreme anxiety when I got into the shower and saw hairs of hers stuck to everything and all over the bathroom floor after she blow dried her hair. I spend a good 15 minutes on my hands and knees in the bathroom cleaning up the hair after she got out, and the next day, I asked her to blow dry her hair over a towel so it would catch it. Then, she picked all the hairs off the towel, threw them in the trashcan, and then I immediately threw the towel into the washing machine. I’m embarrassed to have to do this in front of my friends and try to hide the fact that I’m doing it, but sometimes I just can’t.
Anyhow, it seems that this anxiety surrounding hair is getting more and more severe and is affecting me more and more of the day. I don’t know where to go to get help with this, what can be done, or even what the heck is causing this (I’m guessing some form of OCD…?), but any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated so I can figure out how to live more comfortably with this. Thanks!
yeah this is definitely an obsessive compulsive behavior. which means it could possibly be OCD. the only thing to do is to talk to a therapist and get an opinion on what it could be. they handle things just like this all the time. if this really bothers you, then i suggest you get help asap, so you can get your life back. obsessions take over your world, and they DO GET WORSE.
good luck cheers.
please help me here.. i have a STRESS and ANXIETY question!!?
Posted by: | Commentsi have been under alot of stress and anxiety lately,, and i know it does weird feelings for your body.. so i was wondering if it is related .. i noticed my right back thigh has a tight feeling like squeezing feeling it comes and goes.. on and off…. I WALK FINE, RUN GOOD, AND NO SEVERE PAIN THAT i have to see a doc for.. just wondering is it related to stress most likely,,, and will it go away when i relax more… I AM WORRIED … PLEASE PROVIDE RIGHT ANSWER .. PLEASE HELP THANKS
It is likely that it is stress related. The muscles all over your body tense up under cases of extreme stress.
Try to relax a bit and things should get better.
Hope your thigh feels better.
It might help though if you go to see a doctor just in case. Definatly if it starts to get any worse or does not improve.
Good luck
Anxiety problem - im 15 help?!?
Posted by: | Commentshi
i have had anxiety for abt 2 months now and its really killing me.
i read that its only abt fear and if u ignore it, it goes bla bla
i just really hate it and i really want help. i hate having to fear death everyday because i do as it is a symptom
i also ALWAYS have a racing heart when i get up or something because of the anxiety
i am obese and a fair height. and ive tried exercising but it doesnt help me all that much
please help me i really hate having anxiety i have sooo much of the symptoms. 
please give me a good cure and no mean/stupid/useless comments! thnx xo
My daughter always had anxiety like in new situations but when she graduated early before her friends because she wanted to she kinda had a shock in the change in lifestyle, going from having a very social life and zillions of friends to nothing, scared about starting college, and in her first real relationship and all the changes that go along with that. She had terrible anxiety whenever she went anywhere. She would become so tense that she cramped up her stomach so it was pressing on her bladder and she had to pee all the time, which is a common anxiety symptoms.
She came to me and told me I had to take her to her pediatrician and he said this is common and we made an appointment for a psychotherapist. She only went 6 times so far and it turned her life around. Its not like you are crazy because you go to one of these psychologists. They teach you techniques to the way you think. They gave her a CD to listen to. She went off to college like after her 3rd session for a summer bridge program which helps you ease into college so its not so overwhelming and she is doing great. She now sees the therapist every month or so and the sessions are just 50 minutes.
Please make an appointment to go. Some techniques are positive thinking, cognitive therapy imagery, diaphragmatic breathing and relaxation. so for now you can search the internet and look up how to help you.
http://www.healthyplace.com/anxiety-panic/treatment/diaphragmatic-breathing-technique-for-anxiety-sufferers/menu-id-69/
First and foremost dont feel alone on this and also just in case you want some support to lose weight there is this great free site called sparkteens.com. I am adult and was on sparkpeople and lost a lot of weight.
Hey, its great you ask for help, now keep on and tell your parents you want to talk to someone about it.