Maybe someone can give me some insight into the last year of my life and where what I am facing in regards to my mental health. Early December 2006 I stupidly smoked some Marijuana which is totally out of character for me, I don't smoke drink or do drugs.

After smoking some pot I had a long hot shower, after the shower I started to feel strange when I was talking to a friend on the phone, I suddenly could not focus on what I was saying or thinking, I panicked and hung up on my friend. I was in a complete state of panic, I paced around not knowing what I was doing, my heart was going a million miles an hour and I could not put my thoughts in order. My then girlfriend (now wife) did not understand what I was doing and I could not even explain it to her, she wanted to take me to the hospital although I refused. I eventually went to bed and although I hardly got any sleep the panicked, confused, and total out of body feeling slowly passed.

I feel like this extremely traumatic event is what has caused me so much distress in the last year I certainly did not notice any of these symptoms before the pot smoking event. Since this episode my anxiety level has gone through the roof. I feel depersonalized, anxious,timid. I have been obsessing with the though that I am going crazy or losing my mind. I have been terrified that I am going to develop Schizophrenia or a similar disorder. I have made myself believe that I am in the prodromal phase of psychosis. I often think about things such as what if I were to hear voices or see something that is not there, I often question the things I hear sometimes thinking it could be a sign of psychosis. I am terrified of going crazy and losing my job, friends, and family.

I have distanced myself from social situations more and more since time has passed, I constantly worry that people see me as being different or that they notice that I am anxious or confused. I have a hard time sometimes with eye contact and feel nervous and edgy. I feel like I may be falling into depression from feeling this way for so long now.

It has been a year since this all happened and I have been seeing a psychologist for about the last 8 months. The psychologist has not given me a diagnosis but instead has given me tools to help deal with the anxiety, when I do bring up psychosis he tends to just brush it off and says he has seen nothing to lead him to believe that I am in anyway out of touch with reality. The psychologist has helped; however, lately I feel like I am getting worse and I still worry about psychosis and loss of control. On occasion I sometimes get a few days of almost complete relief of these troublesome thoughts and feelings, the confidence seems to return and then everything bad just rushes back in again.

Am I suffering from GAD, Depression, OCD, PTSD, or is this a sign that I may be progressing into something more serious? How could all of this have started by a terrifying experience with marijuana? Do I need medication for this?

HELP?