since 4/20

i havent smoke since 4/20 [which also happens to be my birthday], but it's NOT by choice. story time:
a few days before 4/20 i took waaaay too many benadryl [which i had been doing for a while, as an alternate to getting high. DON'T TRY IT] in my french class and it brought on a MASSIVE panic attack. people who heard about it thought i had OD'd. so anyway, it was horrible and stuff, by far the worst panic attack i've ever had. so a few days later it was 4/20. id been smoking weed VERY heavily since the beginning of september, and i'd loved every minute of it. im not going to lie. i. love. weed. so anyway, on 4/20 me and 2 friends bought a sack and went off to smoke it. i took one hit and was kinda anxious, but not too bad. then i took another and just got really freaked out. i kept repeating "everything's gonna be fine" over and over and over, severely irritating my friends. i thought i was fine though, as long as my friends held on to me and we kept walking. we went into a bookstore, but it was hot inside and i felt like i was suffocating so i sat on a bench outside. the 3 of us ended up sitting there for about 2 hours, my friends holding my shoulders [so i wouldnt float away] and giving me simple math problems. i did random multiplication tables for almost 2 hours. i was fine afterwards, but that has never happened to me before, and i havent been able to smoke since. i can just tell it would be bad. i mean, im shaking just TYPING about what happened, and its been 2 months. just wondering if anyone has had any similar experieces.

Hi there,

No similar experience; however, I'm very glad that you have stopped! Alternative chemicals only make depression and anxiety worse even though you may think it will help at the time.

Tranquility

Pot triggered my last psychotic episode.

And, of course if you are taking psych meds—alcohol and other drugs don’t play well with them.

That is how I quit drugs...I used to do hallucinogens...a million years ago...and then every time I took something I had bad trip...then all i did was smoke pot...but then every time I smoked pot I began having a panic attack...so I finally quit. And so panic attacks, in that case, turned out to be a good thing...I havent smoked pot or done any drugs in over 15 years...

Congratulations PetulantWolf

Same here really, it all just quit working. So I quit.

yeah thank god im not on meds--i couldnt take them anyway, seeing as i can barely take non-drowsy allergy pills. and thank god im not--and never have been--a drinker. however i must say one thing about weed: i've had ocd for quite a while. however when i would get high [which was often] i would often forget about having ocd. so eventually i stopped needing to do my rituals, so one day i just...stopped. i stopped cold, havent done anything ocd-related since then.