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Panic attack while high.
18/F
I've been smoking weed for a while and I have had a few panic attacks while high. (Usually from smoking too much.)
But the other night I was in the car with my boyfriend and we were high. He put an angry/depressing Eminem song on and I started to feel really anxious and I came very close to having a panic attack.. Until he changed the music to Bob Marley (my favorite) which then made me feel at ease and I was able to breathe. The Bob Marley song was over and another angry song came on and I felt anxious again.
I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any psychological studies on listening to certain music while you're high and how they effect you?
Thanks! :)
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The poster below is right about medical studies pertaining to what you asked. However, it's blatant that you don't want to experience any further attacks and can't handle them well. Most people can't and like you they want to know the triggers and how to stop them.
We know that the cause of the attacks has something to do with marijuana--well a lot to do with it or it seems. It would seem that it would be in your best interest to stop smoking it altogether.
What's it done for you really? I'm not sure how and if music plays into it for that see the previous poster. But to me it seems obvious that drugs are causing the reaction. Stop the drug lose the panic attacks if that is the direct source.
Stop the weed and then see if you have this level of anxiety or panic outside of it. That's how you will know whether you have a medical issue with panic or not.
When you experience an attack find some place to be alone and put your head between your knees and take deep breaths. It will subside a lot easier. Been there, done that with that kind of anxiety.
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There are so many studies confirming the connection between panic and smoking weed that I'm not even sure which one to bother linking you too. However, this link is a quick summary of the correlations between marijuana use and anxiety and panic attacks: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Smoking, both cigarettes and marijuana, increases anxiety and panic attacks in people who are already prone to them. This has been confirmed over and over again by studies over the last decade. Weed is generally thought to have a calming effect, but that isn't true for a lot of people. A lot of people will respond to marijuana with anxiety, panic and paranoia, at least some of the time.
Smoking (anything) disrupts your breathing, raises your heart rate and lowers the amount of oxygen in your blood... Even if you aren't experiencing the emotions, you've placed your body into the same physical state as though you were having a panic attack.
The music effect is also pretty standard and well established. We have sympathetic emotional responses to the music we listen too (that means we feel what the music suggests we should feel, even unconsciously). Often this happens only in a very, very small ways, and we don't even notice it. Look around when you are walking through a mall or store while there is music playing - Almost everyone will be walking in time with the beat of the music. It's simply easier to ignore these effects when you are stone sober, when you are hyper aware due to drug use, the effect can be much more pronounced.
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