Do people have panic attacks while smoking weed? Has it ever happened to you?
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Do people have panic attacks while smoking weed? Has it ever happened to you?
Marijuana has been found to make panic attacks worse. As you know, panic disorder is an intense fear or discomfort that comes out of nowhere and includes symptoms like racing or pounding heart, difficulties breathing, feelings of choking etc. People with panic disorder become very focused on these bodily sensations and begin to think all sorts of terrible thoughts about what those sensations might mean. However, when highly anxious people, who are already sensitive to their bodily sensations smoke pot it amplifies everything. Pot can bring on bodily sensations, which will likely trigger panic. In addition, when people smoke pot their thinking get compromised and they are more likely to catastrophically misinterpret their body sensations.
That is more likely to occur in individuals who already deal with anxiety issues or have a predisposition to or family history of them. That said, people who experience panic attacks while smoking have reported symptoms which include, but by no means restricted to racing heartbeat or high blood pressure.