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Derealization - I feel like im high!(Completly Sober)

Everyday for the past week ive been dealing with derealization...It started out subtle and now I feel like im high and unaware of my sorroundings...Everything is a blur and I feel really limp like everything is in slow motion...Im really scared, my anxiety has never been this bad...I almost called 911 the past few nights cuz I cant sleep and I tend to dwell on my symptoms...Somebody plz tell me im ok I feel like im losing it...Im waiting for my DSHS interview for government aid but frankly im losing my patience I can't continue like this...I need help, ever since my first panic attack last January life has been a nightmare for me...I hope this goes away...Anyone else feel the same way on a daily basis
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Exactly what's been going on with me after smoking one day... I got ridiculously high and remained for like 13 hours.I freaked out to my parents... They tried to calm me down but I told them I feel like I'm gonna be high forever... Well, it's one month later and I'm still feeling this surreal dreamlike ...thing... and I want out... So badly... I've gone everywhere with my mind from feeling like God is punishing me to feeling like I've died and I'm not even a real person anymore... It is very comforting to me to know that I am not alone. I am scheduling an appointment with my doctor next week finally. My dad told me that I might be deficient in certain vitamins and probably should start taking some multi vitamins or something. This whole thing has caused me tons of anxiety, delusion, depression, so I think that after this is through, I'll be seeing a therapist as well. I am normally very happy, driven, excited to travel, excited to see friends, it seems like all of that is meaningless right now because I can't enjoy it to its full potential. I don't know at this point. Just praying it leaves me soon.
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That happened to me too (someone put something in my pot) and afterwards I felt high like that long after the effects worse off.  I realized that I was depersonalizing; and to be honest it is VERY scary and you feel like it will never end.  I woke up feeling like that this morning, I am trying to get back into my body and focus but it is a slow process :(
i get my THC from a legal medical marijuana place and i have learned some things about this drug.  Marijuana should never be smoked in a large quantity because of anxiety problems that do happen to a lot of people.  THC helps to calm me down in very low doses and also helps my back problems.  People grew up thinking, probably because of ridiculous laws that it should be smoked in large quantities to get high and they would get high but many times it would be full of terrible anxieties which is no fun and could cause a long period of depressive anxiety attacks.  THC is a strange drug in that it completely works different when smoked in large quantities .  when smoked in small quantities it can be very calming but some people have  terrible experiences when smoked in quantity.  Of course there are some people that enjoy the intense high so you have to be careful with it and if you enjoy life the way it is , why smoke at all.  Also if you smoke CBD which does not make you high with marijuana, this seems to relax the anxiety effects.  CBD is  also from the pot plant but is does not cause a high but has many positive affects on your body. I am not a DR. so if your having problems talk to an open minded health professional for help with your particular problem.  Over all there has been many lies put out buy our government for many years but many  professionals are becoming more educated to the benefits of THC as well as downfalls with it if used incorrectly.  As with any medicine be careful as to how you use it.
No, that's not how it happened at all.  When I was young, we smoked a lot because the marijuana was natural and natural pot has low THC concentrations.  It took a lot to get high at all.  Then the Yuppies got to it and bred pot that was incredibly high in THC.  Nobody ever smoked a lot of that, it was too expensive.  The joints were rolled so thin you could barely hold them.  That's the problem with pot today, it's an engineered plant, not a natural plant.  But there were always people who got anxious when stoned, and it gets worse as you get older.  Almost everyone I grew up with stopped using it as they aged because it started to make them nervous.  This was more true with the newer pot, because of the extremely high THC levels.  Now, there are breeds that are supposedly more calming now, so I can't speak to that.  As for CBD, why on Earth would anyone smoke that?  Smoking anything involves incomplete burning, which produces some pollutants, so with CBD it's much better to just take the oil.  There's no need to smoke it.  As for benefits, we really don't know yet, the research is bad as it being illegal for so long made it impossible to do good research on it.  By the way, CBD usually comes from industrial hemp, which while in the same family as pot, has very low THC levels and won't make you high.  
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hey lacey.. how can i get in contact with you i have some questions about this because im absolutely terrified
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I would love to know from past post or recent post if there is anything that has helped balance out the feeling.
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I have been feeling like I am in a state of surrealism for about 3 months now. It gradually got worse over the last 6 months. I was driving myself crazy trying to make people including my wife understand how I feel. I always said,"the best way to explain it, is that I feel like I am high on a drug but I am not." My doctor put me on Zoloft for the past month and I go back for a visit on 3/31 to follow up. I feel a little at ease and I can focus, but my body still feels the same. I feel good knowing that I am not alone and I would love to feel normal again. It is a very very scary feeling.
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Yes, I know this was last year but.. I been feeling the exact same way buht mine is like im here but im not here when will it go away it scares me and i dont know how to control it i dont feel like myself anymore aha i want to tell doc.'s or counselors but they may think im crazy or somthing.. Its scary i juss wanna feel myself again :( I want to live my life and feel like im acctully here its crazy i thought i was by myself on this but thanks every comment on here was very helpful! Thank You so much :)
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I feel this way all the time..ill be 21 next week n it scares me cuz i feel like i won't make it. i feel like everything is slow n fake ..i hate it n wish it stop . things aren't fun to me anymore n I'm always having blurred vision ..i need help please ...i just wanna live my life like i used ti
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