Mutt

WEED is a major trigger in panic attacks - in fact i pretty much blame pot for my starting to get panic attacks, i also blame nicotine BUT marijuana has been proven to be a trigger for anxiety attacks - so much so that they can use it to diagnose panic disorder - a doctor at UCLA who was at the forefront when panic disorder became a real illness told me this. and tracing back my experiences, pot was definitely a major player. I still beleive i would have developed anxiety attacks down the road at some point but pot use got the ball rolling. Anybody who feels that 'parnoid' self conscious feeling some people get with pot is a prime candidate for panic attacks - in my experience the only people who get that paranoid feeling on pot are people who are already prone to worry, be self conscious. Anxiety attacks are NOT all chemical imbalance - to deny that is foolish, I did deny it for years and years, there are pscychological issues in everybody with panic attacks that basically lay the groundwork and make you a prime target for them - it's both psychogical and and physical - one without the other and you won't get anxiety attacks. There are millions of people who face the worst things, death for one - NEVER get a panic attack of the type people here are talking about. There are complete psychological basket cases who NEVER get a panic attack. Two things - a personality which predisposes you to them and the 'chemical imbalance', which now has been proven to be a genetic thing have to be present to get real anxiety attacks - meaning anxiety attacks which come from nowhere, not connected to some major disturbance in your life such as death in the family, major illness, divorce or split from bf/gf, business failure etc

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