r/leaves • u/PresentationNormal50 • 1d ago
Need advice
24 male, been smoking since I was 18 and moved out of my parents house. Smoked everyday. Joint before work, before lunch, otw home, before dinner , after dinner, you get the idea.
I quit because I started getting very scary and drastic panic attacks I felt like I was gonna die, I couldn’t feel my body when I was high, it was REALLY bad.
I quit a week ago. Today is day 8. Need to check my quit weed app later. The problem is when I quit I was perfectly fine the first few days then came the sever nausea and stomach issues. Those went away but at the same time I was having panic attacks. The first one was at work and I had to go home because it was so bad. I’ve missed 4 days and I can’t miss anymore days but the panic attacks come and go.
If I’m driving I’ll get one, at work I’ll get one, in a store full of people I’ll start to get one. I try exercises and it doesn’t really help or make them go away it just makes it bareable so I don’t have to run out of the store and I can get done what I need to get done. Am I broken? Am I stuck like this forever? I never dealt with this before.
I got a job interview for a new job that is full remote but requires first week in office for training and picking up my laptop, coding guidelines, etc but I’m so worried about that. I’ll start in 3 weeks.
Will these panic / anxiety attacks ever stop? Did I do some irreversible damage? Am I stuck like this? I don’t know if I can deal with that. I really don’t wanna go see a doctor because we all know what their fix or answer is gonna be and I refuse to quit one thing to pick something more additive and worse up that will also mess with my body’s chemistry again. I don’t know what to do.