Zoloft and Marijuana.... not a good idea

i've been on zoloft for almost 2 months and yesterday i smoked marijuna and had the worst experience of my life. i've only smoked a few times before and nothing like this ever happened, but anyways i took 2 hits and started playing call of duty(xbox shooting game). i got so into the game that i actually thought i was in the game and i just had a million ideas going through my head. it was like a daydream but really intense, then i just lost it and i thought i got shot and that i was going to die. i really thought i was going to die and thought i was experiencing what people go through before they die. i got really scared because for a moment i thought it was really bad nightmare then i realized i wasnt dreaming and this was real and i couldnt get out of it. i realize now that i had a panic attack, but i've never had one before and didnt know what was happening to me. I kept thinking that i was really dying and it just kept getting worse and worse and the feeling was beyond anything ive ever felt in my life. It started off scary and then the feeling just doubled and doubled and i thought it was going to get get so bad and i thought this feeling was just going to go on for eternity and just keep getting worse. my cousins got me some water and took me outside to get fresh air and i came back to reality, but it definately was the craziest experience in my life. i realized a lot of things just beyond anything i can describe or explain. but iam pretty sure it happened because of the zoloft my cousin said he never saw anything like that happen to someone off just weed.

Woah. 8O

I can't smoke marijuana. I am not on any medication, but everytime I smoke it I get all paranoid. My social anxiety is amplified, and I feel trapped in a cage and I am convinced everyone must be thinking the worst of me and that I'm making everyone uncomfortable and they all feel sorry for me and that they know that I'm different from everyone else. And so I have to excuse myself from the social situation I'm in, and go be alone. Then I overanalyze every detail of life and I feel like I've made life altering realizations, like I am fucking nuts and bolts crazy, and that I am a burden on my family, and that I am alone and I have nobody, and then I start thinking that I am never going to be successful, that I am literally insane, and that I will have to be institutionalized, and that nobody likes me. And I start thinking that I could be dead and my life could be hell. And then I go to sleep somewhere and when I wake up all those thoughts go away and I'm back to normal. As normal as I can be. don't smoke pot, if you want to do drugs, do speed--uppers. I have tried meth and when I did, I got a sense of euphoria, a warm feeling that I was okay. That we are all okay. And everything was happy. Of course that feeling doesn't last and meth can ruin your life, not that it has ruined mine, as I have only done it like twice, a few years ago. But if you want a nice everyday recreational drug I reccoment pain pills or xanax. Now xanax can really help us. I am serious. Xanax takes away my anxiety. I am a normal person on xanax, but of course my doctor would not prescribe it because he thinks it dulls the mind. he put me on celexa instead, and it didn't help.

I don't smoke pot either, it makes me scared that someone's going to walk up and smack me in the forehead.

I've heard a lot of people here praise pot for SA, but I wonder if something that has a tendancy to make you paranoid is okay for people who are ALREADY paranoid.

I had a seizure when I was taking Zoloft. One moment I was sitting at a table listening to someone talk and the next moment I felt like I was dead asleep and dreaming about something. It's very dangerous stuff. Now I stay away from head shrinkers and prescription medicine.

Here's a link to a great book Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. The book explains how dangerous these drugs are and how the drug companies don't care who gets hurt in their quest for bigger profits.

http://www.amazon.com/Mad-America-M...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225105460&sr=8-1

Prozac made me manic, serzone may have caused liver damage, wellbutrin, klonopin, celexa, paxil, etc. didn't help either. None of these drugs really helped me. They gave me a placebo effect that lasted 1 or 2 months, but in the end they were useless.

http://smartabouthealth.net/drugs/2008/10/26/majority-of-doctors-dont-tell-patients-about-placebo-treatment/ said:

Majority Of Doctors Don’t Tell Patients About Placebo Treatment

Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - According to a new study published in the British Medical Journal, 50% of American doctors prescribe placebos to patients without actually telling them.

The American Medical Association recommends that doctors only prescribe treatments to patients if they have agreed to it.

This new study though has found that doctors are not following these recommendations.

A placebo consists of a pill that does not really give any physical benefit to the patient.

Instead, the placebo is just a painkiller, vitamin, sugar pill, or sedative given to patients.

Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health carried out the survey on 679 doctors in the U.S.

62% stated that placebo treatment was acceptable according to their standards.

70% of these doctors who gave placebos to patients stated that the drugs could give their patients potential benefit.

Only 5% of doctors actually told patients that it was a placebo treatment.

The idea is to give these pills to patients to make them psychologically better.

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uhhh your weed was probably laced with something else.

To smoke marijuana with anxiety disorder is probably one of the worst and stupidest things one can do. Marijuana increases receptivity and makes you even more aware of your anxiety.

dottie said:

uhhh your weed was probably laced with something else.

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That was my first thought, but a lot of weed at once can cause hallucinations.
The op said "2 hits", though.
Definitely something else there.

i dont think it was laced because my cousin was smoking too. he was fine and he wouldnt do anything like that. it was his stuff too so nobody else did anything to it. i've been searching alot on google and some people say anti-depressents and marijuana can cause bad trips, but it all depends on the person.