Panic Attacks and Marijuana
Why Marijuana Can Cause Panic Attacks
Marijuana can definitely provoke panic attacks in some people. From the standpoint of Traditional Chinese Medicine, these panic attacks can come from several different reasons:
1) The heat and expansion of the marijuana pushes the liver system beyond its boundaries of controlling and promoting the smooth flow of qi around the body. The result is that the liver system goes into a panic in an effort to regain control of the qi.
2) Rapid expansion of the vessels of the heart creates a state that is beyond the individual’s ability to maintain in an integrated way. This creates a kind of shock to the nervous and vascular systems that engages panic.
3) Marijuana can prematurely mobilize jing from its place in the kidney system and deploy it to any or all other systems in the body for no good reason. In the natural world, this experience would normally only come from attaining this state through performing a peak act that would require a lot of training and preparation. In the absence of this foundation or a clear natural logic for attaining the state, the sympathetic nervous system kicks in ready to go, but with a heightened sense of panic because there’s nowhere to go.
4) Rapid expansion of kidney qi is the quickest route to fear. Fear mobilizes a sympathetic nervous response. The result is panic.
5) There’s another kind of panic attack that is specific to marijuana called Marijuana Induced Stress Trauma, or
MIST.
Mist is characterized by a sense of restlessness that is coupled with a feeling of helplessness.
This Too Shall Pass
There are other scenarios that can occur, but these are the most common. Marijuana-induced panic attacks do subside, but it can take a while, and that span of time can feel like a very long time when a person is in that state. If a person gets panic attacks when s/he takes marijuana, they should stop taking it.
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Wikipedia reports that “between 20 and 30 percent of recreational users experience
intense anxiety and/or panic attacks
after smoking cannabis...”
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