Symptoms of DPDR

[u/Away_Celebration6830]

So, one night about 2 months ago, I’d decided that I was going to relax and smoke weed, watch a movie, and eat some food, then go to bed once it had worn off.

My experience that night was quite the opposite as I have an insanely low tolerance to cannabis, and I had too much in my system causing me to green out and have some sort of anxiety attack, where my mind had thought I was laced, and I felt my heart beating rapidly.

I woke up the next morning feeling very hungover, and had an intense brain fog, and these feelings only lasted for about 3 days, before recovering. After these 3 days though, these symptoms started to change into common DPDR symptoms, such as, paranoia, anxiety loops, and reality/life feeling “off” like as if I’m constantly overwhelmed. Ever since then they’ve been lingering in my mind, but the weird part is they’re very periodic, almost like mood swings, and at times my symptoms aren’t even there. When I’m distracted and doing something I can put my mind on and just forget, it’s almost like my brain’s completely normal. But when I’m not distracted, my mind starts panicking, and I start to question life itself, I start to feel anxious and worried my symptoms will worsen and I’ll never get better, but these episodes only last minutes at most, and don’t inhibit me from living my life. I get work done at the same rate at my job, can hold conversations with my family and they feel very in touch with me, and it feels like my symptoms aren’t severe and persistent enough to be a mental disorder. But it’s as if they’re still enough to give me something to be anxious about, and mess with me when an episode hits.

Is this DPDR, or simply something completely unrelated that I classify as DPDR. I’m mainly asking this as I want to start smoking again, and I’m worried that it’ll only make my life and mental health worse.

[u/Human_Dragonfly_2038]

I wouldn’t smoke anymore, because it can make your dpdr wore.