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Q: Whats Wrong With Me?
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dontbeasquuare
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yogahoneybunny
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Georgia59
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clazzel
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hi im 21 and i started smoking weed when i was about 16. i wasnt a particularly heavy smoker but i did it once or twice a wek for a couple of years. it messed my life up. i dropped out of college because i just didnt have the motivation or the 'get up and go' that i should of done. i couldnt hold a job down for more than 3 months at a time simply because i coldnt be bothered to get out of bed. i pushed all my closest friends away because i just wasnt the same person anymore. before i was confident and lived life to the full not caring what people thought of me and i was also quite clever but i became someone who didnt even know how to socialise with people properly and was always so paranoid about what other people thought of me, so paranoid that i literally couldnt think about anything else for more than a minute without worrying about what i should be doing or saying or how i should be acting or how people percieved me. i didnt even realised id changed at the time all i knew was that i was messed up and i couldnt figure out why and i couldnt speak to anyone about it. then one day it just clicked and i realised that it was the weed so i stopped smoking it. very very slowly i started becoming back to normal, month by month i would notice tiny differences and as things were starting to click in my head and fall into place i became more and more confident. it is a very slow process, it has taken me a good two or three years to get to the stage im at now and im happy to say im almost back to my normal self. now i only worry about what people think of me once or twice a day and because my head isnt filled with anxious thoughts all the time i find i can concentrate on things so much better which beleive me makes such a huge difference on anyones life! i still have my moments where i am away with the fairys thinkin about pointless irrelevant things but im so sure that with time they will go away and ill be completely back to normal. so dont worry! hang in there because i can promise you that as long as you keep off the weed and drugs you will be absolutley fine. if you need someone to talk to you can talk to me. when i was in my horrible dark paranoid state im sure that having someone to talk to who could understand and tell me that everything would be ok would have made it so much easier to cope with so i plan to write a book about it one day. anyway i hope this helps. dont do anything silly because you havent ruined your life, if anything youve gained some really valuable life experience which should set you up for what life has to throw at you because when you get back to your old self you will find that you are a stronger person than you were before. good luck! 
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