Partner is quitting weed and experiencing horrible anxiety/symptoms of withdrawal
My partner (29M) is quitting weed after long term chronic use. He has had really bad depression and anxiety for years now. Also really bad back pain from working construction for most of his twenties. I think the anxiety makes the pain worse, and the pain makes the anxiety worse. He hasn’t been able to work a job for about six months bc he’s felt so poorly.
Quitting weed seems to be the only advice anyone offered that he hadn’t tried. He stopped smoking as a last ditch effort. It’s been about a week. The panic attacks he’s having as of the last two-three weeks typically trigger him to want to go into the emergency room or urgent care. Urgent care professionals on multiple occasions have said this is just anxiety and there are no health concerns. He has been prescribed klonopin and muscle relaxers. He seems to feel relief when he is home alone all day… but when my daughter (5 yrs old) and I come home and we start an inevitably activating/stimulating afternoon/bedtime routine, he becomes triggered, and it makes his symptoms come back. Numb/tingling left arm, high blood pressure, shallow breathing, panic, pain, etc. well into the wee hours of the night, unable to sleep. Some days it feels like he might just be better off living on his own.
Has anyone else in this subreddit quit weed and experienced anything like this? When can we expect these symptoms to subside?