Did trauma trigger your psychosis?
Or did it come out of the blue?
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My story is hard to understand even for myself.
I smoked looots of weed, and slowly I turned into psychotic person.
Then my brother gave me a fatal(seriously 1g of meth is fatal for most people) dose, and I went into full blown psychosis. It lasted ~1 year. The worst phase I mean.
So, in my case… it’s more street drugs than trauma. Ofc I had several traumatic events in past… but as my pdoc said that drugs were a trigger.
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Yes, I forgot about drugs.
Thank you for sharing!
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the pdocs when I was put in the state ward did an m r i on my head to see if I had tumor since sz didn’t run in my family…stumped them…I think it was the stress of being a designer of houses…lots of deadlines…pushed me over.
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I had just completed my computer programming diploma in college and was about to go to uni for software development.
The 1st semester triggered symptoms for me cuz the workload was way too much.
Ended up dropping all my classes that semester and was admitted to the hospital for psychotic symptoms.
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The stress of college, living far away from my home for the first time and taking mescaline, a powerful hallucinogen triggered my psychosis and mood swings
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My Major life event - was losing my girls. That and copious amounts of LSD i was doing in the 90’s.
I could write a life history - but ill just say, ive been shagged since i was 20.
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Alcohol and risky behavior. I only suffer from low mood from time to time.
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It’s so sad… so sorry to hear it. 
I have no words now, really.
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Its ok. Dont worry about it.
Shes 22 in March. Wish Emma would make contact tho - i could seriously throw her a few grand for my Daughter, but i know shes written me off as mental - so probably dont believe it anyway.
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I know all the ingredients that triggered my psychotic episodes
In between episodes, I was ok/fine
my last hospital episode was in 2010
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Drugs, stress, and caffeine I think triggered my break.
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I am pretty certain I had a problem, in retrospect, early on. But I attribute my problems to a consecutive series of events: high thc cannabis use, a concussion and an abuse of iboga.
Possibly my father contributed to my psychosis because I thought I was in constant pain from my accident or so I thought, but it felt real. He had me convinced I had a kidney stone for the longest while. It wasn’t only until I snapped out of my psychosis that I realized what was going on and that I needed meds. I deemed myself unfit to manage myself or could control it. That’s when they admitted me. I said you are responsible for what happens if you don’t do something now.
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My last psychosis was caused by stress, Borelliosis ( low vit.B ), bad sleep and irregular hemp use
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I was a junior in high school and my so called friends bulied me and dumped and I found that very stressful, because I was shy and it was hard to make new friends and I started hearing voices. I had a psychotic break three years later and got diagnosed sza.
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imo 50% mine was self-inflicted psychosis from cannabis and 50% predisposition for developing SZA
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