Do you believe if you've never done drugs you wouldn't have schizophrenia?

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i know that is possible, i was just referring to the people who do / did use

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I used drugs as a teen. I also had a rough time of it in life but my first psychotic episode wasn’t until 46. I believe I had a genetic predisposition to get the disease and perhaps early drug use and a hard life set it off but I don’t think they were the ‘cause’. At least not in my case. Having said that, my genetic predisposition may not have been ‘set-off’ if it weren’t for the other extenuating circumstances. Drugs and a hard life may have pushed the button but the button was already there.

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I think that if I had never done drugs I probably wouldn’t be as mentally sick and I was.

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I suffered from severe hypoglycemia which led to dementia. The cat scan indicated that the neural activity in my brain was well below normal. So the psychiatrist gave me a dopamine enhancer drug to counteract this problem.

This triggered schizophrenia.

He said that I would be back to normal 2 weeks after being off the drug.

20 years later, the schizophrenia still held on.

Shortly after this sarted he said that he no longer wished to have me as his patient and he removed all information concerning schizophrenia from my files such that I could not sue him.

This information was then passed on to all other psychiatrists I saw after that. So each psychiatrist at the first appointment said that they could help me, but once they got my file from my GP they said on the second appointment that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me at all even though we had spoken to each other no more than 5 minutes.

All this was done to cover the original psychiatrists back.

Years later, when I was in such bad condition that my hair was falling out and I looked as skinny as a twig did one psychiatrist agree to provide me with schizo drugs but only under the agreement that it was to be said that there was nothing wrong with me.

In other words, he refused to put it on paper that I was now a schizophrenic.

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This story is terrifying. Believable and terrifying.

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My brain was low on dopamine activity. The schizo drug reduced the dopamine even more and turned me into a vegetable.

I had no choice but to survive without drugs.

But it was so bad that I swallowed a complete bottle of sleeping pills and slashed my wrists.

2 1/2 days later I woke up with blood all over the place. I ended up in the hospital where they sowed my wrists back together. At that time, I was not happy to be back. 20 years have passed, and I am still alive.

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For all of you out there who have suffered, I LOVE YOU.

I will not let you be alone.

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You made me cry.

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Then you are alive, unlike so many others.

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Feel that love.

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And then there is the devils version.

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But only the true wins.

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I think that I would have developed it regardless. It may not have been as bad a case as it was without the drugs. I have a very strong family history of MI of all types: sz, sza, bipolar, neurotic depression, psychotic depression, OCD, and extended grief reaction.

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I was pretty much weirdo as child and I don’t know how I survived childhood cause a few years there were beyond overwhelming torment ,apathy,heavy ,being wierd etc
So painful it was and no one turn too n no one who understood me or cared for me.

I was outgoing toddler .real social n things happened.

I think ptsd n memories of rape n molestation n other abuses but everyone says that never happened.

But I know things did happen.

I was fu#### before I tried such.

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No, because I’ve been psychotic ever since I was a child.

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I firmly believe that I would have developed sz even if I had never used any drugs. But I still wish I’d stayed away from weed and hard drugs.

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I smiled so much crack that my brain actually stopped for a second and then exploded. The drug dealers were telling me to slow down, but I didn’t listen. I was just trying to stop the feelings.
I haven’t been the same since

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Absolutely. Weed and tabs messed my brain up.

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I was Dx’d at 32 with Sz, never used drugs, but after 2 years of Rx meds that did no good, I turned to self medication, which, I currently do neither meds.

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Well I had a family member that was committed. Smoking marijuana from jr. high through college did not help. I also tried acid. I thought I was a hippie. Now I struggle to get un-high. I really want to stop hallucinating. I can’t stand when pro-marijuana people speak it’s praises. Alot of research has been done linking pot use to developing schizophrenia. Now that marijuana is so accessible, I hope that schizophrenia/schizoaffective rates do not spike. I feel like smoking pot caused me great harm.