I smoked weed on Christmas morning and new years eve and I had mixed reactions. I hadn’t smoked in nearly a year and it was the first time on an anti-psychotic and anti-depressant. On Christmas it amplified my suicidal thoughts and anxiety and I also had some psychosis. I then smoked a couple days more after that and I was perfectly fine. Weird. I really want to smoke more in the future but I’m hesitant, I don’t know. Does anyone here smoke and have any issues with it?
Used to… no more… it amplified my paranoia and really threw me into a string of panic attacks.
Of course… at the time… the meds couldn’t work right with the pot… and it just got worse. Have NO idea how I didn’t get hospitalized one night.
My high times are over.
Good luck.
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Yeah that’s a big negative for me too. Although I did mess around with it after I got sick. Before that I was smoking all day every day and working my ass off to pay for it.
Came to the conclusion many years ago. That I can’t cope with half the stuff prescribed to me, never mind doing recreational drugs. So very clean these days although nicotine is still my drug of choice.
After I got sick I denied medication and puffed my brains out for 5 months straight. For that time I was paranoid out of my mind and having so many delusions that I ultimately ended up trying to commit suicide. I was in another world. I feel like there’s hope now that I’m on medicine but I don’t know. Maybe a bowl here and there will be fine.
It’s definitely hard to let go of. I just like being clean these days. It always bothered me that marijuana was detectable although I was a proud pot smoker. What good it did. Failed out of college twice because I was to distracted by the fantastic stuff.
I was a daily smoker in my last two years of high school; often several times a day and 95% of the time it was fun and I enjoyed it. After I got sick I discovered that I could not handle it any more; it amplified my symptoms drastically. I still smoked it occasionally but it was never fun anymore and it just made me paranoid and psychotic. I quit ALL drugs in 1990.
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at one time I would have told you I believed in it. problem is, marijuana is just as addictive as cigarettes or alcohol and it has ruined my life. caused a divorce in my past, wrecked my finances, and now I am one day stopped and I pray that I make it this time to keep from doing it anymore. I am weak against it. I say stay away from the weed.
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Used to smoke several times daily from age 17 to now (22). First it just made everything funny, and I would use it only at nights. Then I started using it all the time, I would go to school high, go to work high, and even talked to a cop while high and he didn’t suspect a thing, surprisingly. I started to prefer smoking all the time, because I could focus, study better, remember things easier, have so much more energy, and be inspired about my future. When I wasn’t high, I always had a negative outlook on my future. I got caught with a few substances on a college campus and ended up on probation. I’ve been on it for a year now, so no marijuana for that time. It ends on Feb. 3rd, so I’m considering getting back into the habit, I’m not sure, but I’m manic, or apparently manic, and this might help me out. I have some in the old hiding spot, so I’m just playing the waiting game.
I hope I don’t sound to be glorifying marijuana use, it’s not for everyone, of course.
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Weed interacts with medications because it is a psychoactive drug, and not everyone should smoke it. It doesn’t do much for me, sometimes it makes me tired when I smoke, other times more relaxed and able to socialize.
I enjoy marijuana, it’s not addictive or a priority to me. If I were more into it I’d buy it or something but I just smoke with friends when they have it.
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I know a good few people with Bipolar or who may have Bipolar that say weed helps them with that more than anything. I know a girl who prefers to medicate with weed than taking anti-depressants or anti-psychotics and it does seem to work for her, she’s very down to earth and nice.
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Glad to hear that StarryNight! I wish psychiatrists would take a mental note that not everyone experiences a worsening of symptoms while using marijuana, and it can at times help people. For every person marijuana makes worse, it helps another. Oh, psychiatrists, why can’t you realize this fact?
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No weed. Weed bad. Psychosis in a bag. Makes Mouse very sad. Totally not cool or rad.
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hey,
It’s poison.
There’s that old saying. …when a child I thought childish things…now I’m an adult I got rid of childish things…( paraphrase )
There’s a rule of thumb I’ve learned from a long association with this website. …As a schizophrenic I got rid of weed…that was a good decision…
It’s doing you trouble and it’s not good especially with positive symptoms…seen a bit online saying it probably helps depression but even Ketamine is promising…
For schizophrenia smoking weed is a stupid thing…Give it up !
A friend in the struggle,
rogueone.
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Yup bad news.
i quit many years ago.
yuck.
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i still love it. it doesn’t make me psychotic at all. it affects me like a normal human. my schizophrenia is mild on most days… i’m pretty normal to be honest.
I smoke synthetic weed in small doses…I know it’s supposed to be so bad but it works for me like antidepressants are supposed to…just in small doses and I don’t recommend it for everyone
Used to . Quite sure it caused my prodromal phase. One drunken night I Smoked a bunch of hydroponic i think weed with hash oil, it was rediculously strong weed that would knock anyone off there ass, my friends dad gets it from some bio chemists that he is friends with,
ended up dissociated and all senses screwed up for 1 full year before I fixed it by getting really drunk a lot…don’t asked me how that worked.
Then another year later was the first major episode
I still tried smoking weed again several times in the past couple years it just ain’t for me anymore
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Now that I’m on meds it only leads to sleep or panic not such a great combo for me either right now laying off it for me from here on out