Like weird thoughts and that
It’s the same as weed or coke I’m freaked out after this illness
You probably shouldn’t be doing any of the above if you have schizophrenia, especially if you’re on meds.
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No. Alcohol makes me tired.
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my dad and I both have sza and alcohol affects us differently, it makes me depressed for my dad is takes him paranoid.
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Alcohol withdrawal can but I haven’t heard of a case of pure drinking causing psychosis…unless its washing your meds out of your system and you’re getting symptoms that way.
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It can if you drink it alcoholically. When I was drinking I would often drink 30 beers in a single day. After several days of that I would get pretty paranoid when I was sobering up. One time I realized, somehow through my brilliant logic, that America and the USSR had pushed the button and gone to nuclear war. I was wondering if it would do any good to crawl under the bed. The missiles were on the way. I never hallucinated due to alcohol, but I’ve gotten very delusional because of it. I think alcohol contributed in part to my sz.
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Alcohol makes me happy and sociable except for the few times I get lonely and depressed. For me what triggers my symptoms is my emotional state. If it’s anything deep seeded and borderline subconscious at an emotional controlling level I instantly start to show symptoms. So for now I just got to sit back and relax until I get more emotional control and understanding so I can slowly take back my mind. So far so good thanks to good meds and effort.
Plain and simple alcohol makes me want to suicide myself. I normally end up in the hospital when I start drinking. Weed i find actually improves a few things about my mood and well being but it makes me completely dumb. Well not completely dumb but the stereotypical “haze”.
Wish I could still smoke weed, last time I tried that I thought I was communicating with the South African government while I was driving my car. Alcohol is dangerous if you have any kind of mental illness. It’s usually when people off themselves they are under the influence of booze. If they ever cure this frickin illness I might go right back to smoking weed though, even though that’s prolly what got me here in the first place.
I think going through alcohol withdrawel is what gives me psychosis that I would not have if I did not drink it.
I get paranoid with booze. Its usually when there is a lot of music and I hear my name being mentioned when its not. Annoying that.
no but it makes me hyper
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Nope, just has normal alcohol effects
You must have spent a long time drinking everyday.
That depends on what you mean by “a long time”. I did my heaviest drinking in the army. There were times where I drank so much I went into a blackout and did all kinds of crazy stuff. It can be very embarrassing to find out what you did when you were drunk the night before. There are alcoholics who can maintain a productive life while drinking. Some of them even start their own businesses. What happens with them is that they end up drinking a half gallon of liquor a day, and then their doctor tells them they’ve got to sober up or die, and sobering up is hellacious for them. I learned all this ■■■■in AA. I went there for a while. There’s one thing about my drinking. It’s the damnedest thing. When they put me on the Haldol shot it changed my body chemistry in regard to alcohol. It cut how much I can drink in a day by more than half. Also, alcohol doesn’t feel as good to me as it did before I got the Haldol depot shot. I can still get drunk enough to go into a blackout, though. Back before I got the Haldol shot alcohol could have an almost narcotic effect on me when I was between my second and eleventh beer. It felt stupendous. I don’t get that any more. It still feels good, just not as good as it did.
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I don’t feel any different from drinking alcohol. But if I have a night out drinking heavily (which is rare), I will not take my Largactil that night. Not a good idea to do regularly I know.