My brother smoked weed throughout his early teens and I didn’t. I got schizophrenia and he didn’t. He never had an issue with weed then stopped smoking. I think it helped prevent him from getting worsened bipolar or psychosis, he’s never had any mental health issues. After I started smoking weed a lot of the anxiety, nervousness, and trauma went away. I kept smoking because I felt it was relieving my stress and helping me combat symptoms. It causes a prolonged sense of calm for me. It’s more socially acceptable. I’m not addicted and usually don’t pay for it, but I could go for months and be ok. I just wonder if I should start smoking medical marijuana versus recreational because when I vape medicale marijuana it’s the best. It really boosts my stamina and fights my depression too. It’s the only thing that works for me and I haven’t been having psychosis as bad since I started smoking pot.
“People who started younger appeared to show more protective effects –
stronger connectivity and integrity in their white matter. But the
longer the person used the drug, those features began to erode. After
about six or seven years of use, connectivity and integrity begin to
erode.”
CBD found in cannabis is proving to be beneficial with certain aspects of Psychosis and anxiety- pharmaceutical companies are in the process of making antipsychotics from CBD.
With that said THC found in weed is a trigger for psychosis- it can destabilize.
I wouldn’t smoke weed though
I smoked the stuff from age twelve up and managed to become the school weed dealer by the time I was fifteen. Needed the income to finance my own supply because I smoked like a chimney (pot puffing) at that point. Weed didn’t do a damn thing for preventing my SZ.
You’re on a slippery slope. Weed does help certain mental illnesses, but is proven to make psychosis worse. It may not make it worse while you’re stoned, but when the effects wear off it has been proven to make psychosis worse. I stopped smoking last February and since then I have not seen the demon girl. She first appeared to me after I got stoned. My other demon is still here, but the girl majorly creeps me out and I am so glad she’s gone. Do some more research and you’ll find that weed is not really good for you.
I’ve never heard that premise before. If it was true, you would think everybody would have heard of it. I never hear anybody say that. I only hear the opposite.
I smoked marijuana occasionally to regularly/heavily throughout my teens and though I can’t say it ever caused anything akin to psychosis I still developed some form of schizophrenia in my 20’s. I think it all comes down to who we are as individuals really. They say THC can trigger psychosis…it has never done so to me but for me to then say that because it doesn’t happen to me that it is not true for others would be wrong.
Pot makes me really paranoid. I live at home with my parents and I cant stand to be around them, because of the paranoia, when I am high. That is why I am trying to quit. It’s just hard because the only friend I have is a pot head and all he wants to do is smoke when I see him.
Just for the record, I am opposed to smoking marijuana in any form - I am interested in what major player pharmaceutical companies want to do with CBD - especially for schizophrenia, bipolar etc…
I am pretty sure that GW Pharmaceuticals is in the process of conducting phase 2 trials with CBD for psychosis - schizophrenia. The side effects are way less than standard antipsychotics - we shall see.
My brother who has a big position for a major pharmaceutical company told me that many of the pharmaceutical companies are very interested in CBD - I will wait for the new meds to come out - NOT smoking weed!
Weed sometimes has adverse effects on me. I get into negative and looping thoughts. These looping thoughts get way out there and “deep” and then I connect it somehow negatively to myself. It doesn’t do that all the time though, and by continuing smoking I find that I am learning to control my thoughts a little more and redirect when I get into those negative thoughts. Sometimes they just take hold though and that sucks. Not sure if its a good or bad thing for me so I can’t really say for others.
I wonder how one gets into smoking cannabis/doing other illegal drugs. I’m guessing peer pressure plays a part but then you would have to be part of a definite social network,know people who know where to get the dope from.
If you were without friends, and on your own socially as I was , then that peer pressure through social interaction is minimised to a large extent.
The only thing I tried, while living with my parents, was cough medicine as a fellow patient said it gave him a high and I was curious. Apart from making me see a few strange shapes it did nothing , certainly didn’t induce a sense of euphoria. The experiment stopped there.
I think if there had been the social network it might have been different as my family loads quite high for addiction- drinking and smoking.
I don’t do any other drugs at all. I do have a bunch of friends who smoke weed so it’s hard to quit. I don’t have to smoke, they don’t pressure me to. I do enjoy it occasionally, I don’t smoke every day and getting euphoric is fun, plus sometimes it heightens my senses while other times it makes me numb and paranoid. It’s unpredictable, but over time it has affected my memory adversely possibly, and it has made me hallucinate a couple times. I don’t get as paranoid as when I started, but if I smoke a lot I’ll just want to be alone or fall asleep, or it can cause panic feelings.
I can’t be certain if it has helped or prevented worsened psychosis. I know my brother stopped out of fear it would bring out symptoms or mental illness. That’s very responsible of him. He’s doing better since he quit, except now I think he drinks when he parties instead of smokes. See, I don’t drink alcohol or do drugs other than an occasional few hits of weed. I find that fine and normal, even with my mental illness.
I have no real reason to quit unless there were risks. I feel that over time it has made me more relaxed and happier plus socially intuitive. I just need to cut back.
I mean CBD could be beneficial - but weed containing THC does a lot of damage