anyone got they first symptoms from marijuana abuse? For me the problem was that i liked it,too much and got hooked, after 3months of everyday smoking i got depressed, and when i quit it i was ok and clean for about 5months,but probably the damage was done and huge anxiety began, followed by other sympotoms.
Now im clean for about 3years from anything, trying to live a healthy life, but things getting worse gradually… especially my cognitive symptoms and paranoia. Im always been slightly paranoid, but lately had to change my job because i thought my boss is involved with russian mafia and planing to sell me for organs. It was very tiring because everyday in job was full of anxiety and tension, i was constantly looking over my shoulder…
there’s a lot of other things but i would like to hear your experience with weed. Is it possible that weed is guilty for my symptoms? I told my father once about weed and it was my biggest mistake cause now he blames me for smoking it and lokking at me like im a junkie… he thinks that all my mental problems is because of it.
What you think? Is it possible that its only a very long withdrowal? or maybe it damaged my brain?
No. Insight is rare but your struggling. Marijuana will bring out psychotic symptoms but you say you’ve been off it for a while…that is the danger sign.
Loss of function is key. It’s not normal to be paranoid. Yeah if your still on pot stop! But if your not then get some help.
Early intervention with the appropriate medications leads to the better outcomes. Be honest and get some help.
There is no chance that it is withdrawal. Weed withdrawals are mild and will last for a few weeks at most. I’ve not read any good supporting evidence that it can directly damage your brain, but it can probably trigger schizophrenia that would have otherwise come at a later point in your life. Are you seeing a doctor? Are you taking medication?
I think marijuana could have been a factor in your psychosis. Then again, maybe not. Personally, I was addicted to alcohol. Marijuana made me really spacey, and I didn’t like the way it made me feel. Don’t get me wrong - I don’t consider marijuana as more dangerous than alcohol. Every year we lose tens of thousands of lives on our highways due to drunk driving. Marijuana isn’t harmless, but you’re not nearly as apt to blast down the highway at a hundred miles an hour on weed. I found weed to be disruptive to my sane consciousness, but I found those effects temporary. However, sometimes some kind of chemical can kick off a destructive process in the brain. When I was seven years old I drank a coke a couple of hours before bedtime, and because of that coke I couldn’t sleep that night, and I’ve had terrible insomnia ever since. Granted, I consume a lot of caffeine now, but when I was young I didn’t consume any of that until I was seventeen years old, so that was ten years of insomnia with no caffeine in my system. These days I consume large amounts of caffeine.
But what about cognitive deficits? Does memory problems disapear with stoping weed? I cant focus or remember anything, or sometimes i feel like my brain is foggy, but only because it works so fast, that i cant keep up,its like im the spectator and my counciousnes is the engine that does every operation, its hard to explain…
I feel like you, like I’m thinking on my feet but at the same time taking only baby steps. It really sucks not to be able to access the full extent of our cognition.
Yes. I read a literature review + metaanalysis a few years ago that said after 3-4 weeks, the cognitive effects of smoking weed are not detectable anymore. For you, with the duration you’ve been clean, I have no doubt that the problems you are experiencing are not lingering effects of your weed addiction. I was addicted to weed for 10 years, and the cognitive effects went away pretty quickly after I quit.
Psychosis very often involves problems with memory, with focus and attention, with feeling your brain is ‘foggy’, having racing thoughts, like you described, and more. If you’re not seeing a doctor for this, I would urge you to schedule an appointment with one. It is critical that you get a diagnosis so you can know if it’s a mental illness or something physiological, and get the right treatment so you can recover.
yes its strange, i started to notice every small detail in everything that happens around me, and give it a meaning… but other side of me trying to rationalize everything, its like intrusive thought with some detail, and i trying to say no, it cant be it, he cant kill you just like that, its not 80s anymore, it would be very hard for him to hide everything, and other thought says but what if it is, what if he’s just waiting for a better moment? or maybe he knows my father and wants to revenge him for something by harming me? and its a constant conversation in my mind, about those little things i notice, when i can find evidence that im wrong about this or that, i calm down, till i notice something else…
Its three years that im not on pot anymore, docs diagnosed me with psychotic depression at the time, but iwas not depressed actually, so they changed it to some personality disorder, and put me on antypsychotics, when i got of hospital, never seen my doc since. iwas taking seroquel only because i wasnt able to sleep, but decided to quit because of side effects, im writing so long that i forgot the point what i meant
I think i wanted to say that maybe weed began the ilness but antypsychotics stopped it before exploding? I stopped taking them about one year ago, is it possible that low dose of 50mg seroquel stopped or delayed it and now it restarted?
Im afraid that they put diagnosis on me and take aways my drivers license cause now they left me only with personality disorder, but if i get depression or sz they take it away and i dont know, if things get really bad i will see doc, but right know when i changed my job those thoughts dissapeared, almost, so maybe its not that bad?
Im SZ and I still have my drivers license. Ive never heard of anyone losing their drivers license over a diagnosis of SZ or depression. But, just a thought, going untreated could make you dangerous on the road and I could see a drivers license getting revoked for that. Whereas if you get treated for possible SZ and take your meds and are stable then theres no reason to think your driving would be impaired. So again, talking to a pdoc about your paranoia is very important because what if you do have SZ (and dont talk to a pdoc) and become more delusional and become dangerous on the road because youre not on meds…
sorry i didnt mentioned, i was talking about truck license, i put a lot of effort to get it…
But what if im not? And i lose it for nothing maybe ill wait and see if it progress, cause right now i dont have these thoughts, so maybe its just was false alarm
maybe ill wait and see if it progress, cause right now i dont have these thoughts, so maybe its just was false alarm