Bob starts smoking marijuana. A month later bob is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Now a parent might put 2 and 2 together and say bob only got schizophrenia because marijuana use, and not because of his genetics and familial communication issues. so a burden is lifted off the family and they will go their whole lives believing it’s drugs.
But this is not the case. Otherwise California would have a schizophrenia epidemic.
And now they are putting criminals into psychiatric hospitals, and schizophrenics into prisons!
I’m learning a lot and feel compelled to post it and share it with you guys
My moms friend is like this " it’s the weeds fault!"
No maybe you didn’t pay close enough to your sons symptoms so he turned to smoking marijuana. And then it made it worse. So now the whole burden is lifted off her. We can’t blame families for our genetics, for their confusion, but they can’t blame the drugs either for us coming down with sz.
I can smoke…without triggering myself…but since i got did from stress and ptsd…i think it treats my body before it messes with the head…so im lucky i guess…i feel more even after i smoke…and my ap is making me feel so sick…it helps…but i know not many of us can take it…
smoking helps me medically with my stomach, but mentally it’s kind of a toll. it makes my negative symptoms worse. I don’t ever go long without smoking, bc I can’t.
I’m not sure how different my mental state would be if I didn’t smoke.
For 17 years i would smoke all day every day, never a minute i wasnt stoned for the most part. It helped me cope before i was dx’d and medicated, because my parents were either too ignorant or too scared to have me seen by a pdoc when i was 15 or 16. Now 31 and Havent smoked in 3 months and i feel my head is clearer able to see things better about myself, and thus my insight has grown tremendously. But god i miss toking on my bowl. Had to quit for legal reasons and ironically enough can legaly smoke again on 4/20 and cant wait. Feel like just a few hits would calm the anxiety and put me in a place of peace. Ill try and just meditate for now but damn i miss the smell, taste, culture, and process so much.
I know when I went on probation, when I came off, I smoked again, but wasn’t addicted anymore. Didn’t longer have the desire to do it all day every day.
First couple months on probation were hard! But I’m glad I never went back to nonstop toking
17 years still cant believe the cloud i existed in. I couldnt function before without weed. First thing every morning, last thing every night. It was my meds before i was on meds. Now free from my addiction of delusion rather than then the drug itself in which most people would believe i was addicted to. Props to you @turningthepage sober by choice. Trying to get there, but among my lust for green i have a few other vices as well. Just seem to replace one vice with another but now on probation its increasingly more detrimental to not be sober. Heres to trying my best and shedding one vice at a time.
Torn between wanting right and doing what is wrong.
Ive held it tight with all my might my god its been so long.
You know, we should really transcend the ‘what caused it’ approach. Either way it happened. Focus on how you were destined to live life instead, hopefully that’s a bearable thought
