Pot and Schizophrenia: A Dangerous Mix? - Schizophrenia Update

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I will share my story here. As you know I had a THC abuse problem. My husband described it as I didn’t just want to feel nice and relaxed and giggly-I wanted to be high out of my mind. Ie dissociated from my life. It was not good. I was using it to try to medicate my depression and anxiety as well as my nightmares.

I ended up on an extremely high dose of edibles, around 2000 mg up to twice a day. I was extremely, massively psychotic due to it. I thought I was the female creator goddess and was undergoing the apocalypse. I would quit and I would stop experiencing the psychosis…but I thought it meant I was losing my spiritual senses, so I would go back on and the psychosis would start again.

Magic mushrooms had the same effect on me. I actually only minimally hallucinated on them but they threw me hard into the psychosis.

I wouldn’t recommend either of these substances for people prone to psychosis. Not at all.

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Had my first psychotic experience on hash/THC, regret doing it. Actually experienceS, a good amount of them, but was drawn towards it cause at the same time, it was fascinating, until the trip turns bad ofc.

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It definitely disturbs parts of the brain you’d rather not do that to

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I agree that hash and weed are mind altering drugs. :confounded_face:

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I had been consuming high levels of cannabis starting from 15 years old onwards. I’ve quit it for 10 years now. I’m sure my condition was triggered by my cannabis use. :gem: :unicorn:

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The first 2 years of high school, I would smoke pot and feel perfectly fine and have a great time. The last 2 years of high school, I would smoke and get panic attacks and paranoia and delusions. THC isn’t for me.

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Yeah, on the rare times that I smoked another joint the same thing would happen. Extreme Paranoia. I would end up flushing all the drugs in the toilet. :innocent:

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I can’t do thc. Figured that out a while ago. I think it’s funny that there are people, even some mentally ill I know, that think weed is the cure for everything. The couple chances I gave it recently had me in my living room, blinds closed, riding it out. It’s a horrible experience. It seems so harmless to everyone else.

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I honestly dont know. I dont smoke pot or drink or do any drugs whatsoever besides nicotine and caffeine. I’m an angel :innocent: :laughing:

I smoked pot in my youth but had very little in the years prior to developing schizophrenia, though. Im sure there is probably a link though. My guess is that it is probably just a trigger like a million other triggers out there. You likely have to have the predisposition for developing it for pot to set you off. I know multiple people that have smoked it their entire lives and havent developed sz.

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I quit it too after smoking it heavily for years.

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