Preschizophrenia stage of your illness - Self Medication?

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how many people did some kind of self medication like smoking ,drinking or pot just before schizophernia

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I smoked a lot of pot before I became schizophrenic.

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did you have a compulsion like you could not be without it

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ya it was hard not to have it. I always felt like a drug addict with it. I just needed it. It gets better though the longer you go without.

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so did you try the exercises .

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what exercises?

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well last time you said you are going to start excercising with a bike .remember

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we had a converstaion remember

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oh ya…I brought the exercise bike into the house yesterday. I was suppose to start yesterday but I didnt sleep very well so I slept through my exercise time. I plan on exercising today at 11am during the price is right lol

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exercise helps in overcoming some thimes of addictions particularly binge eating possibly due to the release of endorphins

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I just no I need to lose the weight…it has gotten out of hand

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well i meant some types of addictions .but in the end all addictions are related.

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Im going to start out doing 20 minutes twice a day on the exercise bike and then slowly move up to doing 1 hour once a day. Thats the plan anyhow.

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well do you binge eat

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if you do see whther doing exercise at around the time you feel hungry or rather a little before it helps in reducing cravings

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not really…I just pick up weight easily. I think it is a combination of things too much fast food not enough home cooked meals with the right portion size of everything. I am diabetic so I try and watch how many carbs I take in. I also come from a large family so genetics probably has something to do with it.

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jamesrbc our conversations really help motivate me…I just wanted to say thanks for that

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oh its nothing I am studying alternate medicine now and i think there could be something very positive on it .just give me some time.there seems to be some good news on the negative symptoms of schizophernia
like low energy .will let you know shortly

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alot of people in my country have tried alternate medicine and are very happy particularly with negative symptoms like low energy demotivation etc however it is slow unlike drugs which are faster

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glad to be of some help to you .by the way did you get checked for socila anxiety through effexor with your doc.it helped me with social anxiety but had a problem with erections most ssris do that .had to eat a lot of onions to be sexual after that