I am interested to hear everyones oppinion. Do you think that the use of street drugs and/or alcohol can cause schizophrenia and/or trigger it? Or do you think that people with schizophrenia are more likely to use drugs durring the early stages of their disease when the symptoms are less obvious?
Personally, I heavily abused street drugs and alcohol in my youth, however, i feel like my symptoms began before my addictions and that i was using substances to numb and ignore the symptoms. I have a hoast of other health issues that seem to be connect to my schizophrenia that were arpund well before any drug or alcohol use.
However, i often get down thinking maybe if i had not been such a wild child that i wouldnt be sick now… I think my loved ones blame my use as well.
Yes. They can cause or trigger it. It’s a combination of genetic and environmental factors. I guess schizophrenia can start in the womb. I was always different, even before I got sick.
many people with schizophrenia or psychoses have a chronic feeling of discontent. Which makes them switch to certain substances sooner.
I’m not talking about people who just get a psychosis because something is not going well. But the people who grasp substances do not feel right and know that the drugs make them feel better.
Partly because of such people, the course studies are negative. Every time they get a psychosis and when they recover from them they grab back to the drugs. In this way they come into a vicious circle where they are not able to get out of it.
The course studies will be much better if:
| people no longer abuse drugs
| let people treat them and stay true to antipsychotics
| Do not fall back into relapse after abuse
The fallback percentage is currently at 80% within 5 years. I almost dare to say with certainty that it can even reach 65% when people stop using drugs and alcohol.
Those people who are having a hard time are probably placed in another diagnostic box. But no psychosis or schizophrenia.
…I can’t take it, so I don’t remind them Ive taken drugs…hopefully the ones Ive told ages ago have forgotten too. I feel regret at taken drugs n alcohol cos I reckon it could have triggered my psychosis cos Im predisposed from family background
yes according to me drugs and alchol and also smoking can take you to an altered ste of consiusnes and also some types of meditaion(not all) and also hypnotism .they are triggers and aggravators of schizophrenia causes are genetics and stress
Yes, drugs definitely triggered my psychosis last year. A buddy and me smoked a lot and during watching a movie, I thought that the protagonist’s story was all about me.
Later on I felt high for almost 2 months.
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