for me a small amount of marijuana reduces my anxiety but if I accidentally take too much I feel like I might go psychotic and my voices act up and I’m not prone to paranoia but I’ll get a little. But mostly I just can’t tell the difference between what’s real or not, just like when I’m psychotic.
Just a reminder to keep discussions about recreational drugs recovery and MI-related. If it’s not clearly related to illness and recovery, don’t post it.
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My symptoms never got worse with weed, it helped with the anxiety I got from symptoms.
And agreed on alcohol! My symptoms get horrible on it
Some people drink to unwind, I drink and unravel
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i Removed my post bc I just read @anon9798425 ‘s post.
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I would most likely go psychotic as soon as I smoked weed. It used to get me so high, higher than LSD and more paranoid.
Everyone is different but weed can get me paranoid and I don’t get any anxiety relief from it.
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“Drugs didn’t cause my SZA; my SZA caused my drug use”
This. This is very important.
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Never thought about it that way. VERY TRUE.
Thank you 
that made me feel good
My friend RIP used to always say “drugs were the solution, not the problem”. He never got to finish his philosophy on a positive note. I would add now “but meds are drugs too…”. He never figured that out, he died of fentanyl OD. He was suffering a lot with depression, I wish someone would have tried and helped him more. Never thought after he asked for advice it’d be the last time I talked to him. He died 2 weeks after that.
Condolences, I lost a few friends back in my using days too. One of the main reasons I stay away
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Isn’t fentanyl for operations? Like to put people to sleep?
Well he was very new to heroin. He had been an opiate user for ten years but he was new to heroin. Like 3 weeks after stopping taking OxyContins and switched to heroin, he got a bad batch with fentanyl and snorted up his nose and died right on the scene.
I’m not sure what it’s used for but it’s used to lace other drugs and it’s not good.
Sadly that’s all to common, he just didn’t know what he was doing. To much to fast. Scary
When I was a kid in the 80s there was the Just Say No campaign and all these public service announcements about how drugs fried your brain. Bc of that I never touched drugs.
Being curious got me to try drugs, the propaganda being all negative made me more curious as to why someone would take them. I know I was self medicating with a lot of my use but I knew where to draw the line at and how to not end up dead.
The right meds take the place of drugs too which is both nice and silly. It’s all chemical reactions in our brains anyway, if my brain functioned “normally” who knows how things would be.
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I found getting my meds right lowered my urge to use
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I wish I could reply to this, I really do, but talking about this sort of thing is something I definitely try to avoid here. Don’t want to trigger anybody who is struggling with drugs that make the condition worse for them.
I used to smoke alot of weed back in the day…
If i smoke it now i literally fall into psychosis…
I was fine up till 18 -19 then something just clicked and bam, madness everytime !!!
I kind of wish i could still smoke.
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I’ve never smoked weed. My brother smoked it from his late teens/early 20s . Over the years he became noticeably more paranoid . In his case things were further complicated by hiv which he’s had for over 25 years . About 4-5 years ago he developed hiv related psychosis. How much of the psychosis was due to years of cannabis and/or the HIV is debatable .
That’s sad @firemonkey.