What is the Link Between Cannabis and Psychiatric Diagnoses?

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“Cannaholic” maybe :thinking:

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I just know weed makes my paranoia worse

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Doesn’t cannabis makes you peaceful and you refuse fighting ? I think that why it’s not liked in the army.

Some people have a gene that triggers paranoia when using cannabis.

This is separate to sz, but rather some people are ‘allergic’ to it, so to speak genetically.

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I tried pot in college. I think it was my first time. I got substance induced psychosis or schizophrenia from it, but it probably would have happened later on in life anyways if I didn’t smoke it.

I think it’s a combination of environmental and genetics. I was stressed out in college and I had a paranoid reaction to it. It really never went away. I had like 1-2 weeks where I felt better afterwards, but it eventually became permanent. I’m disabled. It was my choice, and I cannot change the past, but sort of regret it. I tried salvia too, but I couldn’t find any studies saying salvia causes schizophrenia. I think salvia is worse and I regret trying it.

For me, pot caused schizophrenia or triggered it. It doesn’t happen to everyone and might be a rare event.

I haven’t smoked pot in over 11 years. I don’t even drink alcohol anymore. I don’t like it.

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I became hyper-aware of my reality and self. Like thinking about thinking and simulation theory, ego loss, and a bad trip, I guess. I wasn’t a heavy user at all.

I became aware of my self and my thoughts and sentience. It was really strange and I panicked and became dissociated.

It was weird.

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Up to 43% of people with schizophrenia develop a cannabis use disorder (CUD) (10–13) compared to 6.3% in the general population (14).

Among psychotic/ schizophrenia patients, 16% currently use cannabis, and 27% have a history of use in their lifetime [15].Jul 21, 2020

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pot smoking and street acid in the seventies only made it ascerbate the time that I finally got sz…if I hadn’t done the drugs I would have been even more late onset than I did…and it was 35 before I got full blown psychosis…my pdoc I loved that died told me about it not causing it but ascerbating the illness.

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I only had about 10 hits of weed before I was diagnosed.

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I spent 6 years on dope! It ruined me

But came out the other side

It was ages 12 to 18 and I completely over did it

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I mean now it’s legalized in my state. If these studies are legit. They need to put a disclaimer on the packaging.

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I was already traumatized coming into my teenage years, I am glad there was cannabis I could use to cope at our dysfunctional home at the time. I am misdiagnosed I have PTST I guess.