Thenightwatch, Schizophrenia isn't a temporary condition like you're talking about. What you're talking about are points of your life in which you led an unhealthy lifestyle with an equally unhealthy mentality. That would/could make anyone show symptoms of psychosis. Lack of sleep alone can cause delusional behavior.
You don't even know what Schizophrenia is, and yet you're trying to tell my boyfriend he doesn't have it. Anti psychotics don't cause psychosis. They treat and prevent it. Hence the "anti". People don't just randomly show up at the doctor and say "Hey doc, give me anti psychotics please!" then show up a week later all jacked up like a looney tune. It's the other way around. People end up in the hospital because they have an episode. Not always drug induced ones either. Only then are they given medication. Different anti-psychs work better on different people, because Schizophrenia doesn't affect everyone the same. Zyprexa and Abilify were what worked for my boyfriend. Seroquel did not. But then again, I've never heard anything good about Seroquel, so I'm not surprised.
Like IamMe90 says, it becomes more than just a simple matter of opinion when you start spouting out dangerous notions that could put someone's life at stake. That's what you're not understanding. Paranoid Schizophrenics are commonly easily swayed to denial about their condition. Especially, because they have... well, paranoid tenancies. In other words, it sometimes only takes one person to say "Your doctors are lying to you" for them to want to believe it. Does that make sense? That's why I told you not to say something stupid like that ever again. You're causing more damage than you know.
Websites like
http://www.schizophrenia.com/diag.php will explain it better than I can.
Honestly, your symptoms (I'm guessing, so don't chew me out for "assuming") probably weren't as bad as a true Schizophrenics. Some people do remain undiagnosed, especially those without family or friends (common, considering the illness makes you antisocial as fuck) who aren't around to notice the drastic changes. But yeah, for the most part, if you had Schizophrenia, you'd likely still be having symptoms of some kind (perhaps on again, off again) and would have likely been dragged to the hospital by your loved ones and diagnosed by now.
As for Marijuana not provoking Schizophrenic symptoms... well, that's up for debate some other I guess. I'm not going to argue with you, simply because it's pointless to.
somehow given that wadsworth is on this forum and has done drugs herself I don't think she is just taking the face value opinion of her boyfriend's doctor, I think she has clear reason, especially if you read her posts in this thread, to believe that psychs are NOT for her boyfriend.
Exactly! Thank you. I'm not ignorant. I don't believe everything I hear about drugs, or I probably wouldn't have done them xD. I do my research. Partly because I'm obsessively well-informed and paranoid, and partly because I find it all insanely interesting.
that dude though. and i'm pretty sure that if he does low doses of shrooms while hanging out with wadsworth once in awhile then things probably won't get out of hand...
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
Very petty.
