pupnik
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You mention epigenetic or genetic predisposition while dissing on the imprecision of psychological consideration of the relationship of cannabis to psychosis - which has never actually been observed with a chemical diagnostic test, so I must ask you....
9.) And finally, your experience seems very common. You did, after all, ingest a psychedelic drug. 'Psychedelic' , mind you, is synonymous with 'psychotomimetic', which means 'psychosis mimicking'.
why attribute anything to genetic or epigenetic hoohaw when a chemical or set of proteins is not clearly involved? It does not make sense.
I think the cynicism put to this is unwarranted, but fair in general with regard to psychology, and psychiatry at this stage.
However, reviewing the psychotic symptom details and correlating the common factors may yield some interesting patterns that can help clarify what is going on within the person's mind.
the term Psychotomimetic was introduced for psychedelics as Doctors hoped that in mimicking some aspects of psychosis, psychedelics can be used to help understand psychosis.
This goes both ways - especially if psychotic behavior can be learned - i.e. subjects may learn how to become psychotic while under the influence and may resort to the type of experience or behavior as a viable response to stimulus.
Where genetics is suspected (i.e. psychosis running in families) please note that after observing some family member being mad or insane in some way, a child may repeat the sequence in mind - puzzling through the experience, and may actually develop the ability to bring it on, with or without the agency of cannabis. This need not involve any particular abnormality in genes or epigenetics, as it is behavioral, and normal to observe, experience, learn, and conditionally express the pattern.