psy_taco said:
Also, the main time people develop schizophrenia is between 15-25 so considering your only 20 your definately not out of the woods yet.
Anyway mate, take care of yourself and remember that drug use is not worth developin schizophrenia for.
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What he said Munchee
I worked as a psychiatric Nurse for 3 years dealing mostly with patients with treatment resistant schizophrenia. The vast majority of them had their latent condition triggered in their late teens/early 20's.
I can't provide references but it is generally regarded as fact among mental healt professionals that the earlier in life you have a psycotic episode, the worse your prognosis and that is defiently my experience.
As for pot, I remember this one time in particular working with this young schizoaffective woman. She had been admitted to an acute psych ward floridly psychotic and put into semi isolation with one on one care, I can't remember what precipitated her admission but I do remember she deterated further in our care and had to be put into an isolation room cos she was so out of control where she painted the walls with shit and mastubated openly.
Over the next few weeks she gradually improved and was put back into the general ward. She said to me then that all she could think about was how she was behaving in front of this cute guy (me %) )but she couldn't stop herself.
Then after a few days she had a few drags of a joint another patient smuggled in and BANG! Right back to the begining, absolutely acutely psychotic.
Pot and mental illness either don't mix or go hand in hand whichever way you look at it.
I have had big problems with addiction to pot myself, knowing it fucks me up but being very much attracted to it for it's mind expanding effects (in hindesight I think it puts me into a low grade manic state) and the last time I relapsed definetly had some psychotic symtoms such as thinking all my friends hated me.
Nasty
As for my comments about fish oil; The Brain is basicly a fatty organ and never in history has our diet consisted of so many omega 6 fatty acids and so few omega 3. Some belive this is changing the way our brain funtions making us more predisposed to mental illness. You really are what you eat