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WarChild

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Hi all

So being the invincible teenager I was (thought I was) I smoked a mountain of weed from the age of 15 to the age of 18. We're talking a smoke before school, a smoke at lunch, a smoke after school and a smoke before bed. For 3 years. At the end of those three years I had a severe psychotic breakdown in which i developed an INTRICATE fantasy world where my enemies (including my parents) wanted to kill me. I would often hallucinate them at my window shouting at me, stealing my parent's car, etc. Bad. The worst of it lasted about two years before i got put on a drug actually appropriate to my condition (was mis-diagnosed for 2 years)

So here I am 18 years later and I am still on medication, and i still have psychotic episodes occasionally, allthough they are now controlled VERY well by my anti-psychotic drug Clozapine. But i've been through 20 or so other drugs, none of which were satisfactory for a whole range of reasons.

Its looking like i'll be on clozapine for life. I've tried coming off 4 times and its ended badly every time, and i've found myself back on my stable dose. Its not the end of the world.. a lot of people need a medication of some sort. It has annoying side effects, but hey, it works.

It was the weed that sparked the illness. I have mental illness in my family, so i was pre-disposed, but the weed brought it to the surface.

I implore everyone - if you are starting to notice yourself getting increasingly paranoid when you're stoned, FUCKING STOP! Because thats what happened to me, and i ignored it, and shit REALLY hit the fan. If you stop now you may be saving yourself from a complete breakdown further down the track.

Has anyone else developed a psychotic illness from smoking marijuana? Especially one that is life long?

WC
 
It was the weed that sparked the illness. I have mental illness in my family, so i was pre-disposed, but the weed brought it to the surface.
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That's probably the biggest risk with weed. It will most def is the catalyst for all of psychoses expressing themselves. Whether or not that psychosis would have surfaced if you didn't smoke weed is still being studied. Psychosis usually surfaces around the same time most people start smoking weed.

I know a lot of people that have mental abnormalities in their family and nothing happened when they were stoners. I also know people with no mental abnormalities in their family who went straight up nuts within a year of smoking weed. This particular subject requires far more research as it is probably the most dangerous risk associated with cannabinoids.
 
WarChild said:
Hi all

So being the invincible teenager I was (thought I was) I smoked a mountain of weed from the age of 15 to the age of 18. We're talking a smoke before school, a smoke at lunch, a smoke after school and a smoke before bed. For 3 years. At the end of those three years I had a severe psychotic breakdown in which i developed an INTRICATE fantasy world where my enemies (including my parents) wanted to kill me. I would often hallucinate them at my window shouting at me, stealing my parent's car, etc. Bad. The worst of it lasted about two years before i got put on a drug actually appropriate to my condition (was mis-diagnosed for 2 years)

So here I am 18 years later and I am still on medication, and i still have psychotic episodes occasionally, allthough they are now controlled VERY well by my anti-psychotic drug Clozapine. But i've been through 20 or so other drugs, none of which were satisfactory for a whole range of reasons.

Its looking like i'll be on clozapine for life. I've tried coming off 4 times and its ended badly every time, and i've found myself back on my stable dose. Its not the end of the world.. a lot of people need a medication of some sort. It has annoying side effects, but hey, it works.

It was the weed that sparked the illness. I have mental illness in my family, so i was pre-disposed, but the weed brought it to the surface.

I implore everyone - if you are starting to notice yourself getting increasingly paranoid when you're stoned, FUCKING STOP! Because thats what happened to me, and i ignored it, and shit REALLY hit the fan. If you stop now you may be saving yourself from a complete breakdown further down the track.

Has anyone else developed a psychotic illness from smoking marijuana? Especially one that is life long?

WC
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I feel for you brother I really do. We are of a similar age & whilst I grew up in Sydney the weed culture is the same. You started smoking bush buds mostly with indoor hydro as an occasional score am I right? Most of the bud I smoked was like that until the hydro took over in the mid 90's. A number of friends "lost it" around that period & some changed permanently. Sorry it happened but I am glad you have your condition manageable these days.
 
The fact of the matter is, is that you can abuse a fork. Your mental illnesses were not provoked by marijuana use, but by marijuana Abuse. That is to my belief anyway.
 
I see a lot of people blame weed for bringing out underlying mental illnesses, in particular shizophrenia, however who is to say you wouldn't have developped it without ever smoking weed at all? A lot of people who eventually end up developping a mental illness do so around the same age as you did, 15-25 is typically the time, obviously people who are predisposed have a higher risker.

I'm not saying weed didn't bring out the underlying illness but I am not saying it did either... I always been split on this topic.
 
Same here, except my psychosis is a bit different. I smoked shit loads of bud from 14-18. Then after having a bad trip on acid, and smoking shit loads right after, any time I smoked it brought the same feeling back.
It's happening a lot less lately since quitting, but I get this rush through my body every once in awhile, where I feel like I'm going too die. It's hard too explain, but it almost feels like you're going too slip out of reality, while simultaneously not being able too breathe, and your body is just being ripped apart. It sounds insane, but you almost can't describe the feeling.
 
I had severe psychosis for over 2 years after smoking weed. it didn't help that I was watching a lot of conspiracy theory stuff at the time.
It got so bad I was going to set myself on fire so I would be on the news as a martyr.
thankfully I live in a country that doesn't execute crazy people and has a decent health care system.

I spent several months in a hospital after 2 more mental breakdowns. Even though I am out now I rarely leave the house and have lost contact with all my friends due to manic paranoia and schizophrenia.

It definitely wouldn't have happened if I never smoked weed to begin with. Although underlying conditions were making me depressed and anxious I was no where near as depressed as I am now.

I've begun researching nutrition and vitamins. Apparently niacin (vitamin B3) is excellent at treating schizophrenia and depression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9cg4454mYA
 
Paranoia is not necessarily a symptom that you're going to develop psychosis from cannabis. People who are new to the high often have heightened vigilance because it's a new experience and they are unsure of their personal safety. Anywhere that anxiety goes, paranoia tends to follow.

It's hard to pinpoint exact signs that cannabis is going to cause psychosis from having it a single time. It would be more apt to say that if your family has obvious mental illness and you suspect that you have preliminary signs as well, that you should avoid mind altering substances or approach them with extremely light use until you understand their potential.
 
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