rofl did you diagnose yourself? trust me dude if you had any slight amount of shizo, you'd know 100 percent for certain. shizo isn't just corner of your eye hallucinations, or hearing occasional voices
i wish i had the DSM IV-TR with me to explain how to diagnose schizo and show you how far you are to the cluster symptom that makes up the disease. Theres a LOT of things you need to score on to be diagnosed.
Schizophrenia is not being able to distinguish between hallucination and reality. You can, thus probably don't have schizophrenia. If you're delusional and can't distinguish reality from hallucination, that's another thing. I've been there myself, you'll know if you're there dude. Or rather you won't. Something like that. The sanity in between the crazy will tip you off. Or something i don't know, i'm kinda drunk take anything i say with a grain of salt. Luckily for me, my psychotic tendencies are mild and have, for now, dissipated.
somebody go get foodstuffs so he can tell us what its like
i have a neighbor who is schizo he could tell you what its like
relevant:[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2gqoU2w_rY[/media]
skip to 4:20
thats why i prefer to smoke kush harvested late, much better THC to CBD ratio
my jaw fell off my head when they walked into the growing room
My dick flew off my pants in a boner when i saw the grow room.
You greening out (puking) has nothing to do with early onset schizophrenia. It's a pretty common occurrence with people who can't handle being really high.
Also, CBD is a pretty decent anti-psychotic, so you might actually be better off continuing smoking weed, as studies on marijuana's link to early onset schizophrenia are largely inconclusive. You're basing your decision on a very large lack of research and a few shitty, biased studies.
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;31352642]You greening out (puking) has nothing to do with early onset schizophrenia. It's a pretty common occurrence with people who can't handle being really high.
Also, CBD is a pretty decent anti-psychotic, so you might actually be better off continuing smoking weed, as studies on marijuana's link to early onset schizophrenia are largely inconclusive. You're basing your decision on a very large lack of research and a few shitty, biased studies.[/QUOTE]
but it's better to be safe than sorry
[QUOTE=confinedUser;31354513]but it's better to be safe than sorry[/QUOTE]
Unless he's starting to develop schizo naturally and marijuana could help prevent/slow it.
[QUOTE=Tukimoshi;31354707]Unless he's starting to develop schizo naturally and marijuana could help prevent/slow it.[/QUOTE]
weed is a psychoactive there is no way it's going to slow down the progression of schizo. Now OP it's possible you could of pulled a whitey
[QUOTE=confinedUser;31354808]weed is a psychoactive there is no way it's going to slow down the progression of schizo. Now OP it's possible you could of pulled a whitey[/QUOTE]
Except for the known fact that CBD is an anti-psychotic.
[QUOTE=confinedUser;31354808]weed is a psychoactive there is no way it's going to slow down the progression of schizo. Now OP it's possible you could of pulled a whitey[/QUOTE]
maybe you should read the article i posted
[url]http://www.alternet.org/drugs/151776/debunking_the_myth_of_a_link_between_marijuana_and_mental_illness[/url]
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;31352642]You greening out (puking) has nothing to do with early onset schizophrenia. It's a pretty common occurrence with people who can't handle being really high.[/QUOTE]
Oh I know, I just kind of took that as a sign, that was my last time smoking marijuana and that happened, seemed as if my body was telling me something, if you know what I mean.
And thanks again for all the feedback and links and stuff guys. I know it's not 100% proven, some studies are biased etc, but I still would rather not risk it. Because if one of them's right, I'm screwed.
I'd rather not smoke weed again, then get Schizophrenia. It sucks majorly, but again, I don't want to risk it.
[editline]27th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mac2468;31359995]maybe you should read the article i posted
[url]http://www.alternet.org/drugs/151776/debunking_the_myth_of_a_link_between_marijuana_and_mental_illness[/url][/QUOTE]
Great link man, makes me feel alot better that I haven't already fucked myself over. But again, I'm going to stay sober for the for seeable future. I'm going to play the safe side, even if the safe side is lame.
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;31359635]Except for the known fact that CBD is an anti-psychotic.[/QUOTE]
CBD sure but THC no
Well here's why you can rest easy. My brother had a psychotic episode because of some "strong" (he said) or laced shit, and is all paranoid and freaked out that he fucked up his brain. He's not fucked, he just thought he was. But anywho, my mother is also really bad with pot. She smoked it once, said she hated it.
My dad and I, on the other hand, can smoke as much pot as we like and have no bad effects. If you've been smoking pot for 3 years now and haven't had an episode, you're fine. Doctors said that exact thing to me when my parents and I asked them about it. Exact same gene pool, but my brother gets the bad response to pot, not me.
You're doing what my brother did. If you LOOK for symptoms of schizophrenia in every day life, you're going to find them. Everyday things like miss-seeing something or hearing something odd will be misconstrued by you because you think you might have schizophrenia, and you assume that "oh, that must have been me freaking out cause of my schizo".
tl;dr
After 3 years you'd know if it brought out schizo, relax, take a toke, realize you'll be ok
I heard psychedelics are good for the treatment of Schizophrenia.
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;31375164]I heard psychedelics are good for the treatment of Schizophrenia.[/QUOTE]
taking something like that is probably the worst thing you can take if you have schizo. You might as well be giving up and saying, here you go, this will put you over the edge and make all your delusions and hallucinations come true.
You're a strong man, OP.
"I'll hear people call my name, but no one did. Ask someone to repeat what they said, and they didn't say anything." Wtf that might mean you have schizophrenia? I have had that for a long time. I also hear my dad's cough when he's not even home.... I thought those were just echos of things your brain is used to hearing..
ITT: Hypochondriacs
[QUOTE=confinedUser;31322071]i used to be schizo but i luckily recovered
[editline]25th July 2011[/editline]
and schizophrenia is on my fathers side but he doesn't have it nor do i anymore[/QUOTE]
I was actually unaware that schizophrenia was curable, rated informative.
i dont think you can "cure" schizophrenia rather put it into remission
[QUOTE=Mac2468;31382203]i dont think you can "cure" schizophrenia rather put it into remission[/QUOTE]
yeah, you basically use the anti psychotics to get rid of the positive symptoms of schizo (positive means acquired like hallucinations and delusions), and you take other drugs for the negative symptoms (negative means loss of something, speech functioning, irritability).
Also it depends on the severity and what type of schizo you have. Residual Schizophrenia is what you are talking about, where all the positive symptoms are gone but you still have the negative ones.
[QUOTE=OutOfPop;31379228]"I'll hear people call my name, but no one did. Ask someone to repeat what they said, and they didn't say anything." Wtf that might mean you have schizophrenia? I have had that for a long time. I also hear my dad's cough when he's not even home.... I thought those were just echos of things your brain is used to hearing..[/QUOTE]
Isn't it that your when brain doesn't hear anything it brings random sounds to our mind?
[QUOTE=confinedUser;31322071]i used to be schizo but i luckily recovered
[editline]25th July 2011[/editline]
and schizophrenia is on my fathers side but he doesn't have it nor do i anymore[/QUOTE]
Schizophrenia doesn't actually ever go away, Just saying.
anyway.
If you haven't gone mad from the first joint then you're not likely to lose it when you light up the second one, It just doesn't work that way. With drugs causing schizophrenia its like a switch, It either happens or then it doesn't happen. It depends on the person but of course it's more likely that you lose it if you're doing LSD or some other hallusiogen because with marijuana there's not really bad trips so you're never taking a chance of losing your mind because you're seeing some crazy shit and overall being scared.
Schizophrenia or some other mental instability may "occur" if you are drifted away by your thoughts to a point where the values of life dramatically change. So basically this means that you'll go insane if you're living a stressful life or if you're doing something like LSD. But THC is still a compound so it can cause schizophrenia in SOME people but if you're smoked it already it shouldn't to anything to you. I mean, It's been in your bloodstream and circulated your brains god knows how long, It's not like it hasn't been anywhere near the no touching spot which can make you go loco.
[QUOTE=Teal Moose;31340072]Schizophrenia is not being able to distinguish between hallucination and reality. You can, thus probably don't have schizophrenia. If you're delusional and can't distinguish reality from hallucination, that's another thing. I've been there myself, you'll know if you're there dude. Or rather you won't. Something like that. The sanity in between the crazy will tip you off. Or something i don't know, i'm kinda drunk take anything i say with a grain of salt. Luckily for me, my psychotic tendencies are mild and have, for now, dissipated.[/QUOTE]
I have mild schizophrenia and most of the time I've been able to distinguish my hallucinations from reality. My logic will be telling me that what's happening is not possible even when the rest of me is totally convinced. This varies for everyone though.Some of the time I could even distinguish my paranoid delusions from reality - not that I could do anything about it.
Schizophrenia is a strange illness to deal with. Point is, though, if you're having hallucinations or strange thoughts period, it's time to see a psychologist. What you're experiencing sounds a lot like what I experienced before I got medicated.
The one hallucination that always persisted for me was that when I looked at people out of the corner of my eye they were ALL staring at me. When I looked back they'd stop. I knew this was not real, but it happened anyway and felt real. A schizophrenic can often distinguish his symptoms from the real world. It's not so easy with delusion, but with things that defy logic, like believing that there's a nazi platoon in the shrubbery waiting to ambush you, you might get the idea that something's not right there.
Good on you OP for quitting. My life got a lot better when I quit. You may lose friends over this. It's better to let them go and not have the temptation to smoke than it is to keep them around and keep your drug connections. Just know that it's worth it in the long run!
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