My Experience with Marijuana and Schizophrenia
My Experience with Marijuana and Schizophrenia
In this video, I talk about the recent legalization here in Canada of marijuana, and the studied impacts of marijuana use on schizophrenia and psychosis. I also talk about my experiences experimenting with marijuana while also having schizoaffective disorder.
We would encourage anyone to discuss the potential effects of marijuana on your health with your doctor first and to just be really responsible and sensible about using substances such as marijuana. Based on scientific research and my experience with it, we would recommend against the use of marijuana for people with schizophrenia or susceptibility to psychosis.
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Fake news
All she saw was reality.
Paranoia will destroy ya
I am very much in favor of legalization after living through Crohn’s Disease I am very much aware that for people without health insurance weed may be the only affordable option for chronic pain. That said I am very disappointed in nasty comments on this and other videos from people who seem to feel it’s necessary to be rude about other people’s unique experiences in order to defend weed legalization.
I think sativa makes u skits
For me I use to be able to use it often… Then I stopped for a while, but once I started again all HELL BROKE LOSE… Heard voices, saw disturbing images, couldn’t control my thoughts they were rapid harsh n crazied….felt pain n absolute fear. It was the same weed n each time after that it became hell N I stopped n now stress keeps the symptoms
My dad has schizophrenia so I stick to CBD oil for my anxiety, because it doesnt have THC
The "experts" have been sending mixed signals over this for ages. Some claim that pot can help treat psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, while others claim it can trigger it.
If I suddenly developed an alternate personality after a few bong hits, I wouldn’t remember it 8 hours afterwards anyway, so what’s the biggie? And besides, it’s common knowledge that everyone has multiple personalities, but only a true schizophrenic gives them names. A stoner wouldn’t be able to remember those names afterwards, so again no harm done, right?
In the words of the wise and legendary rocker Ian Hunter, "You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic."
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Im 17 and both of my parents were schizophrenics, however I really enjoy smoking. But all this stuff about how it can bring schizophrenia on has me quite spooked. I’m looking for an outside opinion on whether I should quit, or how much I should moderate. I’ve been smoking for about two and a half years now. I don’t think I’m becoming psychotic but I have noticed that I’m less good at communicating than I have been in the past, and can sometimes be an asshole😬.
Bullshit
What was the THC to CBD content of the marijuana?
Marijuana causes Schizophrenia dumb ass stoners.
Hey Lauren! Listen I have a neighbor that has a son who has paranoid schizophrenia. They have left him all alone at their house and he has nobody.
He has violent tendencies(such as pounding his fists on wood, a wall, a window), he yells and screams threatening the neighbors and sometimes has moments where he acts like hes going to commit suicide.
From my homework on schizophrenia(what I’ve read so far) he seems to be not take his meds at all, he has no control over his hallucinations, no control over impulses, and goes into deep psychosis.
He’s not always like that though. One day my dogs ran away and he gave them back to me and didn’t say a word. I know his parents are scared of him and supposedly he hit his mother. Some stuff he does I know is to get attention because he has nobody. Police get called to his house all the time and his dad just doesn’t want to even bother with him anymore. I want to help him but I don’t know how. If there is a way to help him please let me know.
i mean did you smoke CBD while you schizophrenic if you did can you tell me what it do to you???
My last time i smoked weed i puked and my head was spinning but i had been drinking a 6 pack beforehand. Anyway everytime i use adderall/speed i get schizoprhenia psychosis. I can wake up in the middle of the night and start talking to objects in the dark that i think are real people and think i’m in a different place at a friends house when i’m in my room. I was rushed to the hospital 3 times for psychosis. My last trip i could hear my uncle outside calling me bad stuff and say they would break my door and feed me to the dogs because i bought some molly from a guy at a party overseas and didn’t pay him back so he got pissed and killed a kid from my uncles family so he wanted to break in my room and beat me up then let the dogs eat me while my auntie by blood (whom he’s married to) tried to protect me and was calling my mom ins stress because i was just visiting for a couple of weeks and my parents left a month ago…if it gets this bad u gotta stop using drugs. In your mind your own family could turn against u and be your biggest enemy. U gonna hurt or kill someone yourself.
Everybody become paranoid the first time they take THC! drug induce psychosis are not schizophrenia, you got a delusion with the simulation thing. (Im not telling you are not schizophrenic tho)
Thank you for your video. Is very usefull.
I supposidly have adhd but ive only ever had paranoia i think well to be honest i started smoking way too young to a point where im now still hooked on thc dont smoke anymore but still consume i remember one of the first times i smoke i was like 13 and i started coughing then bam i was just on a different frequency almost not like any hard drugs buy still slightly differnt frequency from normal people idk sounds wierd but just look up gta 5 stoned and thats what it feels like exactly lol
U fine as hell too
dont do drugs !!!!
This really show how drugs effect people differently, I never have experienced psychosis or SZ or at least bad and i smoke helllaaa
If you think cannabis triggers it for you please dont take adderall its 10x worse
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Smoke responsibly.
You have so much courage for sharing, thank you.
I used to get paranoid alot but then the more i used it jus went away but i still be lowkey paranoid sometimes😬
Many of my preconceived notions flew right out of the window… I’m not schizophrenic, I’m a bipolar who once had psychotic features (hearing, seeing and feeling things) I rarely smoke cannabis and when I do I will only smoke it when I’m with others that I trust because it has made me extremely paranoid a few times… One time I lost control… I do it on the rare occasion because I really do enjoy how it makes me feel when everything goes right… I’m definitely prolegalization for adult use here in the states.
I’ve been smoking heavy since my teens
I call bullshit. I know first hand. Its liquor that triggers it more than anything.
I’ve had a similar experience. (I’m not schizophrenic). It was last year for St. Patrick’s day and I took a hit off a dab rig. My friend had heated it really hot and put quite a lot of wax on the end. I also inhaled deeply. So the dosage was extremely high. After about 5 min I passed out and I’m not sure how long I was out. I was in this horrible nightmare and it felt as if walls were crushing me from either side, and I was just out of control. I was spazzing out for however long, but when I awoke I couldn’t understand English. It sounded like jibberish to me. Very freaky 😖. When the drug wore off, I woke up in my friends house and he told me what had happened. I realized that I had busted up my knuckles pretty bad on his dashboard as my hands were red and swollen with pieces of skin missing on my knuckles. Some of the spots healed but others didn’t, I have 3 or 4 very feint scars some of my knuckles. I figured I wasn’t able to perceive pain in the moment, and my fight or flight response was overloaded. I was seriously convinced that I was dying. I found out later that it was probably the dosage. I need very little weed to get high, and on the rare occasion that I do decide to have some, one or two hits from a joint gets me very high. I just have to be careful with how much I take in. I guess it’s good in a way because I need very little to get high. But that experience will probably stay with me for the rest of my life. Definitely not fun. 😖.
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I can’t smoke weed its makes me nuts , cant touch the stuff ,vile drug
I’m 25 years old, been smoking marijuana since age 16. Was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2016 so I have been living with the mental illness for about 4years now..here’s my experience. After I was diagnosed I decided to quit weed and another drugs I was doing, also alcohol..I stopped everything for about 2years solid with an occasional one or two hits of marijuana every couple of months and those one or two hits would get me super stoned but my paranoia would shoot through the roof and would have illogical thinking…fast forward to 2018 I started to use more and more again until I started to use almost daily. And what I started notice happening was that each and every time I smoked, little by little I would be able to maintain and function while being high on marijuana, yes I would get paranoid feeling but it decreased and plus it’s weed. With or without having schizophrenia your gonna get paranoid just depends how paranoid. It’s different everyone. I realized that for me..
The more I thought about the paranoia and other negative symptoms the more it increase along with the illogical thoughts. Oh yeah, ive never heard any voices, not once and I’ve never had any visual hallucinations and continue to smoke weed til this day. The more I smoked it the more I could handle the highness or be more accustomed to it, yeah I get a little paranoia but I believe that’s due to the effects of the marijuana, before the paranoia would go up the roof but now that I smoke practically everyday I’m used to it. And if you’re wondering how could I be diagnosed with schizophrenia if I don’t have auditory or visual hallucinations..I had delusional thoughts and I forgot the other lol but what I’m trying to say is…everyone is different and experience things differently. Just like how some people with schizo have far worser symptoms than the other. Me I was lucky enough to have amazing doctors who figured out what was wrong early on and got me on the right medication.
I had a similar experience before, but I didnt know at the time that it was the Marijuana that had triggered my episodes. I went out of the country with my family and I was already cautious because new experiences usually trigger my psychosis. During this trip, I had smoked Marijuana in the Hope’s that it would calm my constant anxiety and it did but I wasn’t aware then what it was doing to me. So I kept smoking it, liking the effect. But then there was one night in the place we were staying at (which was a very trusted family members house btw) I woke up and thought that people had broken in and that I was going to be murdered or something. Fast forward to the end of the trip, I had had a VERY bad psychotic episode on the plane. I thought the passengers were all in on this plan to hijack the plane once it was in the air and kill us all. I cried, I had to be calmed down. But I got through the flight and now I know why it had gotten that bad for me. I was smoking constantly during that trip and I will never do that again haha thank you for this video! It helped me a lot! 🙂
Stop lying you brainless professionals. At this point we all know that schizoprenia is caused by the rfid human microchip.
When I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder shortly before being discharged after finishing my first visit in the psych ward in October 2014, I found out it was linked to my frequent use of cannabis, which I have been using since around mid 2013. But over the years, I rarely experienced psychosis when I smoked it. But last summer was another story entirely. I was at the beach with a few friends, we all took a few tokes at a time. By nightfall, just minutes away from retreating to my apartment (while at my most extreme high, no less), I noticed instantly that I wet my shorts. They were black, but still, yikes! Paranoia may have set in during that point. That memory remains fresh in my brain to this day. Thank you for bringing some positive reinforcement on your experience as well.
Thanks for being generous and share your story . I have never used any drugs but , my son who started around fourteen developed psychosis and then developed into schezofernia and hospitalized involuntarily three times . Very similar symptom .now he knows how bad it is for him .unfurtutunatly he doesn’t take his medication . When he takes his meds , he is functional . I am totally against these stuff and I can not believe what I went through .
im schizophrenic and i wanna know can schizophrenic smoke CBD let me know please????
5:38 I get that she has mental health issues but the tings she’s saying about being so stoned she thinks she’s in a simulation, getting paranoid and felling like she’s slipping into psychosis. Whenever I get something similar, I might think about things like simulation theory and other deep shit. I might even get a bit paranoid on rare occasions but ultimately I KNOW I’ve just smoked and I find it funny. I don’t take those thoughts seriously and think I’m psychotic I just think wow I’m really stoned.
I have disorganized Schizophrenia. I used to eat hemp seed protein for fitness. And It was always weird and I had thoughts that this could be the hemp. My family didn’t say they had any symptoms.
I felt so hysterical and I talked so much and so long, like I had to talk. It was really restless. Didn’t feel right in my head. Now I don’t do it.
I have no real fun in short term pleasures. I’m already experiencing life differently, just need to regulate it. No need for drugs or alcohol. Never liked drinking or doing other drugs. Stay safe guys
They say only low IQ people suffer the negative effects, such as psychosis, of Low Latent Inhibition (which seems to be one of the effects of THC). I say it’s not a matter of IQ, but the amount of correct knowledge and it’s practice that determines whether you turn your gift of schizophrenia into genius or madness.
Living with Psychosis and other issues, I smoke regularly and most (not all) of my psychosis experiences are non-existent. However, I smoke as an antidepressant, so when my stress peaks while I’m high, it becomes terrible and every second makes it worse. Basically, it’s pretty much 50/50 on if you think it’s a good choice for you or not. I recommend it to anyone if you are willing to try something. If it’s not for you, hopefully, something works.
I think what you are doing on this channel is really meaningful to the society. I really hope you don’t let any negative comments get close to you and that you don’t stop making videos. Sending lots of love and strength all the way from Germany 😊💜
i mean did you smoke CBD while you schizophrenic if you did can you tell me what it do to you???
I recorded gameplay footage, all while smoking. keep to yourself, you’ll be right. when you say don’t dabble with it, it’s already too late on my end. My brain is doing something weird in isolation though. I hear my name when i lay down. I mistake things like my door being knocked at. putting yourself down in gaming, schizophrenic thoughts… because. people are 5050. never know if that person in the group hates the way you play. hates your pixels. stuck in, psychosis i suppose. not sure what to believe. losing can cause schizo attacks, which i am more bipolar. so yeah. heh. keep to yourself you won’t end up in a ward. typing my thoughts publicly, opinions, have not really helped. but it is a process of proving people wrong. don’t care what they think, but i am lying.
I live with a brother that has schizoaffective disorder. Now keep in mind he also does METH and ALREADY HAD mental problems to begin with. So one day I decided to smoke with him with the intent to help calm him down, and also so I could de-stress to do homework. He did seem to get crazier and more psychotic after smoking. I personally was freaking out. Partly because I was high, but mostly from seeing him like that. From seeing his mental state for what it really is. So what I can conclude from my 1st hand experience is that it doesn’t MAKE YOU schizophrenic, but if you ALREADY HAVE IT, it can make it worse for some people. I only freaked out real bad from LACED WEED he gave me 8 years ago. Even then a lot of it was also from realizing how mental my brother is.
I deal with psychosis, depersonalization, paranoia,PTSD and a schizoaffective disorder everyday sober or not and it sucks and I’m only 17 everything I see don’t seem real and it scares me everyday when I really focus on the things around me
I have schizoaffective disorder and I have had very bad experiences with weed. This is so relatable. I don’t smoke THC heavy strains anymore, but if I smoke a mostly CBD strain I still sometimes get some symptoms. I’m thinking about just cutting weed out of my system completely. Anyway this video helped me realize I’m not alone so thank you.
What about cbd hemp?