Posted by comftnumb on December 29, 2002, at 23:50:16
In reply to Re: Marijuana triggered my schizophrenia, posted by oracle on December 29, 2002, at 23:18:12
I didn't have any psychotic symptoms until I started smoking weed. I was self-medicating for social anxiety. If you want to pin my social anxiety on prodromal schizophrenia, then fine. But I think the two are unrelated. Even if they are, it still doesn't explain why if I ever smoke a joint now I get extremely psychotic. That didn't used to happen when I first started smoking.
I'm not saying marijuana causes schizophrenia. I think I must have a predisposition. But I am saying marijuana triggered my psychotic episode. My doctors agree. Marijuana triggers psychosis in those vulnerable. And if you smoke pot your chances of getting schizophrenia increase by 30%, according to a Swedish study. That's for people even without a predisposition.
> I highly doubt it. Most psychotic breaks happen
> in ones 20's and many start smoking pot then.
> Also smoking pot can be seen as a coping skill
> to having/starting schizophrenia.
>
> Really reaching here, one could say being 20 something caused their schizophrenia, if one was to confuse cause and effect.
>
> Given the HUGE number of people who smoke pot, and have for centuries, we should have seen a
> causal relationship here. People do drugs to ease
> the suffering of schizophrenia.
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