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.
In this video, I discuss managing schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder with medication and my experiences with it. I talk about benefits as well as drawbacks to taking medications including common side effects. Medication adherence is also touched upon.
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Heavy user of marijuana (6 years now), no side effects till now. I just enjoy the trip after a long hard working day.
I don’t drink alcohol or take any other drugs, heck even smoke cigarettes. Only marijuana.
Everyone is saying subjective responses with “is” and “is not” statements
This wording will lead you down a rabbit hole of being wrong almost every time, I advise subjectivity
I hade a 8 months psychosis, that was hell and heaven at the same time
I’m schizophrenia patient
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When I was about 10 , I had Paranoia, that my gymnasic Couch Had secretly installed a camera in my toilet and I Had this thought every time I went to the toilet.
It came from a Situation where she was standing there staring at me and talking about me with another person.
That a quite a good sign for a Prädisposition for Schizophrenia, right?
How come cases of schizophrenia have remained the same ever since marijuana consumption skyrocketed in the 60’s? If there was a correlation between marijuana consumption and neurosis then cases of schizophrenia would also skyrocket, but they haven’t do there is no correlation. Cigarette smoking certainly has an correlation with lung cancer.
Does it matter if you use indica or sativa? Sativa has always made me paranoid.
That is impossible I’ve never had an issue with marijuana and I had schizophrenia since I was 7 years old I’ve been smoking since I was 16 I was diagnosed with schizophrenia because I went through complications after birth
When I’m upset, I avoid smoking until I’ve calmed myself naturally. If I smoke after I’ve calmed myself it seems to help. I can’t even bring myself to smoke when I’m feeling overwhelmed.
I have had psychosis since 8 years old … voices in my head mainly and seeing things… but i started smoking weed in 2020, and it hasn’t changed much about my voices, but I feel so much better on weed, like i can handle the day because of it… i know its a crutch but i don’t know what else to do, doctors have been no help
Weed is one of the most dangerous substances known to man when it comes to mental health.
Your science works for the soft hearted and immature people ! Get a grip on realty before using any substance. The first thing to blame when life gets tough are the habits we have thus blaming cannabis for the cause.
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Very brave hope all goes well for you in the future
I really think that cannabis should be legal, but only for those with a permit, so that not everyone will have such easy access to it, and so that it can be studied. I can see the potential for cannabis interfering or getting involved with mental illness. I’m a former pothead, but I stopped using it for 30 years, and then got a medical card a few years ago. I use it sparingly now, to suppress nightmares.
i heard voices last time i smoked, only smoking once a week after that…shyt sent me straight to the shadow realm
I have asperger and so on the spectrum of schizophrenia.
Once did 7 g of dried cubensis mushroom, which was the start of unimaginable suffering. I saw apocalyptic events, heard voices more often at night, my own supposed death.
You are a remarkable young lady.
Ah yes "Psychosis" doctors Love using this word…
Or being stoned as stoners call it,
This is the reason it is smoked.
I have schizoaffective disorder and Marijuana makes me go into a psychosis. I took edibles one night and was hospitalized the same night. I blacked and had no control over my thoughts or actions. It’s so bad for me personally.
Marijuana worsened my borderline personality disorder it made more violent and aggressive pontentially dsering to murder rather than commit suicide
is psychosis paranoia and hallucinating
I’m reading some of these comments and in my 60 + years of life, never have I heard of ( until the comment section of this video) the ridiculous rantings of such weirdos!
I hope to God all you people are in one place!
It would be a shame if this genepool was smattered around the world!
But perhaps it is and this is precisely why the world is in the shape it’s in today!!!!
Just don’t blame your defects on the weed.
If you’re broken, own it and fix it!
Weed never effected me, 1000 mg edible and i just order macdonalds 3 times and slowed my english reasoning.
But shrooms……… shrooms are different, i lay down staring at the wall for 6 hours, hearing clown music and scratching my thumb until it bleeds, seeing images of "animated pornography" that i’ve never seen previously.
Dmt, i see "eyes" on the wall and odd shapes that don’t seem to genuinely exist.
My uncle, and grandad both have paranoid schizophrenia of the high iq sub variant so i’m at large risk, including head injuries and childhood neglect.
But weed? Nahhhh never, it’s just not fun to be slow and "stupid"
Nicotine? Combined with intense exercise and a nightshift job, i became paranoid, delusional, and "hyper active"
The sort of "Psychosis" that weed typically produces.
As of today i can say LSD and DMT are the two greatest cures for the high iq variant of schizophrenia, atleast according to my own personal experience
You should’ve mentioned somewhere that she’s not a cannabis expert. Extremely misleading and not factual at all!! Weed is an individual experience, you can’t share your experience and say that what weed is. You wanna learn a bit? Search on the terpenes you find in cannabis and their benefits you’ll be shocked. Unless you don’t want to which I understand 🤡 been smoking for a year💀 lollllll
the strains of thc in canadar is very low
My girlfriend has schizophrenia and very small doses, about 5 mg or 1/2 of a gummy, stop her psychosis dead. Like a 1/2 a gummy per day actually makes her not have any symptoms. However, if she smokes just 1 hit of a vape pen, it throws her into an instant psychosis about 5 minutes or less. I don’t know why the edibles work differently on her, I just know they do.
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your right. we do live in a simulation. the world is not real as we are told. how can you hear a crowd of people talking with you and your friend or how can two people have the same delusion hearing the same thing or seeing the same thing that is not there. how can a person hear the voices of people inside another persons mind. all that seem impossible is there because the world is not as it seem. nothing is wired like we are told. how is it possible that a person can see trough solid walls as if their made of nothing. the only thing you see is a wire frame where the wall supposed to be. objects look like its made of glass. then there is these triangles everywhere. when you look at a object the triangles arrange themselves around the object in some proportion. the first thing you see when your activated the matrix chemical is a persian rug with oriental patterns. if your mind crashed it means that for a moment you saw the real you but as you could not take reality you where reinstated into the simulation. the loss of memory is a defence mechanism to protect the real you from yourself.
Probably should get rid of Rob – degenerate. No need to have bad influences in your life
I was smoking for a few years before my brother he didn’t smoke until I showed him it, 2 years later he started acting more strange started mixing pills with alc that was in 2020. Now he is a completely different person who can’t function as a normal person or get a job or girlfriend or kids or wife. I hate myself and will continue too maybe forever there is no redemption or begging for forgiveness u have to keep living with ur burdens until they consume u
Maybe antipsyckotic medecine is better for you than cannabis???
watching it while high, I was very convinced that I am developing Schizophrenia
Shit, I checked all the risks of, no wonder weed has such a powerfull effect on me haha
Drunkenness is a curse and a hindrance only to slaves. Wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with Original Sin. In Latin countries where sin is not taken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, drunkenness is a rare accident. It is only in Puritan countries, where self-analysis, under the whip of a coarse bully like Billy Sunday, brings the bearer to ‘conviction of sin,’ that he hits first the ‘trail’ and then the ‘booze.’
Iam into this illness as being used weed for long time as iam under medical treatment but i feel that weed is my cure
well, that wasn’t psychosis and that’s not paranoia, that’s self-awareness, also you have to use it just lil bit, like 1 hit and that’s it, unless you are snoop dogg with high tolerance. I get paranoid too sometimes, every stoner does if they exceed their tolerance limit, that’s perfectly normal, you just have to chill out for 30 minutes and you’ll be fine 😀
I will NEVER forget how marijuana pretty much ruined my life and the lives of those close to me. Words can’t even describe how confusing and terrifying it was when I first got sick from marijuana.
6:14 i do had this kind of experiance after i smoked k2 spice"bonsai" before i smoked that shit i was okay with weed nothing was going wrong bbut one day one of my f ucking firends tolled me to try out "bonsai"(k2 spice) i had some sort of a psychotic episode(saying gibberish, i though the unniverse ENDS i couldnt move i was screaming but not me but the outside me the inside me was trying to communicate but he couldnt i was hearing voices saying shit that i couldnt understand and seing those zombies that i DONT WANT TO REMEMBER) i had epilipsy(x2) too… and then after that weed started to react difriently i started to feel the same shit you are talking about in this video but a bit difriently… disconnection from reality feel like i am floating camera in game those weird thoughs about 5g controlling our brain behaviur with frequensies my perception seemed changed everything looked SO BIIIIG and scary i had this STUPID SLOW MOTION EFFECT EVERYONE WAS LAUGHING AT ME everyone looked SCARY in some weird way then i started trying to run away i tryed to talk but i dont think i could i was hearing random screams and a weird sound of something melting after that i still have some of the effects sometimes and they are VERY ANNOYING and right now i am FUCKING DIAGNOSED WITH ORGANIC PSYCHOSIS THAT GETS FUCKING WORSE EVERYDAY
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I hit the joint one time and lived a double life for 15 YEARS!!!! Had an ENTIRE different family and everything…. The crazy part is I live in Ohio… Apparently my second family was in New Zealand!!!! 😮
I’ve never smoked the magic dragon again…
very relatable, ive had 2 psychosis before, they were 4 years apart… my first one was where i was smoking constantly everyday for months on end, until my memory got so bad i couldnt even remember what i spoke about a couple of hours ago, i quit cold turkey and ended up not being able to sleep, i first entered a period of enlightenment where it just felt like i had everything figured out i was feeling ontop of the world, like i had to regain control over my life immediately, and that i was in actual fact in "psychosis" whilst i was smoking and now I’m awake xD …. the enlightenment didnt last, whilst in this state i got into a argument with someone and that just mentally broke me, after that i officially delved into psychosis, i would hallucinate messages on my phone from cops trying to interogate me, to it then switching to gangsters saying they coming to get me… i ended up in a government psych ward (in south africa) in between actual gangsters xD …. when i got out of psychosis i couldnt tollerate being on the meds, feeling like my brain is being controlled…. i ended up starting to smoke again… this time i would not smoke constantly and would go on many periods of abstinence… whilst smoking would bring brief periods of pleasure, the after effects were always terrible, and i always had brain fog the next day making it impossible to get anything done at work…. last year i hit a hard dip with depression and ended up smoking a lot… eventually i quit my job coz i had enough money in the bank to just be a lazy bum and smoke…. months went by of constant smoking whilst my mental health was deuterating until some family drama took place and an argument took place and boom back into psychosis… i shaved my head like a monk and became enlightened again… it’s almost as if i found God again, getting messages like god is love and getting lost in the details of different religions is not what he is about etc etc…. i also felt like i became shiva… the more i read about him the more i related… obviously the enlightenment didnt last… it transioned again into being interogated by cops on my phone, thinking animals were robotically being controlled and i can just ramble on about the different meaning and scenarios playing out in my head… now im still jobless moved back into a flat with my uncle sold my ford focus ST while waiting for my apartment to sell…. im depressed af with no energy for anything, naturally i got myself off the meds again since i believe it completely kills my fire…. and now im constantly battling with the urge of can i smoke responsibly again or am i just kidding myself… so far ive been clean for 6 months. thats the end of the short story, perhaps i should write a book xD
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what if its true you being watched but from another dimension?
Damn why is everyone so f ked up these days???
My brother in law’s schizophrenia basically “activated” when he was smoking weed with his friends. Of course it was always underlying most likely but when he smoked with them that day he had a full breakdown and since then has never been the same again. Hearing voices,mistrusting people, basically needing care constantly and never being able toive by himself again. So just dont try it if you haven’t already at least until you become a certain age
Be careful people.
i love it had the same experience ;( especially when it comes to reality
I’m have controlled schizophrenia with invega but I took a delta 8 gummy not knowing what it is and it kicked me right into psychosis