does weed cause Schizophrenia?

[Lennon06]

iv noticed iv become a bit skitzophrenic in the last 7 months iv been smokin chronic. like i deliver junk mail leaflets yea and and i am gonna quit cause i just get skitzophrenic people hate you for it and like befor i started tokin i didnt give a fuck,now i rush out of the front garden lol its sad but since i started doin the job iv been attacked by a massive dog (got a fat scare) been given the odd greave here and there im like im only doin my job, now im over the top a bit i only deliver now to houses with porches dont touch any other house with just a front door i just chuck the leaflets in the bin i dont care that shit i smoke makes ya into a skitzophrenic pussy its true my brother warned me like a year ago when i started smokin

does anyone else get this?

[Th3 Chr0nic]

paranoia? or maybe u are smoking too much?

[KOZMO]

naw it don't make you a skitzo

[Nocturnal Stoner]

skitz is like multiple personality disorder, if you find yourself talking to yourself then thers something wrong, ive been smokin for a yaer now, and i used to get paranoid and shit but i dont care anymore

i also live in london and i go to school stoned and shit, ive never been paranoid infront of teachers so maybe it applies to people with anxiety issues cause ive never felt paranoid

[Inferius]

skitz is like multiple personality disorder, if you find yourself talking to yourself then thers something wrong, ive been smokin for a yaer now, and i used to get paranoid and shit but i dont care anymore

i also live in london and i go to school stoned and shit, ive never been paranoid infront of teachers so maybe it applies to people with anxiety issues cause ive never felt paranoid

I talk to myself all the time...?
Weed doesn't cause schitzophrenia. It' can exacerbate a latent schizophrenia.
But you don't seem to have schitzophrenia, nor proper knoledge of how to write in the english language.
You just have paranoia/anxiety.

[Kezmondo]

skitz is like multiple personality disorder, if you find yourself talking to yourself then thers something wrong

I always talk to myself, this does not mean i have a problem I simply enjoy my own company and my vivid imagination.

And i dont think think you have schizophrenia pal, you might have a dose of paranoia, which will pass in time as eventually you will learn there is nothing to be worried about. And if it is paranoia then its not a bad thing, it helped me through my younger years when i used to be foolish and niave.

Just chill and if its gettin too bad cut down a bit.:rasta:

[rottenPauL]

i smoke for many years and the last 7 months i smoke aboun 3 to 5grams per day and never happend anthing to my mind to blame weed for. In fact weed helped me around alot many times in my life. A year ago i had panic attacts and i was on promazepam but i replaced it with weed. My psychologists was not so sure about that. He told me that many people will find redemption with weed and some will not. Some people just dont respond to weed corectly and can actually cause panic attacks to some people. In first i didnt believe her but then i realized that i have met people that just completely freak out by weed. I think u may be one of those people. I always thought weed is just not for everybody and my psychologist made it clear to me. Good news r that tryen to fight panic attacks with weed just went great on me. I stopped the antidepressant pills, and with good psychotherapy combined with weed, i made panic attacks vanish to thin air in a matter of 2 months :D

[Zoosh]

People with Schizophrenia have much deeper pyschological problems than that dude. They have hearing hallucinations, become out of control in there own head and just delusional in general.

[Th3 Chr0nic]

i took a myspace quiz once that said i was a mild schizo but i dunno if that counts :/

[Lennon06]

yea its really small amount of skitzo like hearing then gettin really paranoid, not seeing hallucinations

[Inferius]

yea its really small amount of skitzo like hearing then gettin really paranoid, not seeing hallucinations

Oh, that makes sense.
I guess We Alll have schizophrenia!
*phew*!
Glad that's settled.

[Jaycub]

Schizophrenia does NOT equal Multiple Personalities Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Don't spread misinformation.

[pbstar31389]

I have seen first hand weed bring out latent sctizofrenia. It happened to a good friend of mine and he went completely crazy, and now hes in a mental hospital. So it is possible, but not if you dont have the "genes" for sctizofrenia, or wherever it stays.

[Bob the Awesome]

*sigh* Schizophrenia is not multiple-personality disorder, it's where you hear/see things that aren't there.

And it can bring out latent psychological problems in people, but usually people who've had problems before starting cannabis just make themselves worse.

So if you didn't have problems before smoking, I'd not worry too much. What you're getting is probably the irrational paranoia that many users experience.

[Lennon06]

that is a great answer cheers mate

[myselfandi]

Marijuana does not cause mental disorder, but if you have a pre-disposition for mental illness (or have a mental illness that hasn't shown itself yet such as Schizophrenia; which usually develops in the early to mid-20s of males) then yes, Marijuana like other psychedelics can cause this disorder to surface. If you have the disorder, it is almost certain that you will develop at some later point of great mental stress.

Also, Schizophrenia is in no way related to Dissociative Identity Disorder (the official name of "Mutliple Personalities" and/or "Split Personalities." It just so happens that many mental disorders have the same common themes/symptoms (DID, Schizophrenia, PTSD, etc) and can be confused with each other.