schizophrenia&marijuana?

hey. i suppose i have mild depression. i guess so because i don't really feel anything. wel, anyways, after smoking weed the 2nd time i was super high and the next day i still felt strange. the trees had a life of their own. the 3rd day i still wasn't sure if the trees are breathing. anyways, the point is i haven't sung in 4 years...and have never played the piano as well as i did after smoking weed. i felt less inhibited and anxious. however i developed an anxiety of surroundings. no so much of what i'm DOING but of objects. it's extremely wierd but subsiding.
perhaps i have a tendency to psychosis w/ marijuana considering that every member of my immediate family is metnally disturbed in some way and even my grandmas too. what i'm saying is that maybe i should stop using it because of that but also because i don't really enjoy the feeling of being high. i am intensly paranoid. however i do enjoy immensly being in a differnt reality. when im high i feel like schizo... it's alarming and sorta entertaining but i don't think it's good. i guess i shouldn't do freakin self-evalutations and leave that to shrinks but im never going to one again since most shrink's have fucked up philosphies on how humans and that's how they are.

so, off the topic sorta but what i really wanted to ask is if you guys've expereicned anthing with a schizo/mj reltion or seen it or heard about it? i didn't konw that there was even a link w/ mj and schizo. but the symptons i had stirred me to research it on the net and surprised me, i came along a lot of findings&evidence (but not completely sure of their credibility)? thanks

Hmm, I think there is a combination of paranoia from being a new smoker and possibly some schizo brain functioning going on. The paranoia is normal, and you learn not to get paranoid if you smoke more. As far as the schizo, I'd be careful, I think many people on this site will tell you weed won't make you schizo, but it may amplify the effects of schizophrenia on your mind. I would talk to the shink and see what he says. He's bound to confidentiality, so as long as your over 18, its probobly for the best he knows anyways. They are pretty open minded people, and I doubt he will tell you to stop, unless its the best thing for you.

Good luck, and be safe.

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weed won't make you schizo, but it may amplify the effects of schizophrenia on your mind.

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thats about what i think.

i think if you smoke just a bowl a day you won't have anything to worry about. My friend used to smoke 8ths a day and he's alright.

if you have a family history, any psychotropic substance will speed the onset of and increase the severity of schizophrenia. basically every study on the subject, in respectable medical/psychology journals and puiblications, comes to that conclusion. it doesnt matter what other people can do and be fine with, if youre already at risk and dont want to deal with the illness, its better to not smoke.

a lot of the findings are rather interesting, too. the cannabinoidal receptors in the brain and spinal column are more active in schizophrenics at all times than in those not afflicted.

thats the result of poring over medical texts at UofM every night for about a month, not just from reading some pro or anti-pot website's faq page.