if you discovered you had schizophrenia...

... even 'light' schizophrenia, would you quit smoking, as well as other psychotropic drugs?

 

i was under the impression i had schizophrenia from the ages of 15-18, till i was found not to.... but my whole life i have showed many of the "symptoms"... i continued to smoke anyway.

 

I doubt it.

 

Yeah I have some symptoms too.

Either way, if a person happens to find out they are schizophrenic, that doesn' necessarily mean it is a result of getting fukt up.

 

Would your schizophrenia be increased with smoking? If smoking does not effect the schizophrenia for the worse, one would have no reason to stop. If one smoked and became more paranoid from smoking, one may stop smoking if their schizophrenia was paranoid.

 

smoking can exacerbate it.

since what pot basically does is amplify existing sensations, schizophrenic thought patterns are amplified as well.

 

Yeah it certainly wouldn't be smart to continue smokin and takin various drugs, but I just wouldn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't AT LEAST smoking.

 

yeah. apparently, theres a good chance that I have schizophrenia. but I don't think getting high quite often will make me go all Barret.

 

im still not sure. i thought for a while that i was at risk. i still believe i am at a higher than normal likelyhood of having some genetic disposition. but so far ive had not problems after a lot of inner battling. if i found out that i was definately going to become schizo, i dunno what id do. maybe id smoke and say fuck it and just try and live life the fullest before it inevitably takes me over. or maybe id want to fight the prediction and try and prevent the onset.

who knows

 

Quitting would be the way to go IF you knew that things would get progressively worse. The drugs given for schizophrenia can be brutal in the long run. Muscle control erodes and erodes.....

-B

 

One has to remember, it is possiable to get diagnosed as schizophrenic without actually being schizophrenic.

The key is knowing oneself and learning what works and what does not work on an individual basis.

 

By farrr, uncontrolable debilitating mental illness is my biggest fear. This is why I try to stay away from psychadelics because I'm terrrriffffied something is just going to get triggered in my brain that will never go back to normal.

 

If I were full blown schitzophrenic, I probably wouldn't be able to take care of myself as I have seen many a person who was, unable to care for themselves, so my answer is:
I would take whatever my caregiver was giving me. Being pot or just some real powerful anti psychotics.


If I were mildly schitzo, I would smoke still. As long as I had my wits about me anyway.

 

can I know what are some of the schizo symptoms you guys had?

 

Well that's the problem... schizophrenics generally are not in the position to self diagnose

-B

 

Who doesn't have "schizophrenia", come on everyones got that shit. Its about as popular as bipolar or adhd.

 

I thought it over and "we" don't. Unless I didn't pay attention close enough

-Bill

 

i think i have it :/

 

That's the anal probe talking

-Bill

 

No. I'ma never quit.