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It has been a year and a half since I had a religious episode of THC induced psychosis and I just started getting actual psychiatric help for how bad my mental health has gotten

Ever since that incident, my pattern recognition has gone retarded. I see messages for me in what songs I hear and the text that is on my receipts. I am also having terrible intrusive thoughts and I am spiraling down. I have never been as stressed as I have been in the past couple weeks and I am afraid that this is not just a phase

I got ahold of a therapist and he thinks this is all my OCD and that i'm not schizo. I am scared that I actually AM schizo and is falsely attributing my thinking to my OCD and that I am only going to get worse since I am not getting meds specifically for schizos. I read that a study was done on a lot of people who had thc induced psychosis and about half of them went on to be diagnosed with schizophrenia

I have not gotten high since the episode, and I don't plan on ever having THC unless there's a schizo-safe strain they make and it's been tested for years.

So far, since my psychiatrist thinks its OCD, i have been given an SSRI and it admittedly has severely helped the stress I endure. I still get the schizo lines of thought but the stress is not there and so I don't obsess over it as much

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>>34624926
I'm in a similar situation but my psychiatrist says my diagnosis is linked to both MDD and BPD.

I don't think our treatment is solely meant for us to go back to normal, I believe it takes time with the help of therapeutic support where they help us reduce the risk of having another episode rather than helping us become normal and function in every day routines.

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>>34625128
You should probably trust a trained psychiatrist more than a bunch of random losers on an anime forum. Given that the treatment he's prescribed is working, I would stick with that. But obviously, talk to your doctor about how it's going. If you're still bothered by symptoms, mention that. And if they're *really* bothering you, make it clear how much.

>>34626989
I want to trust him but there have been situations in which doctors misread my family and friend's situations and fucked them over. My brother was supposed to get access to a food therapist to help his autism not hinder what he can eat and the doctors thought "he will come out of this phase, let's not get him that treatment" and now he only eats a handful of foods and rarely are they healthy

>>34624926
>THC induced psychosis a year and a half ago and I only now started getting psychiatric help
Jesus fuck. WTF weren't you treated right away?

My wife had THC induced psychosis about 17 years ago. She was 12 days in the psych ward. She had a prescription for anti-psychotics when she was discharged. She was followed by a social working and a psychiatrist for a year after she was discharged. The anti-psychotics helped her kick THC and eventually helped her get off tobacco. She took the pills for maybe 3-4 years afterwards and then slowly left them.

She didn't get messages from God but she did rearrange the living room like that hotel room scene in Pink Floyd's The Wall.

To your question - you'll never get back to full normalcy. But you can and will get closer to such and happier. You need to recognize signs of a crisis and techniques to cut them short. You need to learn to recognize when something strange exists only in your brain and when that strange things is actually IRL.

>>34627423
Has *this* doctor given you any good reason not to trust his competence?

>>34627423
Sounds like your brother refused the food therapist's advice.

And doctors are much better trained and have stricter licensing then food therapists.

Maybe the universe or an angel or some thing unseen is trying to talk to you and you don't have schizophrenia.

schizo is a super power just hard to harness.

>>34627530
>Jesus fuck. WTF weren't you treated right away?
I thankfully was able to stop myself from doing what I thought I had to do and I was able to calm myself. The week following that was scary because I didn't know what was real or not

>To your question - you'll never get back to full normalcy
I hope you are wrong

>>34627680
I already have autism and ADHD. I don’t want any more superpowers

update. the thoughts are getting more intense and I don't think this med I got on is working enough to what I need. Would it be bad to double the dose by taking two of my starter dose pills when I am supposed to take just one? I wish I could smoke a joint to relax but its that stuff that gave me this anxiety to begin with so no. I hate this shit and I hate how life had to give me OCD and ADHD and Autism on top of this shit. I sincerely implore any of you who have a family history of schizophrenia to avoid any form of THC

>>34624926
you need to take magnesium glycinate and other supplements (l-theanine, inositol, ithium orotate) and change your diet to reduce hyperglutamate state of your brain ; i was hospitaized for months for drug induced psychosis, they wouldn't let me take supplements and kept feeding me bullshit like white bread ; the moment i came home i went off the antipsychotics/ssris and implemented my supplement routine along with sunlight (grimhood 's tweets helped alot, he recovered from schizophrenia and documented his routines) ; it's possible you just need to be patient and consistent

Yes it helped. Being paranoid was a nightmare. I still remember how I would have panic attacks, and I would feel so broken. Everything felt like a hidden message that was saying I would die. I don't want to go back there so I'm strict with my meds. I ended up hurting myself and those around me when I went through psychosis.

>>34624926
Just go on risperadone anon. It’s for psychosis. Tell your doctor you got psychosis from weed. They’ll put you on anti psychotic meds

>>34633487
>magnesium glycinate
Funny you say that. I started taking that a week ago. I will look into others you mentioned though so thanks