My Friend has Psychosis Vol. This can't be real life

[ahat]

I had a homie go crazy from trees. Apparently its a small percentage of people this happens to. Dude was the cool kid back in the day. He was on all the sports teams, all the girls loved him, had the flyest clothes etc. Now hes just straight up weird. He doesnt laugh and hardly smiles. He use to ring my phone down while i was at work so at first id figure maybe it was an emergency, but it would be like "oh i wanted to ask u something but yo....i forgot. He ince bugged me for a whole week to take him to this athletic store across town. When i finally took him i was expecting him to buy a buncha items... Dude bought a needle for the pump for his soccer ball. Just weird stuff but i dont think its weird to him, plus he my mans from back in the day. Apparently when he lost his mind he was running down the street and was hearing voices saying "im gonna get u im gonna get u". He harmless now tho. All he be doing is copping every color adidas tracksuit ever made.

 

[julesbeats]

I had a sort of psychotic attack in April 2014, a few days after my grandpa died. I don't remember all of it though. I remember going to bed at around 11pm or so, and the next thing I know it's around 7am and I'm downstairs on the bathroom screaming. Mom said I was yelling about shadows chasing me, though I don't recall. Somewhere in the early morning my mom woke up to me screaming upstairs, rolling on the floor in my sheets. Totally separated from reality.
I think it was around 8 or 9am when I started te become aware of reality again and realizing that I was hallucinating. I showered and then went to the ER, at that point I was seeing flies instead of shadows. The ER did a tox screen and some scans, both showing nothing out of the ordinary. By noon I was still hallucinating (dancing clowns in alternating colors at that point) so I was committed into another hospitals' mental ward. The hallucinations went away later that evening, which is apparently very strange. I was given Zyprexa (anti-psychotic) for a few days but I didn't really have any strange symptoms for the rest of my stay.
They released me after a little over a week, clearing me of any mental illness. The doctors told me to get my rather large brain cyst examined further but that didn't provide any answers either. I was born with the cyst and it was never seen as a problem. Several specialists concluded it was possible the cyst played a role but they couldn't really determine that unless they examined my brain as I was having an attack. One of their tests was monitoring my brain for a week while trying to evoke an attack. Probably one of the worst experiences of my life. Forced sleep deprivation, random flashing lights to test for epilepsy, having your whole face and hair full of electric nodes, ... Might as well have been a torture camp. No significant results from that either so it felt like a huge waste of time.

Today I still don't have the slightest clue what caused it. The loss of my grandfather seemed to be some sort of trigger. Medication side effects were ruled out too. I have some mild residual symptoms since the attack but it doesn't really bother me. Objects in my peripheral vision start moving slightly if I focus my sight on the same area. The only time it's really noticeable to me is if I'm on the toilet and the doorknob starts twitching sligthly left to right. I haven't had any attacks since then so I don't see it as an issue.

OP, probably the best thing you can do is to be there for your friend and support him as he undergoes psych evaluation. It's a scary experience and the stigma associated with mental illness is another reason he'll need good support from his close surroundings.

Part of me wants to believe you were sleep walking

 

[ahat]

It's more common than people think. Especially with all the stuff they put in weed nowadays. 

I havent burned trees in almost 2yrs but i believe it. It use to have me feeling crazy at times. Plus my boy started smoking early like 12yrs old

 

[cashbanks]

I've never in life heard of someone losing their mind off just weed.

Now freaking out? absolutely, but if someone really loses it that weed was laced.

I had a female cousin get something slipped in her drink she a couple WILD episodes, she's never been right since either.

 

[ahat]

I've never in life heard of someone losing their mind off just weed.

Now freaking out? absolutely, but if someone really loses it that weed was laced.

I had a female cousin get something slipped in her drink she a couple WILD episodes, she's never been right since either.

Cant say if my dudes tree was laced cuz no one was with him and he dont really speak on that night much. If he does its not too detailed but he definitely lost his mind whatever was in his blunt ****** him up big time.

 

[gentrification]

Being from California I don't know weed to be laced like that in 2016. It seems like an east coast thing. They have ****** k2 warning posters all over bk lol

 

[ahat]

Being from California I don't know weed to be laced like that in 2016. It seems like an east coast thing. They have ****** k2 warning posters all over bk lol

That k2 some ********. When i lived in VA i knew a couple dudes who were on papers that smoked that ****. This was like 5-6yrs ago before it was really big. That **** use to have em fried like zombies, like they were there physically but mentally they were gone.

 

[ahat]

^good post. I figured in my homies case it had something to do with him smoking at a young age. Brain definitely wasnt developped and the piff just scrambled his ****

 

[QU!K]

Stories like these scared the **** out of me. Scared of losing my mind.

 

[Nouss]

I started smoking tree at 13. At 20 I started hallucinating and hearing things from regular ole tree. Smokin the same blunt as the homies and even when they were around. I continued smokin for a couple more months but it only got worse so I stopped completely. Aint smoke in 8 years and never will again.

 

[Belgium]

Part of me wants to believe you were sleep walking

That wouldn't explain the hallucinations persisting for almost an entire day though. When I became aware of reality again and that my hallucinations weren't real they still went on for about 10-12 hours

I thought it might have been my sleeping medication (Zopiclone 15mg) but the tox screen and the doctors ruled it out and I still take the same dosage with zero problems.

 

[tireless drive]

I had a sort of psychotic attack in April 2014, a few days after my grandpa died. I don't remember all of it though. I remember going to bed at around 11pm or so, and the next thing I know it's around 7am and I'm downstairs on the bathroom screaming. Mom said I was yelling about shadows chasing me, though I don't recall. Somewhere in the early morning my mom woke up to me screaming upstairs, rolling on the floor in my sheets. Totally separated from reality.
I think it was around 8 or 9am when I started te become aware of reality again and realizing that I was hallucinating. I showered and then went to the ER, at that point I was seeing flies instead of shadows. The ER did a tox screen and some scans, both showing nothing out of the ordinary. By noon I was still hallucinating (dancing clowns in alternating colors at that point) so I was committed into another hospitals' mental ward. The hallucinations went away later that evening, which is apparently very strange. I was given Zyprexa (anti-psychotic) for a few days but I didn't really have any strange symptoms for the rest of my stay.
They released me after a little over a week, clearing me of any mental illness. The doctors told me to get my rather large brain cyst examined further but that didn't provide any answers either. I was born with the cyst and it was never seen as a problem. Several specialists concluded it was possible the cyst played a role but they couldn't really determine that unless they examined my brain as I was having an attack. One of their tests was monitoring my brain for a week while trying to evoke an attack. Probably one of the worst experiences of my life. Forced sleep deprivation, random flashing lights to test for epilepsy, having your whole face and hair full of electric nodes, ... Might as well have been a torture camp. No significant results from that either so it felt like a huge waste of time.

Today I still don't have the slightest clue what caused it. The loss of my grandfather seemed to be some sort of trigger. Medication side effects were ruled out too. I have some mild residual symptoms since the attack but it doesn't really bother me. Objects in my peripheral vision start moving slightly if I focus my sight on the same area. The only time it's really noticeable to me is if I'm on the toilet and the doorknob starts twitching sligthly left to right. I haven't had any attacks since then so I don't see it as an issue.

OP, probably the best thing you can do is to be there for your friend and support him as he undergoes psych evaluation. It's a scary experience and the stigma associated with mental illness is another reason he'll need good support from his close surroundings.

My friend was given Zyprexa also

He was having withdrawals from everything for about a week or so before this went down (xanax, coke, molly, etc.) basically everything
I think what triggered it was the withdrawal plus the lack of sleep

 

[clouds]

its crazy how back in the day if you had visions 

you were considered a prophet and holy but in modern days they label you crazy schizo etc

 

[headdetective]

Green never made me trip.

Can't be smokin wit a million cats.

Solo or one other dude/female is max.

 

[DadNboujee]

My cousin has psychosis, my aunt came over one day with the rest of the family to announce it to us, but she just couldn't, she and her family just took off out of nowhere. She's worked for a mental institution so she knows what she is dealing with and she has the patience.

Anyways, my cousin was all normal and I think what had happened was he started smoking weed that was being grown from my cousin. No special strands just normal stuff. so he was only smoking what my cousin would give him. I guess he couldn't get ahold of our cousin and he got some laced weed from his highschool homies and that's where he started acting differently. This was when Twitter was starting and he got an account and stated posting weird stuff I can't even comprehend. Like it makes no damn sense. I don't know what led up to the diagnosis but I'm guessing it had something to do with his behavior in school. They had to pull him out of senior year and had to finish at home. He's on meds and has evaluations now. He still has his Twitter account and I check it periodically to see if he's posting some off the wall stuff. So I can let his brothers know that he's probably off his meds. On his Twitter, he has this infatuation with certain artists that he tweets and it's creepy. Also occasional "Dikpictures". Yeah

It breaks my heart seeing childhood pictures of us I'm much older than him so I always remember him as the baby.

 

[360waves]

I went through it at 18.

My friends tried to help by hanging out with me and picking me up to go do ****, but we kept smoking and I'd just get mad paranoid and dip or try to call the cops or some wild ****.

It didn't start getting much better until I stopped smoking. It has never completely gone away but I am functioning now and know my boundaries pretty well on what I can and can't handle. I'm not an alcoholic but an alcohol abuser, because I can't stand the way the meds make me feel. They haven't really dialed them down to treat specific symptoms enough and I hate that drowzy zombie feeling. Drinking just takes my anxiety and paranoid thoughts away. I think it's kind of becoming a problem cause I've been reckless (in the mildest sense of the word) and drinking at work and a handful of my coworkers know, plus I'm the supervisor

But I've balled my eyes out for losing my friends. It's just a messed up situation. They didn't understand my illness or know what to do at the time and neither did I. It sucks because they wanted to help but I just kept pushing them away.


This is a good little short about something similar that happened to a skater in the UK.

Thats sad man. He was nice with the board too. Thats crazy how his girl breaking up with him triggered something in his mind and he completely lost it. Hope he gets better

 

[spiceman80]

Mental health is a serious issue, way too many people walking around undiagnosed. Eventually **** hits the fan when it could have been prevented with treatment.

 

[dman14]

cousin manic depressive/bipolar
was off his meds for awhile and and nearly killed someone after a violent rage

 

[sugafree]

 
It's more common than people think. Especially with all the stuff they put in weed nowadays. 

Yep thats why i quit.....I got high one day and started going in depth about the character of my Polish plug.

Thinking like 

1.  What makes you think they don't put psych altering additives in this new "medical grade" weed to always keep thier buyers coming back?

2. Your plug and non of his people smoke this **** at all......

3. This new **** is nothing like the 90s weed...I damn near gotta lock myself in the house and can't drive on this new "medical grade" Sour Diesal

 

[Belgium]

From what I know, weed doesn't directly cause mental illness but it can be a trigger for an underlying condition.

I consulted my specialists first about using cannabis for chronic pain but they all agreed it was fine and as long as I didn't experience any paranoid effects I can use as much as I want.

I live fairly close to the Netherlands border so I get it straight from the coffeeshop, I don't trust shady middlemen.

 

[cashbanks]

From what I know, weed doesn't directly cause mental illness but it can be a trigger for an underlying condition.
I consulted my specialists first about using cannabis for chronic pain but they all agreed it was fine and as long as I didn't experience any paranoid effects I can use as much as I want.
I live fairly close to the Netherlands border so I get it straight from the coffeeshop, I don't trust shady middlemen.

 

[130122]

Yea weed and people who are succeptable to schizophrenia is not a good combo. If you gonna do acid you gotta be 100% committed because if you catch an ego death it's a wrap, also recommend having the greens around to cool you off the trip gets crazy. Joint is a real deal journey

 

[sugafree]

Yea weed and people who are succeptable to schizophrenia is not a good combo. If you gonna do acid you gotta be 100% committed because if you catch an ego death it's a wrap, also recommend having the greens around to cool you off the trip gets crazy. Joint is a real deal journey

Same with Ayahuasca trips to Peru.

Better not to be confronted with demons within yourself you aren't ready to be confronted with

 

[130122]

Yea weed and people who are succeptable to schizophrenia is not a good combo. If you gonna do acid you gotta be 100% committed because if you catch an ego death it's a wrap, also recommend having the greens around to cool you off the trip gets crazy. Joint is a real deal journey

Same with Ayahuasca trips to Peru.

Better not to be confronted with demons within yourself you aren't ready to be confronted with

Hell yea, that peruvian ish is crazy son. They use it as a cleansing of the spirit because when you take that ish everything comes to light and if you aint living the way you want to the trip is gonna be so scary you'll never do what you did in the past

 

[mangudai954]

My cousin some years ago started hearing voice when he was 18. They were telling him to kill my uncle. So late at night he got a knife and tried to stab my uncle while he was sleeping. Fortunately he woke up in time and was able to wrestle it away from him. My cousin said he just wanted the voices to stop. Ever since then he's been on medication for schizophrenia. It make me sad just thinking about it. He use to be so upbeat and positive. Now he's a borderline zombie.

Mental health is a serious issue, way too many people walking around undiagnosed. Eventually **** hits the fan when it could have been prevented with treatment.

Real **** man.

In just the past 2-3 years I've been hearing so many stories of people "snapping" and then having to deal with a mental illness that was probably lying in the background for a long time. I've been trying to figure out what the cause is: Often time its something as simple as being under a lot of stress that can bring it out. But why? Other times its drugs.