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Chiinny. asked in HealthMental Health · 1 decade ago

Schizophrenia and marijuana?

My boyfriend is Schizophrenic, he is also a heavy user of weed.

He was diagnosed before he started using.

He started to be violent, and I've noticed serious changes since we've started being together (5 months)

He's planned ahead for our future, and wants to stay together for long.

okay basically, I've lost feelings for him, I'm scared for my future and because my mother is bi polar and is a recovering junkie and alcoholic, I'm trying to regain some balance in my set of mind, i want to leave the relationship as easy as i can...? making sure he doesn't do something absolutely dreadful, to anyone.

He doesn't know how i feel, as i cant talk to him.

My family are worried to his reaction for when i leave him.

I've talked about it with friends, but i need advice.

I ask for serious answers, please.

Thanks.

and also, I'd like to mention, i tried so hard, talking to him, dealing with it, this is literally my only option. also, I'm also being diagnosed with bi polar myself, and I'm managing to get better... i just need to be in a stable environment, I'd really like to see your opinions. Thanks. :)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I'm really sorry to hear this is happening in your life.Both bi polar and

    Schizophrenia are enduring mental health problems.

    Using weed whilst ill like this is just going to complicate the mental health problems and you are right to want to make that break from your partner.

    If he has a CPN or a counsellor I think its best that you openly tell him you cant be together whilst they are with him so they can provide that support immediately,yes its going to be very very hard but you aren't responsible for any actions that he may make when you tell him.

    My ex partner had very bad depression but nothing like you are going through. When we broke up he just stayed in bed for 2 weeks.It was painful but it had to be done as we just weren't good for each other anymore.

    I am sure you have supportive parents and friends and they are who you should lean on when the time comes

    Good luck

  • 1 decade ago

    There is no doubt, whether or not regarding the issue of law, that the drug is a psychoactive.

    The mental condition, when it makes a person unpredictably out of character, is something you must take fully into consideration while you contemplate any course of action - and I do not think even the oldest & wisest of people would have much better advice than to make good on the cleanest, most clinical decision whichever way; To absolutely spell it out - your feelings, the state of the relationship and the circumstances you are in - and yet to not impose it, for it may afflict the disorder and aggravate it tempestuously - if you desire change from all this..., or the things the same as they are now just on your own terms, or with at least due consideration to your point of view (which must be reeling from a lack of sustained unity in all matters of a domestic life) - then you could well use a vantage point, somewhere with no paper trail - more than just a hideout for doing something that's more than just avoidance. If it is distressing you then you are creating distress in response - which will only worsen....

    Source(s): I was once diagnosed as 'borderline', so I turned back and stayed this side of it.
  • 1 decade ago

    Hi. I know where you're coming from. My mom is Schizophrenic and paranoid and trust me, they can't hear what you are saying. Their thoughts are too bound up into their own personal turmoil to listen. They perceive the world differently than you and I and they don't want to change. As far as your boyfriend and the weed though, he's making it worse by smoking. Some marijuana actually brings on a schizophrenic high, and with him already like that? Girl, it only gets worse if they don't get help. Don't feel bad about leaving him if he won't get help. Don't beat yourself up either, when you are a child of a mentally ill parent, sometimes we end up with crazy people because that's what we know and are comfortable with.

    My first boyfriend was a pothead and was a little nuts...he thought it was cool to collect buckets of screws and bolts, scratch sulfur off matches, and make guns with them. I'm glad I got out of there before I ended up his target practice!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    be afraid, be very afraid... and get the hell out of there as fast as your little legs can carry you.

    teenage stoners are as much of a danger to to others, as they are to themselves...

    i know, ive been weeding for over 25years... and have seen lots of disasters... basically young minds cannot deal with the paranoia or the persecution complex which one gets with good weed...

    however, i have noticed a tendency to "load it" and indeed they put a gramme into a spliff, and wonder why it forks them up...

    imagine drinking a JD, and imagine drinking a bottle of JD... one shot wont hurt you and yo get a nice buzz, same happens with spliffs, one is a happy giggly hilarious high... one too many is a terrible paranoid persecution complex...

    and depending on what sort of weed it is, depends on the hit you get... eveidently theres different types of cannabinoids A and B... a gets you shitfaced and having fun, while B gets you paranoid and is no fun whatsoever...

    so, step away from the bong... wait till your BF is shitfaced sideways, and tell him its over... he'll just laugh, and pass out...

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  • spazzy
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    i have bipolar. can you talk to his family about it so when you leave him they can give him support of dose he have a cpn or social worker you can let them know. when i split with my girlfriend i had a mental breakdown because i did not tell anybody at the time

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