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? asked in HealthMental Health · 4 months ago

What is the % of people that fully recover from a drug induced psychosis?

I have a marijuana induced psychosis and I'm wondering the chances of a full recover đŸ€Ł I know u might need a lot more information but it's hard to explain it all.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 months ago

    You don't have marijuana psychosis what you have is artificial cannabinoid psychosis you got marijuana and you've been getting marijuana that's been sprayed with the same artificial cannabinoids that they use to make spikes if marijuana has been causing psychosis it's for that reason very few people ever get a dangerous psychosis from real marijuana.

    but the artificial cannabinoids that they're using nowadays to spray on weed so that they can call it crypto or loud they're notorious for causing paranoid schizophrenic behavior anyway get off the crap in about a year you'll start to recover

  • Anonymous
    4 months ago

    It’s okay. Wears off, just is a process. Definitely NOT permanent. I had bad marijuana induced psychotic episodes twice in my life. Each time it took about two weeks for enough of the THC to leave my system so I felt like I was at least on my way back to getting back to baseline, or ‘normal’...whatever that is. LOL. But don’t worry about it you’ll get back to your old self again if that’s where you want to be.

    It could take more or less time than a few weeks depending on your brain your body chemistry, what kind of pot you smoked, percentage of THC, how much you smoked etc.But it’s never permanent. 

    Even if it takes a couple of months before it completely goes away it’s not going to be permanent. It has its own schedule I guess, depending  upon various factors.

    What usually happens is you start to feel better and then you might have a trigger,  like somebody might bring up the subject of pot or psychosis or whatever and you might start having some almost flashback-like ‘psychotic’ symptoms again briefly or momentarily. Then it goes away. 

    And then after a while there won’t be any little episodes anymore, it will just be pretty much over with.

    So the acute phase is over may be a couple of weeks, could be more or less depending on the individual and the previously mentioned factors, then you might still have some little episodes but they get less and less frequent. 

    Like you might get feelings of unreality, like those ‘depersonalization’ or ‘derealization’ experiences, I guess what they called “dissociative episodes” in psychology (?), every so often but they are shorter and they become less and less frequent. 

    It’s all just brain stuff, the brain is a pretty fascinating organ and is capable of a lot of experiences which people normally do not have but which can be induced by substances. 

    Some people enjoy that, other people maybe not so much. But it’s all brain stuff. It’s not permanent though. Some people are more affected by THC because it affects the rear part of their brain, from what I’ve read,  and with other people it affects the front part of their brain and with the people it affects the rear part of their brain, they tend to have more of these types of ‘trippy’ experiences with pot and fair amount of paranoia and so on.So maybe you’re one of those people. I know I am. That’s why I don’t mess around with pot that much. I’m just one of those people who is sensitive to pretty much everything.

    Yeah, the couple of times I had psychotic episodes from pot it was really pretty much like a bad acid trip I imagine, even though I’ve never dropped acid. Which is probably a good thing in my case. Like I said, I’m just very sensitive to substances in general. 

    Yeah with my cannabis-induced ‘psychotic’ episodes I was walking around having some hallucinations, etc. The first time I had one of these psychotic episode I thought that there was a conspiracy of witches and warlocks out to get me and I ended up being hospitalized for that one unfortunately,  but the second time I was able to avoid that. 

    During the second episode, many years later, I actually spent a couple of weeks almost walking around not knowing if I was dead or alive. Kept going to a job I had at a health food store which was kind of weird I guess. I also went to a naturopathic doctor who gave me a homeopathic remedy which might’ve been homeopathic cannabis (?) ...to help me detox and come down from the experience. 

    I don’t know if it actually worked or not or just had a placebo effect but it seemed to help somewhat.

    Towards the end of the two weeks I went into a McDonald’s and was waiting in line to order and the other people in line looked like they were made out of rubber,  But by that time it didn’t bother me as much and was maybe even a little bit enjoyable because I was already starting to detox from the cannabis and was getting back to baseline again.

    But yeah, all sorts of really weird trippy stuff. And that’s not even all of it but it was weird, believe me. 

    So the first time I had one of those two episodes was while I was living in New York City so that probably made it even weirder. 

    The second time I was in more of a suburban/rural setting and it wasn’t quite as intense....when  I was working at the health food store and kept going to work every day even though I was walking around not knowing if I was dead or alive, LOL...I can laugh at it now but it wasn’t funny at all at the time believe me.

    But a lot of the other people who worked in the store were potheads too, including the person I bought the offending pot from, so I was able to talk to them about my symptoms anyway and they made me feel a little bit more at ease about the whole thing. Just try to be around people as much as you can and talk to people, that also helps distract you from any lingering ‘unreality’ symptoms you might be having. Distraction is a good thing in these cases.

    I also find that setting has a lot to do with it with me in terms of potentially triggering these episodes. If I smoked pot with people I wasn’t entirely comfortable with...and  in my case those times involve smoking out with women I was sexually involved with for some reason... I would have these trippy episodes. If I smoked it with people I was more comfortable with it wouldn’t turn out that way.

    Also if you know how to do any type of meditation like a mantra meditation or any other types, sometimes that can help also. It helped me a little bit when I was trying to get myself back down from these weird experiences with pot.

    But basically it’s just a waiting game. I think THC gets stored in the fat cells including the fat cells in the brain so sometimes it just takes a while to leave your system but it does eventually.

    The thing about pot these days as compared to the type of pot they had when I was younger growing up in the ‘60s, etc. is that the THC content is just ridiculous nowadays. 

    In the past it was much lower so you tended not to have such extreme and trippy reactions to it, even though it was still possible to react that way depending on your individual brain chemistry and how much of a tolerance you had for it. But everything is different now and it seems like most recreational pot strains are grown to be as high THC as possible.

  • 4 months ago

    There is no such thing as drug induced psychosis, I told you this in your comment below.  Since it is not real and no one has it 0% recover.  

  • Anonymous
    4 months ago

    60 % within a month of terminating.

    Glad you posted this.  No one talks about the harm of marijuana.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+the+%25+of...

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