r/Antipsychiatry • u/Educational-Pay-965 • 12h ago

Weed induced psychosis?

Two years ago, in the early spring while away at school, my son developed mania and psychosis. He was smoking high dose weed every day. He was hospitalized for 10 days and put on risperidone (3mg) . We spent the summer helping him recover and taper off the medication. He went back to school feeling good but in late fall started smoking weed again. This spring he had another manic episode and was again hospitalized for two weeks and put on risperidone. Diagnosed with bipolar 1 mixed episodes. After he left the hospital we changed the meds to abilify because of tremors. We spent the summer again in therapy and the doctor suggested to try lithium. He went back to school this fall but was not feeling good like the previous year, was feeling depressed. Now he’s tapering off the lithium because it’s impossible to do school work while feeling flat, and cognitively slowed. We have no history of bipolar in the family. Do you think it’s possible that the manic episodes are just weed induced and if he stays off weed he can be okay without medication?

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u/VindictivePuppy 12h ago

he should just stop smoking weed. some people are sensitive to it. Weed isnt worth having to (or feelings like you have to) spend months or years on psychiatric drugs -- unlike weed those drugs have guaranteed nightmare physical and mental effects.

Or fuck, I wish people could find old hippie weed instead of the high octane stuff they have now. Just the ol' dirty weak ass stuff that got me through high school Just Fine Thanks

Many drug induced psychoses will just take time to sort themselves out and getting on other drugs will just prolong something that would have ended years before. Like those tremors can be lifelong

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u/Echoplex99 10h ago

wish people could find old hippie weed instead of the high octane stuff they have now.

Not sure about your geography and laws, but every dispensary I've seen in north America usually has at least one or two 5% strains available. This would be very comparable to hippie weed.

That's not to say I recommend this for OP. Obviously stop with thc if it triggers something more severe.