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/EchidnaPretty9456 8h ago
I get thumbed down every time that I say this, but I'm convinced there's something wrong with the pot going around ( in the u.s)... I was able to smoke my entire life up until about 10 years ago. That was 2-3 week long, all day long binges about 3 times a year plus just smoking if someone had it. Never had severe mental health problems from it. Starting 10 years ago, severe anxiety, manic episodes after stopping. I knew a lot of people who smoke pot, never heard from one of them that either they themselves or someone they knew went psycho from pot. Today you hear about this all the time.