Drug induced psychosis...

Can anyone please tell me some personal expriences with having Drug. I. P or have ever been with anyone that has had it. My boyfriend was diagnosed with it this time last year. He went into a mental home for a whie and recovered. But he last night was...

the second time he went crazy at me and its just scarring me. I dont know what to do. I spoke to his mother about him last night after he went to bed and she knows that he has a problem and is trying to get him some more profession help. But I dont want him to be angry with me because I spoke to her. He is the nicest person I have ever met but when he gets into these moods I feel like I dont even know who he is..

give him a big blunt when he gets mad it calms me down like i have adhd and i get supper pissed off at little things and i just toke up and im calm again

yes by i dont think giving him more drugs will help

It was when I did shrooms for the first time. Similar thing. I would get manic and sometimes paranoid and anxious. The psychosis took a while to kick in. In retrospect, as the stress in my life increased, that also seemed to make my condition worsen. It started manifesting itself as forgetfullness. I began to get worried as I misplaced things more and more frequently. Then I started to write pages and pages of jibberish (about 20 some pages in all). I thought I could write a nobel prize winning essay on some sort of fucked up social economics. It started to get worse as it approached finals time at my college (about a month after me ingesting the shrooms). I believed extra-dimensional beings could talk to me and things like that. I ended up having another panic attack in which I doubted my mothers existance and attacked her. Then I spent 24 hours in jail (it was crazy). After that I spent six days in the mental ward of a hospital where they put me on Zyprexa (anti-psychotic) and clonazepam (anti-anxiety) and Lorazepam (?) (anti-anxiety). The psychotic symptoms eventually passed after about a month or two. Sometimes I kind of miss them. I had a lot of fun believing I was Neo in the Matrix of the mental ward : ). Your story made me remember mine. I had no idea that you could develop a real psychiatric disorder from drug use before my little incidence. Stay clean, brother.

David

Hello
I have done just about every drug there is and in every possible form. My drug of choice is Meth, but I've done mostly coke in the last 5 years..as a result, I've got a huge hole in the center of my nose and many stemming issues. I do think the psychosis/delirium are accumulated over time depending on the drug your boyfriend is using. As a user then and now, I still take the time to educate myself on the psychological effects these drugs can and will have. Coke and speed are the ONLY drugs that change the actual brain structure. (In other words, if I had a catscan, my brain would look noticeably disfigured due to prolonged use.) It's true!! I notice changes in myself over years of abuse, I won't lie..distorted perception, short term memory loss, peripheral hallucinations, erratic from time to time...these are all the things that make up psychosis..I've not reached the level your friend has but with continued use, I will. You may try a treatment center or Web MD

Best Wishes
Laci
Laci