# Do you think drugs caused your psychosis **URL:** \ **Category:** Diagnosed Sz or Sza\ **Created:** [June 11, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177 "2026-06-11T18:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fisherman1992](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/fisherman1992/32/8077_2.png) [@Fisherman1992](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Fisherman1992)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/1 "2026-06-11T18:25:13Z")
Im interested in this topic alot of people blame pot on there mental illnesses I think ritalin caused a early onset but i smoked pot AFTER my first hospitalization actually 3 hospitalizations before i even tried pot Its a very interesting topic to me ---
**Author:** ![Schizbro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/schizbro/32/16560_2.png) [@Schizbro](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Schizbro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/2 "2026-06-11T18:43:59Z")
Possibly. IDK. My sense is that I had some warning signs as a kid growing up, but I used the drug accutane at 16 just before onset of psychosis, which it is known to cause it. Also weed since 13. Who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Wave](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/wave/32/14465_2.png) [@Wave](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Wave)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/3 "2026-06-11T18:44:56Z")
I think that it sped up the process ---
**Author:** ![77nick77](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/77nick77/32/147_2.png) [@77nick77](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/77nick77)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/4 "2026-06-11T18:45:27Z")
I believe a few bad acid trips triggered my schizophrenia. I believe I would have become schizophrenic if I had never taken acid but it just hastened the onset. Pot probably played a part too. ---
**Author:** ![Jabrown1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/jabrown1/32/15923_2.png) [@Jabrown1](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Jabrown1)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/5 "2026-06-11T18:52:43Z")
I think from a head injury in football in school I got a bad concussion.. and for sure maruijuana ---
**Author:** ![Schztuna](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/schztuna/32/82_2.png) [@Schztuna](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Schztuna)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/6 "2026-06-11T18:55:51Z")
Always been a little off, but I think the drugs defos exacerbated things. ---
**Author:** ![Vaiana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/vaiana/32/1879_2.png) [@Vaiana](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Vaiana)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/7 "2026-06-11T18:59:56Z")
I wasn’t taking drugs when it happened (in my 20s) But it’s true I drank a lot of alcohol in middle school ---
**Author:** ![Catman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/catman/32/14_2.png) [@Catman](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Catman)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/8 "2026-06-11T19:18:56Z")
No drugs for me. I have had trauma and a lot of stress, so maybe an environmental component. That said, I’ve always felt off since I was a very young boy. ---
**Author:** ![firemonkey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/firemonkey/32/1229_2.png) [@firemonkey](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/firemonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/9 "2026-06-11T19:30:03Z")
No drugs. Very much stress driven. There was nowhere near the level of help and support back then, as a child and teenager. as is available now. It was very much the ‘dark ages’ ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hope](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/mr_hope/32/7092_2.png) [@Mr\_Hope](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Mr_Hope)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/10 "2026-06-11T21:48:44Z")
Sometimes I have a belief a former colleague that I was in conflict with drugged some cookies she offered a day at work, because that was one of the last things that happened before my first psychosis. I know it’s theoretically possible, but she was offering the cookies to others as well, so then she would have to somehow predict which one I would take. I know it’s almost certainly a disillusion, but the thought lingers in the back of my head. Silly, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/zoe/32/7475_2.png) [@Zoe](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/11 "2026-06-12T00:00:09Z")
I think genetics, trauma, chronic stress, and mdma overdose. Recipe for disaster ---
**Author:** ![Twialine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/twialine/32/735_2.png) [@Twialine](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Twialine)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/12 "2026-06-12T00:20:39Z")
I was diagnosed at 22 and hadn’t had anything harder than a margarita on my 21st birthday and a wine cooler every now and then so idk what caused mine ---
**Author:** ![anon36616321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anon36616321](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/anon36616321)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/13 "2026-06-12T01:38:17Z")
I took CBD before I went to the hospital but was in psychosis for 2 years before that. ---
**Author:** ![Corion](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/corion/32/8884_2.png) [@Corion](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Corion)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/14 "2026-06-12T02:10:17Z")
I hadn’t smoked pot or used a drug for over a year when I got psychosis. I was under a lot of stress as I had a big fight coming up and actually fought and won while I was psychotic. ---
**Author:** ![Batik21](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/batik21/32/12655_2.png) [@Batik21](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Batik21)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/15 "2026-06-12T02:23:37Z")
I tried Marijuana the first and second times almost 40 years sheet my first psychosis. And I now know it makes my paranoia particularly bad ---
**Author:** ![77nick77](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/77nick77/32/147_2.png) [@77nick77](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/77nick77)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/16 "2026-06-12T02:50:38Z")
Well, they didn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Rainstorm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/rainstorm/32/242_2.png) [@Rainstorm](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Rainstorm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/17 "2026-06-12T02:52:35Z")
Not drugs, but thugs ---
**Author:** ![Honeysuckle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/honeysuckle/32/14075_2.png) [@Honeysuckle](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Honeysuckle)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/18 "2026-06-12T02:59:48Z")
No drugs or thugs here lol. I was a good girl who stayed out of trouble. I’ve never even had a puff of a cigarette. D.A.R.E. told me no drugs, and I listened hehehe. ---
**Author:** ![Ish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Ish](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Ish)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 6:05am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/19 "2026-06-12T06:05:14Z")
I have never tried drugs, I just got unlucky. ---
**Author:** ![kali](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/kali/32/12634_2.png) [@kali](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/kali)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 6:27am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177/20 "2026-06-12T06:27:49Z")
No drugs really, just inbuilt reasons, prodromal symptoms and all from an early age. [Next page](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/do-you-think-drugs-caused-your-psychosis/6177.md?page=2)