psy-pup

i have been smoking for 8 years
which in the last 2 years more like 3 to 4 times a week .
last month after 2 days from the day i smoked
i started to hearing voices at work
its come and go and it was the frightening expirence i have ever had
i realy thought i was loosing it after 4 days its started to fog out
and since then like 1 month i havent touch weed
after this experience i have decided to stop smoking but i still one to smoke
in partys ones in a while my fear is it will come back

i dont know what to do?

do you think
it can come back from smoking ones a while????

please let me know your advice it realy important to me?

Buzzby

Were the voices distinct and talking to you, or kind of vague background noises? If it's the latter, you might simply have been hearing real voices at a distance and you'd never noticed it before. I find that happens sometimes when I'm high. I'll also interpret environmental sounds (wind, water, car tires, etc.) as music or voices.

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Mamabudz

As I mentione din my other post to you on the same question -- marijuana will not CAUSE Schizophrenia, which has as part of it's list of symptoms "auditory hallucinations" -- hearing voices.

You are concerned that your "hearing voices in your head" was caused by your smoking marijuana. Without more information, it would be impossible and irresponsible to try to diagnose why you heard something.

Obviously this situation has raised a warning flag for you -- and it should.

What you have described here is a classic sign of a mental condition that could be schizophrenia or any of a variety of schizo- disorders.

You SHOULD be seen by a mental health professional for a full evaluation without delay if for no other reason than to allay (set aside) your fears.

Until you have seen a doctor -- you probably should not smoke marijuana as it might trigger an anxiety attack simply because you are anxious about the possibility of an underlying condition.

Pots been around for a few aeons ...it will still be here after you see the doctor

enlighten

Mamabudz- how can you be so sure marijuana can't cause schizophrenia with possible recent evidence? Isn't there a possibility?

Buzzby

The recent research says that heavy marijuana smoking in young males who are susceptible to schizophrenia may result in an earlier development of the disease than would happen otherwise.

The methodology is questionable. The same results would occur if young males with early symptoms of mental illness were prone to smoke a lot of marijuana in an effort to alleviate their distress.

Mamabudz

Because schizophrenia is a gentically linked illness.

Marijuana use dow not effect your genetics -- you are born with the genetic design or pattern you will live out your life under -- how this gentic pattern plays out is dependent on both internal and external stimuli.

There has been recent allegations that cannabis use in young adult males may precipitate an early onset of schizo-typal disorders in those with a genetic pre-disposition to these disorders; however these allegations are not well supported across environmental (social, economic, regional) influences and the research itself may be biased to find this specific outcome.

A connection between marijuana use and an anti-social effect on a small number of young males between 15 and 28 has been seen in the literature on this plant since the days of the British in India. ANd it was otherwsie found to be benign.

So if there a small sample of males who will become obnoxious, belligerant, nasty and possibly physically antisocial when using cannabis, which I think there is, by recognizing this effect we can rely on our communities and those we have in place to protect us from these adolescent male outbursts, distract them and redirect them towards better uses of their time. There is evidence of this being a method that works quite well among humans.

In fact identical outbursts among small numbers of adolescent males in most of the larger mammalian species occur, and are kept under control by the larger society of animals and the older males of the group. Elephants come to mind as an example of this behaviour.

Asking that we deal with this unexceptional behaviour in our own young males isn't asking too much of our own human society, at least it isn't in my opinion.

quoting

How could you know if its really mental, mabey its spiritual. Could be voices of deceased.

ChronicSmoke7

welcome to the club!
For real no big deal, happens to the best of us, but i'm considered a passive agressive psychotic, who has A.D.D.. The Plus side is you can start seeing good from evil and other underworld crazy ****.

J/k though, you should probably see a doctor, but watch out for the pill pushers!!

Did I mention also obsessive compulsive?