Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds
I have some experience with this. My first wife was diagnosed with schizophrenia after birthing a stillborn baby. This was about 14 month after we had our first child. One of her doctors insisted the cause was marijuana, but she really did smoke much at all. I did most everyday though and one of the first questions he asked was if we used it.<p>I told him I thought it was caused by losing the baby and he insisted that had nothing at all to do with it. I knew for sure he was wrong, but he refused to even consider it. But there was more to it than that.<p>Her grandmother was clearly schizophrenic, and her mother was probably was too. Just a few months before this her mother told me she &quot;hated&quot; our first child because &quot;she looks like you&quot; (it was me she was referring to).<p>This was in 1986. 15 years later, in 2001, a woman name Andrea Yates murdered her five children and that was when psychiatrist first diagnosed severe &quot;Post Partum Depression&quot; as the cause of what led her to do that.<p>During those years in between I had pointed out that connection many times to psychiatrists and everyone of them told me I was wrong and they all loved to make the point that I didn&#x27;t have the credentials to offer a diagnoses of cause. But what I did have that none of them had was real life experience watching my wife slide into schizophrenia.<p>Schizophrenia is genetic and stress is a trigger. It often doesn&#x27;t show up until one is an adult. By that time almost anyone will have taken a puff of weed and if a doctor asks them &quot;have you ever used marijuana&quot; and they say &quot;yes&quot;, in my experience it doesn&#x27;t matter how often, using it just once, even years prior, is enough for them to associate cause and effect.<p>Truth is you can learn something from anyone if you listen to them. If you don&#x27;t, you won&#x27;t. What I learned is psychiatry is still pretty much bullshit and the medical profession still doesn&#x27;t understand the causes or how to treat schizophrenia effectively. They manage it by giving those suffering with it drugs that are akin to turning their patients into slobbering &quot;zombies&quot; so they can manage them.