weed can't cause schizophrenia
but there are drugs and shyt that happen in life that can trigger deep issues. people with mental illness tend to use drugs as the coping method. i guarantee all the people, people are posting about in here who came off as "seemingly" normal then did some drugs and became all weird and shyt had mental illness issues already but they werent full blown or it wasn't visibly noticeable, TO YOU. or something else happened in their life that really fukked with them and there are triggers. there are certain things that can trigger my mania or my depression. mental illness gets worse as you get older and experience more "tragic" emotionally and mentally affecting things.
when i was a kid, i was a real loner.. had no friends, had trouble interacting people, felt like i didn't belong, always assumed no one liked me, did some weird shyt, was kinda a bad kid... but once i got older and the affect of the dysfunctional alcoholic, not the best parenting environment i was being raised in and then experienced terrible bullying in middle school.. my issues got worse.
other than the fact, that I really should and need to get help.. a big reason why I recently took a step to get my bipolar in check is because bipolar 1 can progress where the person starts getting psychosis and experiencing schizophrenia symptoms. i've never heard or saw shyt, but it scares the shyt out of me to think that my illness could progress into that as i get older.
most people who "know me", other than close family members and 2 non family members, don't even know Im bipolar and struggle with bipolar, anxiety and really deep self esteem issues. i talked to this person one day, I've known since I was like 16 (im about to be 25) about it, after he asked me where I've been the past year (i go through period of mania where i become sociable and hype for a few weeks or 2 months..then really bad long depression where I just don't talk to anymore or hang out with people besides family for long periods of time and just like disappear) he was like "wow, really? you don't seem like that at all.. you've always seemed really happy and confident and like "normal". which to me, was so fukking weird.
so it's simplistic to be an outsider and just be like "i knew some guy who was normal, had his shyt together blah blah... then he smoked weed or did psychedelics and now he's crazy". no, he probably always had some issues, they went untreated and got worse with life experience and time.
@hypo666