This presentation by A. Eden Evins, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine at Mass General was part of Schizophrenia Education Day 2018: …

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  1. OK, let's look at the big picture. First of all, a big 4D reality exists, and it is known as Space-Time. But, we are confined to a smaller 3D reality that is composed of three spatial dimensions, along with being confined to only the "NOW" time. But, most importantly, the 4D reality exists. If however, for what ever reason, your mind spills into the 4D reality of Space-Time, you will now see and hear and feel things that the rest of the population do not. Sadly, those who exist in the 4D reality tend to torment those who have spilled into their realm. They then proceed to mess with the minds of those who have extended into the 4D reality. They coordinate the victims thoughts with things such as the contents of a movie such that the victim is absolutely convinced that a character within the movie is having a bidirectional conversation with that victim. Or, the victims forced thoughts are coordinated such that the victim is absolutely convinced that the people surrounding them are reading their very mind due to what they are saying being related to the victims real time thoughts. Meanwhile, psychiatrists say that they are in touch with reality, but clearly this is not the case at all. If one is in touch with reality, then one knows what reality is, and thus one also knows how to create it. But psychiatrists do not have this skill at all. Far far from it.

  2. I smoke with borderline schizoaffective disorder/ocd every day and have been for a long time. The symptoms are going to be there regardless of the weed, I was this way before weed. I consider the cannabis the best possible treatment, sometimes it makes me a little too quiet, but considering what the Seroquel did to me a few years ago, I'm taking my chances with Marijuana. It does an excellent job of comforting me with a condition that is still yet uncurable. I'd say the humanitarian thing to do, would be to make sure ALL people suffering from diseases that are socially debilitating have marijuana for comfort.

  3. Jeez lady
    Part of schizophrenia is that you become incredibly irritated when things are moving really slow
    This is the slowest speaking person I’ve ever seen
    The whole beginning made me want to punch a hole through my screen
    The amount of “umm”s and “ahh”s
    It’s genuinely making me want to scream

  4. I need to vent. My son treats all of us like really badly unless he is high.He has called my a whore bitch.I have to accept that he is very sick, and if i have to cut him out of my life I will. I do remove myself form his presence more and more. He has schizo affective disorder and he has gotten worse since he started smoking weed. He gets a Haldol shot 2 times a month I just need to trust Gods providence and let him go

  5. I'm sorry lady but I really don't think you know what you're talking about. I am a mother of a schizo frantic child whom I adopted at 5 days old. His birth mother had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. My son had what they called ADHD from the age of 5 and saw various psychiatry lists and count slurs and various medications were given to him over the years until he turned 17 and a 1/2.
    At 12 years old as one psychiatry is told me would be the case probably the ADHD was a misdiagnosis for something that doesn't show up until early adolescence which is bipolar disorder and is the rapid cycling kind. At 17 and a 1/2 we started noticing odd behaviors and becoming frightened of our child only to have him diagnosed with schizophrenia with other psychotic disorder and rapid cycling bipolar disorder
    My son does not due street drugs his birth mother did but she did so after this psychotic problems in schizophrenia
    I believe it depends on The Strain of the marijuana with regards to psychotic behaviors as a result of marijuana.
    What I find interesting is how hypocritical so many doctors are especially when it comes to treatments that work for children young adults and elderly people who need medications that doctors or president at this point think might be addictive. In the meantime people are suffering and that goes against the oath you take when you become a doctor.
    Do no harm but you were also supposed to do all you can to see to it that you bring healing and comfort to those in medical need
    After for emergency Room visits to to a psychiatric ER and to to a regular ear we've come to know different medicines that are given in the hospital Room and for patients to take home until they could see their. One of the visits was for self harming by cutting himself in the neck with a cheese grater! You see hes convinced that the people in the neighborhood are conspiring to kill him and nothing could be further from the truth other than the devil himself
    What was found during his 1st out of 2 hospitalizations over the last 2 months was that the new generation of medication they're using for schizophrenia does not work on my son so they went back a generation and gave him Thorazine. It works to a degree for shore when in the right dosage but it's not a drug that's readily available at any pharmacy it has to be gotten at a hospital.
    However at the ER they gave him 2 medications they gave him xanax and they gave him seroqui.
    The xanax worked so well I was shocked that I finally had my child acting like everybody else in societee! He was enthusiastic excited relieved and wasn't suffering anymore. When we got to his psychiatry us we were told O we don't even write that prescription he could get used to it. Like with pain medication.. Pain medication doesn't make people with pain Hi what it does is it goes directly to the pain and takes it away but does make people Hi who don't need it which is why I'd recommend a safe for all medications not just narcotics. But that's another story
    So here the medical establishment has a cure in a sense that would change my son into being able to get the high school diploma he wants not AGE D quick fix but they won't give it to him. Mind you he had a talk screen and no street drugs were ever found in his system. He had these every time I visited the hospital because they thought that perhaps his behavior was due to a legal street drug use which it was not he was clean.
    Hes been 18 for 2 weeks now. I would think as an 18 year old it should be his decision whether or not he wants to take xanax because the medication they have a mine does not allow him to focus enough to finish school, to focus on anything for any length of time except for the voices that he hears that are supposedly our neighbors plotting to kill him.
    They're happy to give him a bill if I their happy to give AMC the other medications but nothing worked as well as xanax.
    As a parent whether of a natural born child or adopt it does not matter this is my child and watching him suffer has been the worst experience of my life next to the threat of being harmed every day if he say the wrong thing or don't believe what hes telling you.

  6. Beautiful Medical Cannabis was killing my son triggered zquisofrenia and if I dont put him on rehab he was gonna kill us…have fun getting high assholes…oh I tried myself once was enough and straight from the dispensary sending me on a trip of psychosis…..you guys are miserable assholes…happy ppl dont need that shit or to ruin others..not only the mental damage but the physical too..you guys want ppl on disability buying you guys products making you guys rich

  7. I am schizoaffective and when I can smoke my family love it because I am smiling and happy. I am able to eat and I am active and out going, if I don't smoke I am constantly depressed and struggle with simple things a lot of people take for granted. Why I still hear things or see things other people can't I do prefer to be stoned vs being sober but I wish I could do it with a dr.s help to find a way to dose it evenly so I am not to stoned. But its still illegal and I have to just hope I can find it when I need it most.

  8. This lady needs to do more research and get her facts straight. Speaking like there are no strains genetically altered to produce more cbd than thc. There are to many existing strains with different properties and effects for this research and theory to be proven. The fact is everyone's brain works differently. It is up to the individual to try different remedies to see what works and what doesn't.

  9. Everyone in the comment section saying your weed made your brain bad must not know their weed was laced or refuse to think any other factor my have played a hand but remember this ladies and gentleman some people have called an ambulance for cannabis when they were dehydrated from it's use but no one has ever died from cannabis use ever.

  10. The core connection with THC and Schizophrenic episodes is the negative affect of anxiety.

    If you smoke, eat, drink or snort ___ and ___ is known to cause anxiety or even worse paranoia in neuro-typical users – 99% of all Schizophrenics should avoid that substance like the plague, period.

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