Reply #48: It figures. [View All]

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An anecdote: a friend of a friend has a daughter who is schizophrenic. The young lady (late teens) was put on medication for her bipolar disorder but she never stayed with any of them. She would start to feel good and go off them. After trying several pharmaceutical options and never staying with them she tried pot but didn't like it. She said it heightened her "otherness" and she wasn't comfortable with it. Which makes me wonder. How many other people, who are schizophrenic, try pot because they don't like what the doctors are prescribing?

fwiw, I have a stepdaughter who is bipolar with psychotic episodes which why the story was brought up originally.