>>13927508Not a schizo myself, but my mom is and I'm worried one day I'll develop it too. Is there any way to prevent it?
I have an interesting story actually. My mom smokes a lot of pot from ages 12-onwards, and started hearing voices frequently around 28, but kept on smoking it. The exact same thing happened to my uncle, but he stopped smoking pot and he never developed schizophrenia.
I've also done a lot of drugs, primarily stimulants, and occasionally I will lose a bit of my sanity and start hearing/seeing things that aren't there. In those instances I just force myself to forget it and not care about it. Sometimes it's hard to know the difference, but I can usually snap myself out of it, then distract myself with other things until it's gone completely. None of my symptoms have been major, I'm just hyper aware of my own thought process. One huge problem I've noticed with my mom is that while she claims to think about things logically, she will always base everything on her emotions and intuition, allowing them to control how she thinks. If something is giving me stress, and there isn't a logical explanation, I will immediately forget about it and move on. It's why I don't involve myself in politics at all.
