[Dante91]

Hello!
I'm new member at PsychCentral.com

My Story
I was normal 21 year old electrical technician. Then I started to smoke weed, first at weekends, then daily use. About one year I smoked very heavily, like 0,5g - 1g / day, but I were still able to do my job etc. Then one cloudy day, I needed some smoke. There were this one guy who sold me this product called "spice, JWH-018:aa, CP 47,497". Don't ever try this drug!
wikipedia/synthetic_cannabis

It looked like cannabis, but it wasn't it. I smoked and smoked it, but it felt like I can get more and more higher everytime I smoked. 10 grams "spice" in 2-3 days. After those days I were different person; aggressive, paranoid, delusions and psychotic. But I didn't realize it but over 1 year after usage. I'm still suffering these symptoms.

My daily medicine is only 1mg risperdal and I know it wont help much, because my symptoms are from synthetic cannabis chemicals and antipsychotics don't work very well. I don't know what to do next. I'm scared, my pupils are dilated all the time. I fear people, neighbors, sounds, friends, everyone. When I walk around, I see signs of people left me, like items, car registration plates, commercials etc, but I can realize that part of these signs aren't true. Sometimes I can't realize what are true signs and which are not. I can do my daily tasks at home. But I'm still all the time in permanent acute psychotic state.

I know there are same treatment methods for "Spiceophrenia" and Schizophrenia, because symptoms are almoust identically same. But the antipsychotics won't work as good as in Schizophrenia. If someone know anything about succesful treatment methods for "Spiceophrenia", please share them. What should I consider to do next?

Regards,
Dante91

[glok]

Welcome to the Community, Dante91. Does your treatment team know about what you are experiencing? The treatment does not seem to be working.

I wish you well.

[Sometimes psychotic]

That is an incredibly low dose of risperidone.....while it might work for you and they start slow, the standard AP dose for psychosis is 4mg...they are probably hoping you'll just snap out of it but yes you are right the treatment is the same although possibly not as long term if you are lucky.

[Loial]

Drug-Induced Psychosis & Schizophrenia are indistinguishable apart from the fact one is permanent & the other isn't in theory.

The treatment methods are the same & are just as effective. As the others said you need to talk to your treatment team & let them know your meds aren't working.

I only take 1mg of risperdal a day too. But I'm bipolar and PTSD. I did go into a very terrifying psychosis though. But it wasn't drug induced. But I struggle with paranoia ten times worse than before the psychosis and sometimes I think irrationally about things.

I think u can get better. Give it some time. Hope u keep posting here.

[newtus]

i would think drug induced psychosis is slightly distinguishable from schizophrenia. especially in the behavior

[junkDNA]

i dont think it is distinguishable . i smoked Spice and became acutely psychotic. i had psychotic symptoms prior to smoking it, but it really amped it up and brought it all back. meds helped me. ive seen people on meth who are psychotic and it looks like regular psychosis.

[newtus]

i wonder what spice would do to me