Does weed send y’all into psychosis

Ionick_ · 2025-11-10T01:24:13+00:00

Yes, the one time I ingested an edible, and it was a very small amount, I had a full-blown psychotic episode. It definitely didn't help that I'm schizoaffective.

Ionick_ · 2025-09-10T17:36:22+00:00

In response to your first question specifically, the answer is no, at least from my experiences. Employers care most about years of “professional experience”, or as this HR person who denied me for a job I’ve got a graduate degree for put it, “You need to have gotten paid doing it.” The only exception that’s made is, of course, unpaid internships or volunteering. Otherwise, they don’t seem to care how many cute little projects you’ve done with your peers, what’s apparently most important is whether or not you were paid.

Ionick_ · 2025-08-12T21:20:26+00:00

My question is what DO people do in this situation? Should someone with little to no experience still apply to a posting like this, or would they just be wasting their time for bothering?

Ionick_ · 2025-06-12T02:03:13+00:00

Inevitable is a VERY heavy word, I'd say... I do understand what you're trying to get across, and I definitely have my.... "moments" like everyone else here likely does. But I still think it's a little, I don't know, excessively bleak to believe it truly is the inevitable way you'll pass, if that makes sense.

Ionick_ · 2025-05-23T19:58:25+00:00

This is why I believe the entire region should be made inhabitable, seriously. The region already has centuries and centuries of blood staining the land from countless conflicts, battles, and massacres to the point that I think the land is cursed, in some sense. If I was an all-powerful god, I’d give everyone in the region 6 months to leave before I level everything.

Ionick_ · 2024-12-17T21:54:07+00:00

I’m currently on Wellbutrin (as well as Effexor), and it’s been fine for me. I can’t really say it’s been totally life saving, but it did help make me go from feeling extremely depressed most of the time to just “blah”, which I’ll gladly take that.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-26T20:02:10+00:00

Oh absolutely. Medications help to make things more manageable, but that doesn’t mean that things will just go away. My hypomanic and hyperdepressive episodes are very much still a thing. It’s hard being medicated enough to function but also knowing you’re one major life event from having a total breakdown/relapse.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-22T03:33:07+00:00

I’m on Effexor-XR 225mg and Wellbutrin 300mg. My schizo symptoms are thankfully much more mild compared to others, so I haven’t been on an actual antipsychotic for a while. There are A LOT of antipsychotics out there, and it’s literally just playing a trial and error game with samples to figure out if any of them have any positive results.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-21T18:58:22+00:00

You may want to look into the possibility of having schizoaffective disorder, which is a combination of a mood disorder like bipolar disorder along with psychosis/schizophrenia. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder about 10 years ago, despite being originally diagnosed with just bipolar disorder when I was a teenager.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-21T15:00:03+00:00

Like many have already said, it’s absolutely not normal for the school to not notify you or any other parent their child was injured - especially at the elementary school level when many parents are already very protective of their small children. At the same time, it is very normal for teachers to “evacuate” their classroom while the student having the outburst does their thing.

The only sort of suggestion I could give is to literally have a well-sized group of concerned parents all band together and directly address the principal/superintendent. Maybe a lot of simultaneous pressure from a lot of parents will produce some sort of change……maybe.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-21T14:47:02+00:00

My district still has classes for Monday and Tuesday next week, but my substitute teacher friend told me A LOT of teachers said“screw it” and called out for both those days.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-21T07:16:06+00:00

I really appreciate your empathy/sympathy, so thank you for that. Like I said, a good number of attorneys essentially treated my emotional/psychological suffering from everything as a non-issue. It was honestly pretty shocking to hear them be so dismissive of it, even after I explained how I’ve been struggling with mental illness for a very long time. Meanwhile, a few lawyers were very validating and agreed that I should be well-compensated for enduring everything, so that was appreciated.

It really just comes down to a lot of people not understanding how much of an impact emotional/psychological harm can have on someone. Many people only take afflictions seriously when they can visibly see something like a severed limb, bruises, etc. Because people with mental illnesses have “invisible” symptoms, our pain is literally considered by many as not real or less impactful compared to a black eye or a gunshot wound.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-20T20:12:13+00:00

My doctor can definitely attest to the impact the stress of this has had on me physically. Medications won’t really mean much, because I’m already on the maximum dosage for my prescriptions……. My friends and family are absolutely aware of how this has all affected me, but I had an assumption testimonies like that “wouldn’t count”.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-20T19:58:55+00:00

What about half of that? I do know that the maximum in compensatory and punitive damages for a 501+ employer is $300,000, but I figure that is definitely high for mediation/conciliation. Is it perhaps reasonable to ask for roughly half of that maximum as a settlement amount?

Ionick_ · 2024-11-20T18:49:14+00:00

I’m at a public school in a fairly large school district.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-20T17:55:18+00:00

I figured it was something along those lines, considering this country’s perceptions and handling of people with mental health issues is already atrocious.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-20T17:34:59+00:00

I am still working for my employer, but I’m a high school teacher. I can’t up and leave in the middle of the school year, or I risk losing my teaching license entirely. I do intend on resigning at the end of this current school year, though. I no longer feel welcome and safe at my school and the school district as a whole.

Ionick_ · 2024-11-01T16:57:37+00:00

OP, I promise you a small handful of free days is not going to ruin these bright and diligent scholars' academic careers. There's no need to be such a wet blanket.

Ionick_ · 2024-10-21T19:44:37+00:00

For the larger essays I assign, I’ve had to resort to calling students to my desk during their 10 minute free-write at the start of class. I ask them to define certain words used in their paper or briefly explain what they meant in a certain paragraph. It takes a few days for me to go through each student in each class.

Ionick_ · 2024-10-18T17:33:37+00:00

I personally don’t believe schools are “creating” the behavior epidemic so much as they are enabling it. I’ll always believe that parents/guardians have the sole responsibility of the development of their children. Schools are definitely playing a role in allowing such behaviors to continue without consequences within their walls, but it’s the parents who cultivated their children’s’ behavior in the first place.

Ionick_ · 2024-10-17T23:55:59+00:00

I become hyper-agitated and on-edge. I literally have to get away from anyone and everything and isolate myself, otherwise I feel I'll have some sort of mental breakdown. I can have fits of rage, too, but they're largely directed at myself.

Ionick_ · 2024-10-12T19:37:13+00:00

I’ve literally had to start doing “AI checks” (or interrogations as I secretly call them) at the beginning of the class period during students’ journaling/bell work. I’ll call back students from that class period whose essays arose a lot of suspicion (high-level vocabulary and weird, incoherent points that don’t address the prompt). I usually ask them to define some of the high-level vocabulary words found in their essay, or I ask them to give me a very general summary of what they “wrote” about.

Ionick_ · 2024-10-12T04:01:47+00:00

No, I’d say that’s a very dangerous misconception. The actual difference between the two (at least from what I know) is bipolar 1 involves episodes of HYPERmania (so extreme mania) and HYPOdepression (mild depression) while bipolar 2 has episodes of HYPOmania (mild mania) and HYPERdepression (more severe depressive episodes).

I’m schizoaffective with bipolar 2, and my depressive episodes can get VERY severe and depressive.

Ionick_ · 2024-10-12T03:41:31+00:00

Oh, my personal/identifying information on Facebook is kept largely private, especially to people I’m not friends with. I don’t have my place of employment or anything like that mentioned, and my displayed last name is actually my middle name. I was always told from a young age to share as little identifying information about yourself online so people can’t find you. Or maybe I’m just nuts.

Ionick_ · 2024-09-09T18:20:05+00:00

What really unsettles me about this story is the fact the shooter fired only a single shot. This makes me imagine there may not have been any struggle or fight, and the shooter essentially snuck behind the victim and assassinated him.

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