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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 22yo had a psychotic break 18 months ago and it's been incredibly hard to pull him out of the psychosis.  Currently on his third hospitalization/psych hold.  We wish SO SO much we'd been a lot stricter in high school about him smoking pot.  I think that was the gateway to everything that came afterward and it has such strong ties to psychosis.  It seemed like this came out of the blue, but in hindsight there were signs of what was coming.  However, we didn't know what to look for, or that we should be looking.  We have no family history of anything like this.  It's a living nightmare and something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

The only piece of advice I have is to try to get your child to sign a release enabling you to speak with their medical care team once they are 18.  We didn't have this in place and it made things so much harder.  We couldn't get him to update it and have just been told it expired. [/quote]

I have a friend going through the exact same thing with her son. They too blame it on him smoking too much pot. Hugs to you, it sounds so hard and so scary.[/quote]

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