Thank you to these strong parents for sharing this painful story. Your son is so lucky to have such support from you both! Please let us know how he progreses🙏
I am so sorry for everything this family is going through. I’m sending this mom and dad a virtual hug. I truly hope that a recovery trajectory has been triggered with the hospitalization and impending treatment. I feel their exhaustion! Our son has cannabis induced psychosis and we went through a year and a half of hell before were were able to get him into long term residential treatment (he’s turning 24 in a couple months). Mom is right- act now while you have the power as his parents! Long term residential is the way to go.
Beth, thank you for your encouraging words. Would you consider sharing your testimony with us? If so please fill out this form. everybrainmatters.org/testimony-form/
I've never seen any long term residential treatment. Where or how did you find that? So sorry for what you're going through. I know your pain and heartache.
This shit happened to me last year and it ruined my life! All caused by some very powerful weed ingested in Colorado last January. It led to me cashing out all of my savings and spending on ridiculous stuff and now I'm broke and in trouble with the law because of Marijuana psychosis. I also thought there was significance in numbers, spirituality, and technology. Basically just my brain losing control because of THC.
I am so sorry and can relate! My son started drinking and vaping at 14yr and is now 17yrs. It’s clear the vaping of pot is effecting their mood. My son would become extremely anger where he would want to hit me. This was a complete personality change. He has stopped now because he wanted his license. We drug test him and we now have him back! It’s will help once he matures more along with his brain! The pre-frontal cortex is immature and once it develops they get better! You son will be ok!! Hugs🥰🥰
I am so sorry and unfortunately my husband and I can totally relate. My son Kobe and I did a video with Aubree. My husband and I watched this together and it was almost identical to what we went through with Kobe. Kobe had 3 episodes of psychosis in less than 2 weeks. We all got help as a family and held the accountability line. It takes time, but he can get through this and recover Relapses can happen. They call them managed relapses if your quick to get on it. Prayers and love out to you both. Please reach out if there is anything I can do to help.
Sending this family so much love! There are some similar things in your story that happened to our son 3 weeks ago. He has special needs, does not drive a car and has struggled with fitting in. When he was around 22 he started smoking marijuana bud. We noticed that he started becoming more withdrawn and isolated. I could tell he was smoking too much and asked him to stop because I felt like it was having a bad effect on him. He was still working his jobs and being fairly productive though. He is now 23 and three weeks ago he completely cracked. He got home from work in the late afternoon after working in very hot weather and probably not drinking enough fluids and started becoming completely delusional and was hearing voices in his head he thought there was a war being fought right beside him. He kept saying that his grandpa who he is very close with and lives on the property next to is dead and that we need to go check on him. He thought he had other peoples souls and that he had killed them. He thought that the police were after him and that he had done something horrible. I suspected right away that it was the THC but wasn't for sure. We did our best to keep him calm not arguing and kept a very close eye on him. He did not sleep that night and would wander the house with my husband or I needing to be with him at all times. We took away his bong and got rid of any weed we could find. Next day he was a little better but making no sense and very delusional. Still claiming to hear voices. We stayed with him constantly. The next night he slept all night. He sat and just stared most of the next day. Did not respond much when we spoke to him and did not want to take a shower, or eat. That third night was the worst, he was up the whole night and he wanted to sit out on the porch with only a t-shirt on. He would just stare off into space. By morning he started pacing a lot and then he came and told us he needed marijuana and started to act more aggressive. We had removed all the knives that we could possibly find, but he had a hunting knife stashed is his closet that we missed and he disappeared to his room for 5 min. and my husband found him with a small stab wound to the stomach. We called the police and he spent 2 nights in the ER 3 nights in the hospital until a bed opened at the behavioral health Center locally. For the first 3 days he really wasn't speaking and would just stare at us when we would talk to him. On the fourth day he started acknowledging us and talking to us. Long story short, he was released after 13 days in the mental health center and is now home recovering. He is speaking again and pretty much back to his normal self and admits the weed was causing him to hear voices and that had been happening for the past year when he smoked. We are an average hardworking middle-class farming family that live on acreage in the country with our six kids. We consider ourselves to be a strong balanced family with a lot of love. Ryan is our oldest and never thought something like this was possible. Aubree, I am so grateful for you and this channel!! I found it within a day of being in the hospital with him and listening to all the stories here and finding your website was confirmation that indeed he had cannabis induced psychosis and the doctors agreed. The THC levels in his urine were off the charts. We are just at the very beginning of our recovery and we are all committed to helping him and ourselves through this awful experience. We are going to get involved in the Mar- anon meetings next week and already have some local stuff mapped out. Again thank you for the bottom of our hearts for what you're doing and our hearts go out all other families who are dealing with a similar situation. It is truly heartbreaking and probably one of the hardest things we will ever go through as a family. 🙏💖🙏💖
Such a tragic story. As a Christian (and recovering addict) I am critical of your pastor claiming that the problem is physiological rather than spiritiual because the devil is clearly at work in this realm. Apart from earnest prayer (my own first and foremost), I would recommend the many talks by Dr Gabor Maté on overcoming addiction. God bless this young man and may the Lord reach out and stand him upon his two feet, likewise strengthening the whole family in your travail. Blessings and comfort.
Pls tell us how your son is doing and any facilities you recommend because most are horrible and we don’t have much time or it may be to late pls respond to me.
Here is a list of all of our family recovery resources. You will find a list of treatment resources there. everybrainmatters.org/cannabis-harms-support-recovery-families/
@@EveryBrainMatters I was there waiting to see a psychiatrist in 10 days my life is a living hell now I was in such a good position only a few smokes and it happened to me
@@Slidehhy we’re sorry you’re suffering. We know it’s scary but get some professional help so you can start recovering. It’s ok to call the police and ask for help.
Today is 8/8/23 one week ago my 31yr old daughter committed suicide due to pot vaping she had psychosis for 2yrs couldn’t get medical help she needed seems like they don’t care about mental health I reached out to doctors even our state senator Chris Murphy which I received a quick response but you get PA to help not doctors me and my wife are destroyed not sure how to move on we need to ban this drug god bless any family going through this 🙏
I'm sorry your son is going threw a tough time. THC absolutely is not good for someone who is psychotic. It makes me mad when hospitals don't admit people when they have these symptoms. You have to want the help to get it. That being said I don't agree that THC is the single cause of schizophrenia and that is coming from someone who has had 'cannabis use disorder' lives with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a complex illness and to point the finger at one thing is not helping anyone get to a point where we want to be with this illness. Millions of people consume THC products and they live normal lives. I was lucky enough to be honest with doctors and got help threw mental health. I really do think that one day there will be a treatment that works for everyone.
Thank you to these strong parents for sharing this painful story. Your son is so lucky to have such support from you both!
Please let us know how he progreses🙏
It's a Trojan horse we allow in the gates
This has happened to my son too.
✝️EAM JESUS 🙏🏾, thank you all
I am so sorry for everything this family is going through. I’m sending this mom and dad a virtual hug. I truly hope that a recovery trajectory has been triggered with the hospitalization and impending treatment. I feel their exhaustion! Our son has cannabis induced psychosis and we went through a year and a half of hell before were were able to get him into long term residential treatment (he’s turning 24 in a couple months). Mom is right- act now while you have the power as his parents! Long term residential is the way to go.
Beth, thank you for your encouraging words. Would you consider sharing your testimony with us? If so please fill out this form. everybrainmatters.org/testimony-form/
I've never seen any long term residential treatment. Where or how did you find that? So sorry for what you're going through. I know your pain and heartache.
This shit happened to me last year and it ruined my life! All caused by some very powerful weed ingested in Colorado last January. It led to me cashing out all of my savings and spending on ridiculous stuff and now I'm broke and in trouble with the law because of Marijuana psychosis. I also thought there was significance in numbers, spirituality, and technology. Basically just my brain losing control because of THC.
I am so sorry and can relate! My son started drinking and vaping at 14yr and is now 17yrs. It’s clear the vaping of pot is effecting their mood. My son would become extremely anger where he would want to hit me. This was a complete personality change. He has stopped now because he wanted his license. We drug test him and we now have him back! It’s will help once he matures more along with his brain! The pre-frontal cortex is immature and once it develops they get better! You son will be ok!! Hugs🥰🥰
I am so sorry and unfortunately my husband and I can totally relate. My son Kobe and I did a video with Aubree. My husband and I watched this together and it was almost identical to what we went through with Kobe. Kobe had 3 episodes of psychosis in less than 2 weeks. We all got help as a family and held the accountability line. It takes time, but he can get through this and recover Relapses can happen. They call them managed relapses if your quick to get on it. Prayers and love out to you both. Please reach out if there is anything I can do to help.
Pretty sure it's the drinking that caused his brain damage but blame the cannabis...real smart.
Sending this family so much love! There are some similar things in your story that happened to our son 3 weeks ago.
He has special needs, does not drive a car and has struggled with fitting in. When he was around 22 he started smoking marijuana bud. We noticed that he started becoming more withdrawn and isolated. I could tell he was smoking too much and asked him to stop because I felt like it was having a bad effect on him. He was still working his jobs and being fairly productive though. He is now 23 and three weeks ago he completely cracked. He got home from work in the late afternoon after working in very hot weather and probably not drinking enough fluids and started becoming completely delusional and was hearing voices in his head he thought there was a war being fought right beside him. He kept saying that his grandpa who he is very close with and lives on the property next to is dead and that we need to go check on him. He thought he had other peoples souls and that he had killed them. He thought that the police were after him and that he had done something horrible. I suspected right away that it was the THC but wasn't for sure. We did our best to keep him calm not arguing and kept a very close eye on him. He did not sleep that night and would wander the house with my husband or I needing to be with him at all times. We took away his bong and got rid of any weed we could find. Next day he was a little better but making no sense and very delusional. Still claiming to hear voices. We stayed with him constantly. The next night he slept all night. He sat and just stared most of the next day. Did not respond much when we spoke to him and did not want to take a shower, or eat. That third night was the worst, he was up the whole night and he wanted to sit out on the porch with only a t-shirt on. He would just stare off into space. By morning he started pacing a lot and then he came and told us he needed marijuana and started to act more aggressive. We had removed all the knives that we could possibly find, but he had a hunting knife stashed is his closet that we missed and he disappeared to his room for 5 min. and my husband found him with a small stab wound to the stomach. We called the police and he spent 2 nights in the ER 3 nights in the hospital until a bed opened at the behavioral health Center locally. For the first 3 days he really wasn't speaking and would just stare at us when we would talk to him. On the fourth day he started acknowledging us and talking to us. Long story short, he was released after 13 days in the mental health center and is now home recovering. He is speaking again and pretty much back to his normal self and admits the weed was causing him to hear voices and that had been happening for the past year when he smoked. We are an average hardworking middle-class farming family that live on acreage in the country with our six kids. We consider ourselves to be a strong balanced family with a lot of love. Ryan is our oldest and never thought something like this was possible. Aubree, I am so grateful for you and this channel!! I found it within a day of being in the hospital with him and listening to all the stories here and finding your website was confirmation that indeed he had cannabis induced psychosis and the doctors agreed. The THC levels in his urine were off the charts.
We are just at the very beginning of our recovery and we are all committed to helping him and ourselves through this awful experience. We are going to get involved in the Mar- anon meetings next week and already have some local stuff mapped out.
Again thank you for the bottom of our hearts for what you're doing and our hearts go out all other families who are dealing with a similar situation. It is truly heartbreaking and probably one of the hardest things we will ever go through as a family. 🙏💖🙏💖
Such a tragic story. As a Christian (and recovering addict) I am critical of your pastor claiming that the problem is physiological rather than spiritiual because the devil is clearly at work in this realm. Apart from earnest prayer (my own first and foremost), I would recommend the many talks by Dr Gabor Maté on overcoming addiction. God bless this young man and may the Lord reach out and stand him upon his two feet, likewise strengthening the whole family in your travail. Blessings and comfort.
Its a billion dollar industry. I know someone who literally bought an island with their profits
“” brain on fire “”” - there’s a true story movie named that - it was excellent
So uninformed
Pls tell us how your son is doing and any facilities you recommend because most are horrible and we don’t have much time or it may be to late pls respond to me.
Here is a list of all of our family recovery resources. You will find a list of treatment resources there. everybrainmatters.org/cannabis-harms-support-recovery-families/
Marijunna messed my mind up I'm now schizophrenic is there anyway I can get my old brain back
There is always hope for more healing. Do you have a team of professional helping you?
@@EveryBrainMatters i don't think so im 22 and messed up everything I'm not sure what to do and I feel insane
@@Slidehhy go to the hospital or call the police and ask for help. You need professional help and support. We’re praying for you.
@@EveryBrainMatters I was there waiting to see a psychiatrist in 10 days my life is a living hell now I was in such a good position only a few smokes and it happened to me
@@Slidehhy we’re sorry you’re suffering. We know it’s scary but get some professional help so you can start recovering. It’s ok to call the police and ask for help.
Today is 8/8/23 one week ago my 31yr old daughter committed suicide due to pot vaping she had psychosis for 2yrs couldn’t get medical help she needed seems like they don’t care about mental health I reached out to doctors even our state senator Chris Murphy which I received a quick response but you get PA to help not doctors me and my wife are destroyed not sure how to move on we need to ban this drug god bless any family going through this 🙏
I'm so sorry to hear that. May you be comforted in your pain. So many tragedies around us in the present time. A change must come.
I'm sorry your son is going threw a tough time. THC absolutely is not good for someone who is psychotic. It makes me mad when hospitals don't admit people when they have these symptoms. You have to want the help to get it. That being said I don't agree that THC is the single cause of schizophrenia and that is coming from someone who has had 'cannabis use disorder' lives with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a complex illness and to point the finger at one thing is not helping anyone get to a point where we want to be with this illness. Millions of people consume THC products and they live normal lives. I was lucky enough to be honest with doctors and got help threw mental health. I really do think that one day there will be a treatment that works for everyone.