Well could be he use to buy it off a friend but as soon as they opened those pot stores up I think it had a stronger effect. But he quit smoking about 6 months ago , so if it is phycosis from weed wouldn’t it clear up by not smoking. He states he has no friends and they are all back standers . Idk none of this makes sense he was a guy everyone loved and looked up to now he a bitter person big changes in his personality now all I hear is woe is me . And he loses everything and blames it on people messing with him.
The personality changes could very well be from drug withdraw. Not just physical withdraw but psychological withdraw too. When drug addicts, alcoholics, and even smokers get off the drugs, booze, and cigarettes they often have serious mood and personality changes that last a long time and are sometimes permanent. Don't let anyone tell you that pot is nothing and it's not addictive. Yes, it is and when a person like your husband who got high his entire life gets clean, they're going to have a hard time. Now factor in the Lyme disease and there's going to be mental changes.
Does your husband have any history of untreated mental illness? People who don't seek out real clinical treatment for mental illness medicate themselves. They always start with pot or alcohol or both.
Get your husband to his doctor and tell him what going on. Then get him into a 12-step program like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Narcotics Anonymous (NA) would probably be a good place for him. There are meetings in every city and town because there are alcoholics and drug addicts in every city and town. Then get yourself into a Nar-anon meeting group. This is Al-Anon for people who have drug addicts in their lives. If there's no groups in your area they have online meetings.
Good luck to you both and I hope th two of you find recovery.
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm all for marijuana for medical use with a prescription. If a person has cancer or some other horrific condition and pot can benefit them, then I say let them have it. It is asinine what has happened with it though.
In my state they've lowered the legal limit on alcohol. So now if you had a thimble of beer with your dinner and left the restaurant two hours later, you get a DUI. It's because there are so many devastating auto accidents and deaths in my state. Alcohol isn't the cause. You can't drive on a street in a Connecticut city night or day, that isn't reeking of pot. You can't drive on a Connecticut highway that isn't either. That's where all the accidents and fatalities are coming from. People getring high while driving is the cause. The police do nothing because they're allowed to.
He sounds more in need of detox and counseling first before taking the Lyme disease route.
Are your husbands doctors aware of the latter, and if not why not? They will need all the pieces of the puzzle to be able to put this puzzle together.
Please continue on the Lyme path along with the long effects of pot smoking and I'm guessing you will find the answers you need to put this puzzle together.
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To answer your question, no -- the long-term damage from smoking a lot of weed is cumulative.
But, you stated he had been treated for Lyme's and I still think this is the angle that you need to help him pursue first -- mainly because his paranoia began seemingly so suddenly. It makes the most logical sense to start with this.