Does anyone have drug induced paranoia and schizophrenia? if so I would love to hear your experience with it. My son who is 21 has just been diagnosed after experimenting with drugs for a few months at the start of this year. He was completely normal before taking these drugs and now he’s a different person. The weird thing is the paranoia and schizophrenia developed gradually over 9 months of being clean. At first I just thought he had depression as he wouldn’t leave the house or socialise or talk much but within the last month he started talking to himself, became delusional blaming people of poking him or spitting at him when they weren’t and he had a couple of violent outbursts and broke up the house.
He’s now on monthly medication by injection.
I would love any advice if anyone is familiar with this. I have developed anxiety from worry.
I don’t have personal experience, but my mom developed psychosis after taking a sleeping medication (Zolpidem) for a few months. She’s living in her car and refuses to stay in an apartment, but I know that she gets comfort from seeing and being around me. Truly, the best we can do is be there for them and be ready whenever they’re ready for additional support and help
One of my best friends had a grandson who became schizophrenic after taking spice. The psychosis never went away, although eventually he was involuntarily hospitalized and medicated and is now less psychotic. He is in a state run home.
I hope that you see results on the monthly injection your son is on. In my own case, only a monthly injection brought my daughter slowly out of the psychosis she was in for 3 years. Now having been on the Haldol Dec Shot for years, she is as close to hallucination free and delusion free as she will probably ever be. She says her voices are “in a little box in her head now” and she can keep them there, although she still hears them sometimes.
My husband of 2 years was diagnosed with SAD in 2018. After 7 years of constant adderall and other drugs abuse that started in college. The abuse plus the circumstances of his life (basically bad decisions, trusting wrong people, fake friends) this all led to him getting a mental disorder. His siblings and parents tell me how he was a normal person before he did any drugs. And I see it now. I am trying desperately to get him off prescription drugs. He only takes one prescription drug (this drug suppresses sleep and appetite, which worsens his symptoms) but he refuses to let it go. Having a real hard time.
In the end, with my husband, I believe the real change won’t happen unless he realizes that he will get messed up for life if he doesn’t stop. I have a one year old and I am just dreading every day. He is a completely normal/chilled person with some delusions but his mood is happy when he is completely SOBER. Otherwise, it’s just a mess.
I hope all your problems go away and you find a peaceful solution to this issue. I hope the same for myself.
I thought the drugs my son did, induced his schizophrenic episodes, but I’m wondering now. He told me he had always had problems with voices. Looking back, maybe that harmless imaginary friend when he was a child was the beginning. He’s always been very smart, but couldn’t focus in school, and would ditch homework at a nearby vacant house. The school wouldnt test him, i thought ADD (a Dr diagnosed him with ADD when he hit 30). I really have to wonder if his hearts of doing drugs and drinking weren’t self medicating. 
He’s getting ready to move back with me and knows he has to stay on his meds and not drink (he becomes violent on alcohol). Think I may need meds by the time I’m done…i told him he’ll have to get a trailer or shed to house, as being in the same tiny home for long won’t go well with me.
Hopefully if he stays on his meds he’ll be his normal self again and you will be able to live peaceably with him. That’s what happened with my son. The meds stopped the psychotic episodes and he’s working on improving himself.