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"I've heard psychotic drugs (LSD, shrooms, etc.) can trigger it to develop in people sooner in life, but if you are going to get schizophrenia, you are going to get it, even if you never did the drugs. Any chance if you know if this is true/false/just pure speculation?


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Environmental factors can definitely trigger the onset of schizophrenia. E.g., a period of high stress such as separation from family. I've never heard of illegal drugs such as these triggering the onset of schizophrenia but it certainly seems plausible that the drugs could have such an effect. For the most part Schizophrenia is something you will get or not get but timing can vary.

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I dont know if this was true or not but a friend of mine said his friend ate some shrooms, and went crazy. He said that the kid that ate the shrooms lost his mind and thought that he was a glass of orange juice, and now he spends the rest of his life in a home trying not to spill.