@randomname Hello there, I believe I had an experience similar to yours
Hallucinations, sleep issues, episodes lasting 20-30 minutes, destroyed mental clarity, lack of short term memory.
These weed strains can trigger a cascade of issues. Who knows what they are sprayed/ treated with.
It sounds like you are in an elevated stress state. If you are in a state of chronically elevated cortisol, you will become more sensitive to serotonin and also dopamine. When your neurons are in stress mode, they become reliant on glutamate for energy, an excitatory neurotransmitter, and without proper inhibition this will cause degeneration. It is the excitatory inhibitors, GABA, Orexin, that will oppose this over-excitatory response, but in a elevated stress state they will not be adequately expressed. Without the relevant action of these inhibitors, glutamate overload will result in excitotoxic cell death, excess serotonin and dopamine will be unopposed.
So it is my theory that when you have these constantly elevated levels of excitatory substances, dopamine, 5ht, glutamate, and you eventually run out of energy to oppose them, it causes these episodes where your brain becomes overloaded with serotonin and dopamine which causes the psychosis type symptoms. For me this went from 30 minutes episodes occasionally to extended periods daily. I would become non-functional, extremely confused, eventually started having hallucinations. As I put myself in a state of chronic stress from starvation.
What is important is to provide yourself with the necessary energy when you are in a sensitive state.
If you are running into problems during sleep, this would suggest to me you are likely running out of glucose during the night, which I'm guessing could be triggering these episodes you mention.
How much do you eat every day?
Do you experience issues after eating?
Blood sugar spikes/ crashes?
If you are hypothyroid, this will be exacerbating wasteful energy and lack of blood sugar regulation, again not providing brain needed energy. Intestinal inflammation will increase serotonin and histamine release.
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chronic stress leading to increased seretonin and dopamine in schizophrenicsschizo dopamine graph.webp
increased dopamine level in schizophrenia and psychosis
Hope this helps in some way.
