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Yeah, a lot of people try to ascribe a causal link from drugs to mental illness when it’s probably the other way around. People undiagnosed but suffering from early stage mental illness often self-medicate, combined with the fact that there’s a lot of overlap in the ages where people experiment with drugs and when mental illness typically presents itself enough to lead to a diagnosis.



The thing is… all of these happen because excessive drug use can cause mental illness.

The problem is people assume drug use is always the cause. This isn’t helped by many people treating mental illness as a character flaw.




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