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Stop todayHow drugs affect your mental healthMental health means different things to different people. You may think of control, happiness, contentment, order – but good mental health is usually a sign of a positive way of life. Mental ill health is the opposite of this – it causes problems and creates barriers to being happy. Your frame of mind may vary between the two as mental health can change. It can be affected by external influences, and one of these is drugs.Drugs that are psychoactive, such as cannabis, alcohol, ecstasy and heroin, have the ability to affect your mood. They can arouse certain emotions or dampen down others. This may be why you use them. The changes in your mood or behaviour caused by drugs are the result of changes to your brain. This is also the part of youthat controls your mental health.Drugs interfere with the chemicals in your brain. This affects the messages those chemicals are trying to send. You need to weigh up both the short-term and long-term effects that drugs can have on your mental health.The short-term effects may well be something you enjoy – but probably only if they happen like you expect them to. You may also have unwantedshort-term drug-induced side effects, such as acting or feeling strange. These are short-term because they pass as the drug leaves your system.Drugs can have a longer-lasting impact on your mental health too, and you need to think seriouslyabout your own strengths and vulnerabilities. Consider whether you use drugs to make bad feelings go away and whether you are in control of your use. Even if you start using drugs with a clear mind they may still affect your mental health. Drugs can simply expose bad feelings younever knew you had.Unwanted effects may stay with you because youhave a pre-existing mental health condition you were not aware of. Or you may get the dose very wrong and permanently disrupt a chemical balance in your brain.Short-term effects of drugs on mental healthAll psychoactive drugs may cause mental health problems while you are taking them and as you clear the drug from your body. These can include anxiety, mood swings, depression, sleep problems and psychosis (see below...
2-Drug-induced anxiety disorder-You may have panic attacks – periods of very severe anxiety when your heart rate increases, with trembling, sweats, shortness of breath, and afear of losing control. You may also feel like your surroundings are strange and unreal, or that you are losing your personal identity and sense of reality....
3-Drug-induced psychosisPsychoactive drugs can cause delusions – you believe things that aren’t true, or hallucinations – you see or hear things that are not there.....
4-Ecstasy and depressionEcstasyis an amphetamine that causes hallucinations. It works by making serotonin more available and gives you a sense of euphoriawhen you take it. Serotonin is a chemical naturally found in your brain which regulates yourmood. It is sometimes called the ‘happy hormone’. Ecstasy causes your brain to release a much higher amount of serotonin than usual. Over time your natural stores of serotonin may drop so much that you may never have the same levels as you had before you started using drugs. If lots of serotonin means euphoria than lack of serotonin means depression. You may experience short-term depression in the days after you use ecstasy but we need more research about the long term effects......
5-Cannabis and schizophreniaSchizophrenia is a severe mental illness which may cause you to hear voices in your head and believe that other people are trying to control or harm you. Research shows a link betweencannabisand people with schizophrenia. It is possible that if you have a pre-existing risk which you may not be aware of, there is a higher chancethat using cannabis will trigger an episode of schizophrenia. These risks are also greater in younger people who use cannabis and those tha