Well I did some reading I was genuinely fascinated.
It appears that in most users, it's cyclical. It is a diagnosis based primarily on SYMPTOMS no one is 100% sure how it works. It is not typically fatal, and from what I read, only became a diagnosis in 2004.
I read a really long and complicated paper on NCBI and well, they don't really know how it works either but they had some pretty graphs and stuff to look at.
Prevalence appears quite low but of COURSE it is "Under diagnosed."
IDK if I smoked cannabis and every time I started puking my guts out I would probably stop smoking it, not think "cannabis is not POSSIBLY the cause, even slightly" and just keep SMOKING it, at least not without doing some research on my SYMPTOMS and the disease was NOT hard to find at ALL.
So look, here's a kid smoking illegal MJ and it's all cool with his mom because he is part of some "weed" club so he's just left like getting high with his buds (in both senses) and mommy has no idea where the weed is coming from or anything or much knowledge of MJ at ALL NOR apparently ANY thought that "Oh gosh maybe I should google my son's symptoms you know, properly to see if this has EVER HAPPENED BEFORE."
Hmm. Like I said, I love kids. I love them dearly, and whether it was THAT which killed him off or something else, I have to say.
IF SOMETHING APPEARS TO BE KILLING YOU STOP DOING IT.
That's what I had to do with cigarettes. It wasn't FUN. Neither is an oxygen tank. THANK GOD for
vaping.
But, Darwin wins again. Another kid, that in my opinion did not MORALLY deserve to die but as an autodidact, perhaps I judge these things HARSHLY, etc, but you know.... You GOT SOMETHING GOING ON LOOK IT UP it WILL HELP YOU FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO.
So, yeah, another kid who "deserved" to die. Not because he was a BAD KID necessarily maybe he was Just Lovely but MOM, I'm sorry it's YOUR job to safeguard your kid's well being. I'm sorry you didn't want to tell the kid to knock off the illegal drug use, but hey, you know he would have been MAD at you. That's... Uncomfortable but it won't actually KILL you like it did him. Would it.
I also love how the magical diagnosis was discovered AFTER his death. If his docs were so on top of crap they would have figured it out BEFORE.
They have no way of proving what killed that kid besides "I am a stupid teenager and my mom wants me to have friends, even if I do illegal things with them and I am showing signs of SEVERE illness." It could have been.... ANYTHING.
Jesus. Parents today. You know what? The first time my two year old told me he hated me I was SUPER thrilled. I told him he could not do something, and then he wandered past and said "I HATE YOU MOM!"
LOL I told him I was proud he could express his emotions (in 2 year old talk) and that he had EVERY right in the world to hate me for as LONG as he needed to but he wasn't getting his way.
I was thrilled. He was developing as an individual with the ability to hate me, and I actually felt GREAT. I was like, I AM PARENTING.
IF your kid doesn't hate you SOME of the time, and make you miserable, you are DOING it wrong. Instead of being SO SCARED your kid won't love you, embrace the hate. YOU are supposed to PARENT and your KID is ALLOWED to hate you and you should celebrate it.
Anna