I defintetly think drugs cause my SP, because i was an outgoing kid all the way until my senior year in highschool. That's when i had a couple bad experiences with LSD. I totally stopped taking drugs for about a year and got on paxil. I seemed to be getting better, but thats when i seem to get into trouble, because when i start feeling better i start going back to the drugs because i would always want to continue with my old life style. After i got better the first time i wouldn't take lsd, just did alot of drinking and occasionally smoked weed. But then my ex-girlfriend turned me on to ecstacy, big mistake, because i started eating it everyday and i would eat like 10 pills a night because it would make me feel like i thought i was supposed to feel. Well that lasted for about a year and i got all depressed again and had to go back on medicine, but as soon as i started feeling better again, i forgot all about how shitty i felt, and i started taking the drugs again, only this time i was taking a shitload of psychedelic drugs. I was eating like a quarter ounce of mushrooms a day for like 4 months straight, not to mention all LSD i was eating. While i was doing that i felt like i would never get sick again. I was eating a ton of xanax too. and drinking very heavily. I would eat my whole prescription of xanax in about 2 or 3 days. That's 120 pills. I'm surprised i'm not dead. Well then i got sick again and i tried to get back on paxil, but it didn't work that time, so i tried all the same drugs and i just kept getting worse. So then i started smoking crack, i was trying anything to make myself feel better. Well that had the exact opposite effect. I became addicted immediately and i hated every second of it but i couldn't stop. It made my SP a million times worse but i found that i was stealing to get it. Crack is the devil. Well i finally beat the crack about 4 and half months ago, and thats how long i've been sober, but i just started taking effexor xr about 3 weeks ago and i'm hoping to god it starts working because i'm in hell right now. I know i wrote too much but i had to get that out. Best of luck to ya