Thanks for sharing that @OzSaintDave.
Wow, a powerful story - with what sounds like a relatively happy ending. You’re in good company here as many of us have confessed our own mental health challenges.
I grew up in Gosport and had my first exposure to drugs at 14. I have known lads that, well, just aren’t alive any more because for them cannabis was a gateway - ultimately to heroin. Four lads I went to school with died within about 3 months of each other. Ugly. I have mates that still smoke daily but are now incredibly paranoid and anxious. I also have mates (and I fit into this category myself) that can take or leave it and just dabble every now and then.
I guess my question to you is, were you unlucky? Was there something about your wiring that made you likely to have such a reaction?