No, but any psychedelic can trigger symptoms of mental disorders someone may already have and not be aware of...
The development of symptoms of mental illness from use or over-use of lsd can sometimes be predicted by a person's behavior/mindset, but other times they can't.
define insane...lol. we are creaters of reality...reality is an opinion, and insanity is one mans opinion of another mans reality. lsd definatly has the power to transform thinking patterns in a profound way, but only if you choose to be changed
This is sort of true... but there is an actual objective reality.. sure we interpret it in a little bit different ways, but we don't create reality... I don't know who the fuck would do this to me...
I believe it can. I know for a fact it can bring on latent disorders that would probably never surface otherwise...my neighbor growing up went insane, and still is to this day due to tripping so much with this underlying tendency towards mental illness.
So he was already screwey to begin with? People who are already having some mental issues should stay away from drugs. They won't help.
No, he seemed normal up until he went to college and did tons of acid, at which point he started taking his clothes off in public constantly, shitting on the ground outside my friends apartment, stealing his girlfirends car repeatedly, and finally dissappearing for 4 months until he could finally remember his name...he lived in Ohio and was in jail in Atlanta most of the time...he then was sent back to his parents on an airplane and had to be restrained by 5 people because he was freaking out so much. This all happened around 1989-1990, he is still all fucked up, takes heavy medication that makes him sleep about 20 hours per day, and still lives with his parents at age 34 or 35 now. If he was already crazy, it never showed itself until he binged on acid for a while. Personally, I used to take acid all the time and ended up relatively sane
It could, but like has been stated, unless you have some sort of latent mental illness it won't be a problem. The biggest issue is obviously set and setting; make sure that you're with people you trust and that you won't be putting yourself in a situation where you'll have to confront authority figures or dramatic events...
Perhaps the notion of a "latent" mental illness being triggered and activated by acid is a politically correct way of blowing off some cases where acid is at fault. Let's face it, sanity is not so fixed where you can always say one person is sane while another is insane: perhaps we all have some degree of insanity. It's when certain people have difficulty functioning in society or can no longer function at all that we call them "insane." We might call some people with mild cases of insanity eccentrics. LSD is a very powerful hallucinogen and can bring about very intense emotional experiences. Perhaps we all have a threshold from which we are all susceptible to mental illness. LSD gave me an intense experience I will never forget, and I am sure for some it would have triggered a mental breakdown. LSD is a drug that is just not for everyone, and while it carries its benefits it carries its risks. Most people who do LSD, even repeatedly, will be just fine. I have tripped on numerous occasions and I am totally normal. Even when I try to find HPPD symptoms I can't get them. However, some people can get HPPD years after they used psychedelics. I am no expert, but I would say maybe 1-5% of users of psychedelics end up with some types of problems, so it's definitely risky. Some people, upon warning signs, should avoid psychedelics altogether.
Everyone has a few screws missing, it's just that the missing screws are in different places. Some people however are definately missing a few more screws than others, but i'd go out on a limb and say no one here can go inside of someone else's mind and feel their pain. It's easy to know what someone is doing; it's a little harder to know why they do it. Lots of things can lead to mental instability. Drugs are one of them. Keep that in mind. I use a lot of psychs; I've tripped hundreds of times... I'd say I am as normal as anybody else. On the other hand, I have met people in my life who exhibited slight paranoia, which later developed into full-blown schizophrenia from drug use. As said before though, I wouldn't say these people led anything close to a 'normal' life, so the "underlying mental problems" theory holds true in those cases. I've heard people be like "dude xxxxxx was a normal kid, it was the acid." But then you find out xxxxxx's parents were dope fiends who also smoked crack and lived in the projects. You find out xxxxxxx was eating half sheets at 13, shooting smack and smoking rock with bums in alleys before 20... So I really don't believe people when they blame it on the acid. That scenario has happened quite a few times to me. The fact is, as much as we know about the human mind, there is infinitely more to learn. Right now, NO ONE can really offer a definitive answer on the topic, just their opinion on the research they do.
personally, while not the norm, I do believe lsd could drive a person insane. I certainly had experiences where it took everything that I had to keep it together. But, like LSD seaker stated above, I believe its very rare. At the time I was finishing high school/early college, LSD was very common among younger people. Much more common than now from what I read on these boards.
Yea, it's not popular anymore, it's all about the e now... When I was a freshman in high school right before the millenium, it was EVERYWHERE. I mean, everybody I knew was eating the shit left and right, dosing out at school and shit except me lol... Now I eat it a hell of a lot more than anybody I know. To add, I think it's the human experience that will drive a person insane; you said you were kind of at a hectic point in life or something along those lines. LSD intensifies everything, so it just kind of gives insanity a helping hand (if you let it or your external environment REALLY shits on you).
I believe I've brought myself back from the brink of insanity,or at least schitzophrenia,I never really told anyone,as to not burden them with worries anyway,i had some sort of mind fuck on 4 hits of acid,i didnt see "scary stuff" or anything lame,it just felt like some serious emotional screwballing was going down,i wasnt even sure if it was acid,because i didnt get very intense visuals at all,just a very clean head trip,similar to the feeling of "2c-i" if anyone is familiar. The morning after was the most fearsome of my life,because I awoke to find the mental dementia I had experienced prior,during the trip,had not gone. I had a panic attack about 1 minute after waking in my safe warm room,with voices scrambling in my head,one just a mindless rationalizer..trying to judge and figure out what was going on,going deeper and deeper,analyzing and counter analyzing every single thought and word that appeared in my head...ticking away,very intense...and then after it was done,another "voice" would simply state,mockingly; Your crazy. and would send the rationalizing voice back into its panic mode,spiralling into defensive confusion. i was left in this silly loop for almost a month,and this was a constant thing,as I buttered my bread I would be drawing connections and metaphors between the subtle strokes of the knife to my sanity or infinity or whatever nutty mumbo jumbo,and the answer to my problem was quite simple,to just let go,let it be. in my state i knew this but just couldnt seem to facilitate such a thing,probabaly because i was trying to facilitate it. you dont have to try to relax,thats the whole point of relaxing,you just let go! during this month I smoked weed a first time,and went right back into a panic attack (weed knocks me on my ass) then I smoked a second time,confident in my theory that it isnt drugs that make one "insane",but thier mindset,this time I didnt not have any such panic attack. although the weed seemed to agitate the condition (increase the mental rush of thoughts,draw lots of false connections and strangeness) being able to stay calm while in a heightened state of psychosis is exactly what I needed,to realize that I didnt really care If i was nuts,just that I enjoyed myself,and could relax. I went on vacation from work to try and just relax after a month of the head trip,the week would prove very enlightening,I realized one of the main reasons my head trip was so strong,was that it was all I focused on,simply keeping myself busy,even if the mental debate was continuing during activities,I would slowly redirect my attention from this so called "crisis" that was blown out of proportion onto life. a few nights of doing what I used to do,meditating,going on walks,laying in the grass laughing...i pulled myself out of some dark hole,it was awesome hahaa,man thinking about it again makes me wanna leap with joy,and I will! I considered myself a very experienced tripper,I never even felt slight discomfort on trips before this one,I scoffed at fear,I could do anything while on high doses. I had no mental history at all,im a very mellow,peaceful level headed person. you can be caught off guard,and the mental state you call "you" can be altered,people with depression,"chemical imbalances" or psychotic conditions I dont believe are complete victims,I think that they can get better with the right idea
well it depends on the person. A 10 days interval use of lsd made me go into psychosis, and the professionals say I cant get psychotic withoud the use of drugs. I have had constant visual hallucinations for the last year and It changed completely the effects of any drug I now can take. the day after a big night of pot smoking, It feels like I have taken lsd the day before. Goodthing, because I don't do any hard drugs anymore, because I know theyll drive me crazy very very easily. Im sure it can make some people go completly cuckoo. LSD is the purest form of insanity. But I love it so much.
