LSD and Pot led to psychotic break?

Last year a friend of mine offered me LSD. I had no previous experience with drugs, and acid was something I was very interested in so I quickly ingested it. We drove around a bit until it kicked in and I was having a blast. Lights would swirl and I would have almost religious realizations so easily, then something happened. We were parked in an old parking lot that we had been in many times and I couldn't stop grinding my teeth. Every time I bit down id get this sensation all through my body and head. This scared the hell out of me, I don't know why, it just did. I went into a state of pure panic and had my friend drive me home. The rest of the trip was seemingly enjoyable, nothing largely exciting happened. I just sat in my room and had an okay time. Woke up the next morning and felt fine..

About a month later me and the same friend were hanging out and smoking pot. I had a small amount of pot smoking experience prior to this and had enjoyed it greatly. But this time it was different.. After smoking a decent amount we were driving home and I started to feel a strange but framiliar sensation in my teeth. Pot had somehow launched me back into LSD-land. All the effects of acid were back in full. This made me once again go into a state of sheer terror and panic, I rushed home and went to sleep. But this time when I woke up things were not normal.

The effects didn't go away! Every time id get in a car my teeth would once again start to feel that strange sensation and my heart would race as my mind spun into panic. Then my entire mental health just collapsed. I started having psychotic episodes and severe panic attacks on a regular basis. There were no triggers, just the fear of feeling the way I felt that night.

I went to a psychiatrist and told him the entire story. He prescribed me an anti depressant (which I just stopped taking) and Xanax. Not sure if he did the right thing, but whatever. What im wondering is if there are other people out there that seemed to develop mental problems after LSD or pot usage. I'm sure I can't be entirely alone...

 

it shouldnt just be in your teeth, it should be in all your bone

 

Your not alone but, your problems were already present before you doing lsd, This has just made you more aware of your being alive now. Before you were probable much of a drone just doing what everyone else has been doing. You might be tence about where you stand at in time, in the sence that your awaking in a pulsating universe thats living and dying before your eyes, yet you seem to go on forever in the present,
does this make you sad or happy? So really the drug may have touched your soul some but now its your soul thats trying to touch something else cause there has to be more to this illusion called life. Just keep taking your xanax, smoke a bud and chill. The galaxy isnt going to colapse. and youll tell another tale tomarrow...

Since the end is never told we pay the teller off in gold in hopes he will come back but he can not be bought or sold...

 

I agree with orison, though also it doesnt quite sound like you were ready to drop acid if it led to sheer terror that fast.

Lsd unlocks genetic mental problems also apparently, so if your family had anything that might be the cause of psychotic episodes. then again you could be merely misrepresenting the truth behind your feelings as psychotic episodes. What are these episodes consisting of?

 

Schizophrenia runs in my family. Though I did not know this at the time that I dropped acid. So I guess I was the wrong person to try psychadelics aye.

 

um no. your geekin man. chill out. sounds like you got taken to the edge and back. i had the same thing happen to me on one of my trips. came back smoked pot went nuts for a few months. i got over it, and now im a much better person. youre on the right path my friend. whats the worst that can happen? just let it go dude. try shrooms. personally i was scared of all drugs for awhile when it happened to me, but then i tried shrooms and had a really spiritual experience unlike acid. it helped me immensely.

 

life is far too short to get caught in this kind of mindframe. you arent fucked up. dont let anyone tell you that you are.

 

yeah you only have a problem if u think u do. once I inhaled a piece of green pepper into my voice box while shroomin and I thoght I was choking, even tho I could still breathe. I went to the hospital and they called the next day saying a did have a piece of something in there, but by then it as gone.

but when i shroomed after that, I swore the green pepper was still in there, sometimes I thought it was there just after smoking weed. I just had to tell myself it didn't exist, and it went away. not the same as your deal but it had the potential to scare the hell outta me, which coulda led to not wanting to take drugs again. the mind is much more powerful than we realize, it can be our enemy or our guardian

 

what kinds of psychotic episodes?

 

Same thing happened to me. I have a post about an LSD trip I had a few years ago. I dealt with psychotic breaks/psychedelic crisis/existential crisis accompanied with panic attacks on a regular basis for months after I stopped dropping acid. I tried getting back into smoking weed - it gave me the same break and terror.. even 2 years after taking the LSD. Now if I drink too much alcohol I get similar effects..

I guess it's a good thing in a way? I don't smoke, drink or do drugs anymore. I'm fine on a regular basis now if I don't intoxicate myself in any way.

 

That doesn't sound like psychosis. You were aware what was going on, and that something was wrong, which probably caused the panic.

 

I'd be interested to hear OP if these symptoms still exist now (years later from this post)