I had a psychotic break a week after my first and only acid trip.

I'm not a weak person, but I'm very abstract with an intricate personality. I decided to try lsd at age 17. I took two hits of some moderately potent cid. My views on life and reality itself were forever changed when I came down. Through the course of the next week I was basically a zombie according to my family. I had about two very emotional moments in that week.

At the end of the week I had a psychotic break. I started thinking I was Eve from the old testament of the bible and that I had to suffer for the fall of man, and it only got worse and I got crazier from there. It was terrifying. The psychotic break was like a nightmare of random things plus a lot of my irrational fears all in one. My family didn't take me to the hospital for over a week. For over a week I didn't eat, drink, or sleep.

I'll never be the same. I don't regret doing lsd as it helped to shape me into the person I am today. But why did I have a psychotic break? Why does anyone have psychotic breaks after doing lsd?

 

Don't eat acid ever, ever again. Any psychedelic for that matter. That's the truest advice out there.

 

You dont quit the Drugs the drugs quit you, quitter you gonna let that acid tell you what to do?

 

i had a psychotic break out waited a couple of months and got back to the drugs and im doing just fine all im saying good luck :2thumbsup:

 

So I take it you are a female. It seems that females are a bit more prone to catatonia, and mental breaks when it comes to LSD. 2 hits may have been a bit too much. If you decide totry again, maybe cut your hits in half?

 

I don't recommend touching lsd again, though other psyches might be ok. No one knows why they happen, but it means your mind is not compatible with that kind of pressure... This sounded like a life threatening break so don't push your luck

 

Uhmmm...
Maybe your psychotic break was because you didn't eat, sleep or drink anything for over a week. But then again considering that most humans will die in 3-5 days without water, maybe you were just suffering from dehydration, because after about 3 days with no food sleep and especially water, you would be acting strange and look like shit.

Actual true psychotic episodes that are precipitated by LSD use are extremely rare events, on the order of about .01% of people who take LSD.

I kind of get a slight whiff of troll, any body else smell it?

 

I do. 1 post...

 

All the way over here.

 

You kind of get a slight whiff of a troll? Well it's coming from you, because you REEK. And I had the psychotic break first, that's what caused me to stop eating and sleeping dumbass.

 

Is there a history of mental illness, especially schizophrenia, in your family?
Have you ever had any other type of mental breakdown or emotional issues that required intervention?

As I said, true psychotic breaks as the result of taking LSD are exceptionally rare, especially after one time. That information is based on almost 60 years of research with LSD. It can happen, but not as readily as the popular media would suggest. LSD is actually one of the safest substances known considering the profound effects it elicits.


What isn't very rare or exceptional is people coming on here and with their first post telling some tragic horror story of how substance XYZ caused problems ABC.

I seriously doubt you went over a week without food, water or sleep. Most humans die without water for that long and sleep deprivation is well known to induce short term psychosis.

My god when are you trolls going to learn how to construct a plausible bullshit story?

 

it's called hyperbole. We all do it.
Anybody that takes 'no food, water, sleep' that literally needs to loosen up.

 

I came on this site looking for answers from people who have used hallucinogens and are more familiar with it's affects than I am. In fact this will be my only thread. How on earth does that make me a troll? You can go f-- yourself. Don't be ignorant for your own sake. I did go that long without food, sleep or water, and it's a miracle that I'm alive. I was psychotic, I thought the food and water were poisoned! I exaggerated maybe to make a point. I probably had sips of water here and there, there are large pieces of time missing that I don't remember. Some nights I probably got about 20 minutes to a half hours of sleep. I woke up in a mental hospital, I was in a coma for three days. I'm sorry it sounds like some made up "tragic horror story", but it's something that truly happened to me.

I'm not quick to anger but when I go somewhere looking for answers about what happened to me it really boils my blood to have someone accusing me of making up a story about something extremely traumatic that almost took my life.

I don't even know if the lsd is what caused it, I just believe it played a large roll in it. I've had a lot of things off balance in my body, thyroid, hormones ect. and I don't know if there's a history of mental illness because my bio father was adopted.

 

I think they jumped on ya a little too quick. I could tell your post was genuine enough.

But consider that we get a handful 'one post wonders' here daily and it's not too hard to see why it happens.

A forum is like a party. You gotta mingle first.

 

I understand. I didn't want to type my incident out in full detail, because there is a lot of detail. No one is going to sit there and read something that long. I wanted answers quick. But I'm done feeding the trolls. I've already established that I'll never be doing any type of hallucinogens again. Does anyone else have any valuable information?

 

Well if your being truthful in your telling, then I will offer my apologies.
Lot's of folks post up items such as this in hopes of stirring the pot. I hope you can also understand my and others skepticism about such postings.
If you were losing time and ended up in a coma, something else is going on more than just your exposure to LSD.

As said earlier, such occurrences are extremely rare, they can and do happen, but very, very rarely. You should be looking at more is maybe the LSD experience exacerbated some other underlying issues rather than thinking along the lines that the LSD caused the episode.

Maybe you should consider WHY you got fixated on the thoughts and ideation that you did. Often there are underlying emotional/psychological issues that can surface during a psychedelic experience and often they can manifest in ways that only have significance to that individual.
You know now that you are not Eve and held accountable for the sins of the world, don't you?
So ask yourself why that particular line of thought.
What meaning or significance does that have for you personally?
These are the questions you should be exploring.
Psychedelics have a rather unique facility for exposing some deep and at times hard to except revelations and insights about ourselves and our relationships. In almost all the cases I have read about that resulted in some type of breakdown with psychedelics, the root cause is some facet of themselves that is hard to come to terms with. But when faced head on, considered and reconciled, the negative experience almost always results in a positive outcome.
First step for you may be to recognize that you are NOT responsible for anyone elses actions or "sins", and consider what caused you to feel such responsibility.
Next thing and maybe one of the most important is to forgive yourself and accept yourself.

Finally, if you are having serious issues relating to things that transpired during a psychedelic experience that ended up with hospitalization, this forum wouldn't be my first choice to seek help.

 

At the time that I took it I was in a very bad place in life. I'd had a few pretty traumatic events in my past that I didn't really come to terms with. I was ignoring life and in a way lying to my self about who I was. So undoubtedly it was probably way to much for my mind.

I'm not having serious issues now, I've recovered quite well. I'm way to stubborn to let me self become a vegetable. I know this isn't the best place to seek help, but I was hoping that maybe by chance there would be someone who has had or knows someone who has had a similar experience. Or maybe some type of hippy with some deep insight. I had a lot of other dillusions other than the Eve one. You've inspired me to maybe analyze some of the dillusions that I had that I can remember. At least the ones that weren't just nonsense. Appreciate it.

 

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Well no shit. I do sincerely wish you the best from this point on, though.


And fine, sinisterbotanist, I'll be nicer. :><:

I personally don't think we have the whole story. The manner things were dealt with post trip also sounds a little sketch to me too. But ok, don't wanna be an asshole more than the original post.

 

How the fuck is that relevant? And give the guy a break, he took a risk MANY of us on this forum take and he happened to have one of the rare adverse reactions. I'm sure his ordeal with psychosis helped him come to terms with whatever issues he previously faced.