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When I was a teenager my friends and I took LSD one night and one of the group took twice as much as everyone else and had a full blown psychotic episode, runni
by pault 9y ago
When I was a teenager my friends and I took LSD one night and one of the group took twice as much as everyone else and had a full blown psychotic episode, running around the house breaking things and screaming that he was going to kill me. He got off easy; he didn't remember any of it. The rest of us had serious PTSD. For two years after that every time I heard someone yell my pulse would accelerate and my palms would sweat. I don't bring this up to say that LSD is inherently dangerous, just that it peels back all of the defensive layers of abstraction that you live in day to day, so anything that happens to you in that state can have serious and long lasting consequences (good and bad).
- scruple 9y agoI've touched on it on HN before but I also had a very, very bad trip once. It wasn't the first bad trip but it was the worst and one of the worst I've heard from people who I've shared the experience with. Out of the dozens or more positive experiences I had, it was enough to turn me off of psychedelics and drugs in general for, so far, the rest of my life. I won't get in to the details, but like yourself, it mostly came down to the folks who I was with (who I trusted absolutely prior to this experience). I also had a lot of the blame, because I simply took too much that night. It took me years to fully recover my personality. To me, it is very dangerous, indeed, to suggest that nothing bad can come from psychedelic experimentation.