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Using Psychedelic Drugs to Get to Know Yourself

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In a very long article he seems to be mentioning unwanted side effects only as a small side note.

I find this rather harmful, and think journalists should know better.

I took LSD when I was 18, lured by stories of Steve Jobs and others and I had the worst time of my time. Bad trip doesn't begin to describe it. It left me with psychosis lasting 4 months and making me fail my first year at the university.

I only began taking antypsychotic medication after one year, when my psychosis was triggered again by marihuana.

Would I suffer psychosis without drugs? My psychiatrist doesn't believe so, but it very well might have happened. But why risk getting it triggered while being under influence of powerful drugs and risking killing yourself?

(Under psychosis caused by Marihuana I almost jumped out of a high construction building)

Sorry for stupid rant, just wished journalists had some integrity and would not lightly promote illegal substances that have real social cost on users. (From my talks with psychiatrists in psychiatric ward, a lot of users come with psychosis triggered by marihuana/amphetamine/mephedrone use)

At the same time, I was a bit younger when I tried and had the best experience of my life and it fixed my stutter and led me to become more empathic.

Maybe I was just lucky, the friends I made were into Timothy Leary and Shulgin books, and I loved internet and Erowid was the perfect place to read experiences, learn about dose, environment and how to fully succeed and get what you want out of the trip.

But different time, different era, this was before the bath salt craze.

But doing it is something I'll never regret.

The same goes for meditating and "retreat centers". Enligthing, leisure, and chilling effects is not what everyone gets. Population isn't equal, and psychic sideeffects up to dramatic psychotic consequences for individual cases are known for a long period of time.

But please do not exaggerate your own disposition on the rest of the populatio n of the planet. Visual descriptions of such dramatic situations could fear the shit out of nice people, just wanting to talk to you, or just smoke a spliff while you talk.

I mean, i am happy you have your problems with psychotic drugs under control, but you cannot save people from that, because if they knew they had that disposition they wouldn't use it in the first place.

How to safely identify psychotic dispositions in the individual brain BEFORE drug usage?

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