Is there any proof that people trying to fly and jumping off a building is actually real? I always assumed it's some sort of anti drug meme that had been around since forever.
Everybody thinks they are immune to psychotic breaks until they do enough psychedelics and have one. This could be you some day.
Everybody thinks they are immune to psychotic breaks until they do enough booze and have one. This could be you some day.
Seems quite petty of a response.
They were specificaly asking about people wanting to fly.
“And I have never, ever seen anybody try to fly.” was the direct quote. Doesn’t say anything about psychotic breaks or deaths.
Better decriminalize murder in that case.
if murder were legalized, the murder rate would jump, a lot.
It's not that uncommon. If you don't believe me, volunteer for a medical tent for any music festival where psychedelic use is rampant. You'll get psychotic breaks all night.
One of you is saying "mushrooms" and the other is saying "psychedelics".
If you get caught in this state at a music festival and restrained (sometimes restrained to a gurney if you are caught in a camping festival like Electric Forest and they determine an ambulance is not necessary) you get sent off via an ambulance where they will feed you benzodiazepines/antipsychotics and hold you at a hospital until you are back to reality, incurring a pretty hefty ER bill. This is not just a bad trip that someone can talk you down from. This is literally losing control of your entire being. It's like having someone else at the wheels. Short term psychosis.
That's how ALL big music festivals in the US handle psychotic breaks. They won't let you just go around the festival endangering yourself and being a menace to the rest of the patrons.
Not a great place to be in, but I've seen it enough times to know it's not uncommon.
Whether that's because people whose brains are more likely to experience psychosis are more drawn to music festivals, whether it's a supply-trust or dosage issue (lower purity or higher potency compounds, goers don't know what they took or how much), or that prior exposure to cultural lore like "drugs makes people want to fly" is influencing them, I don't know.
Age is also a known factor - schizophrenia is more likely to emerge around the age of maturity, often associated with stress and drug use (again, may be wet roads causing rain - people self-medicate even if they don't realize it), even though, statistically, "college" would be just as likely, and it often happens as a psychotic break, the way you described. I worked with young musicians for many years and saw it happen regularly enough - no psychedelics required.
So the fact that everything you mention happens is evidence, but of what? That's a harder question to answer.
I’ve witnessed it. There might have been weed and/or alcohol involved as well.
Or massive sleep deprivation powered by stimulant abuse over a protracted period of time.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bali-death-ong...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-jumped-from-balcony-afte...
This is the scene, no idea what movie though.