Hi. I appreciate everyone’s response. I apologize in advance if I don’t respond. I’m pretty insecure when it comes to sharing my opinions and continuing conversations. I wanted to know if anyone here besides myself contemplate whether they are still tripping since their diagnosis with schizophrenia? For instance, I was diagnose Sept2014. In August 2014 I took an acid tab and a couple handfuls or more of dried golden teacher psilocybin mushrooms. I didn’t measure them. I think the voices I hear are just a part of an ongoing trip. Or my brain has just been permanently opened…maybe the third eye so they say. ?
I’ve also read in Living With Schizophrenia that LSD and other drugs can onset schizophrenia, but I’m just wondering if what I’m experiencing is just an ongoing trip.
I experienced a nightmare of a trip from Mescaline in college.
Basically triggered my Schizophrenic symptoms.
Messed with my head for years.
I was never the same again.
Learned my lesson the hard way.
Stay away from drugs people.
I don’t trust psychiatrists right now. I don’t need them pushing the latest pills on me to make them more money. Medications that could potentially do more harm than good. They don’t know everything that God knows.
If I’m not tripping, my next guess is that I’m having spiritual trouble.
I had a friend who accidentally did a ton of acid through an eyedropper, and now has permanent visual distortions. He can’t drive a car or even walk in a straight line.
The bottom line is, it doesn’t matter what caused your illness. The important thing now is managing your symptoms. The way to manage them is through medication and therapy.
It must have been those shaman herbs I took…completely forgot about that. Totally legal btw. My intern therapist said he thought I had brain damage from spice or something. Now it’s all making sense.
I also thought that something was laced years ago. Probably not but I’ll never know.
I got a lot of problems going on with me. I did think at one time I was having flashbacks.
This is a common experience amongst those with depersonalization/derealization/HPPD/psychosis. While physically impossible, many people with similar drug induced conditions feel as if they’re “still high” or “still tripping”. Consider the fact that just being high on LSD is itself, similar to mild psychosis. LSD and other hallucinogens are known to trigger the onset of schizophrenia/psychosis in those that are vulnerable. I too had the onset of my symptoms occur after the use of synthetic/hallucinogenic drugs.
I would think that the LSD and mushrooms made your case of schizophrenia worse. Drugs can trigger schizophrenia in someone who had the propensity to get it anyways.
My LSD use when I was 19 surely triggered my schizophrenia. My advice to you is simply not to take anymore hallucinogenics. That stuff is powerful and does a number on your mind and if you have a major disabling mental illness like schizophrenia which screws up your perceptions and thought processes, taking hallucinogens will just add to it. I think the drugs and the disease are kind of intertwined in you. You can’t really look at your illness and separate which one is doing what to your mind. Whatever you are going through is probably a combination and blend of the drugs and the illness.
A mind is a fragile thing. Don’t press your luck and don’t fool around with these drugs anymore. It is taking unnecessary chances to do drugs with this disease.
I wernt through the phase where I thought the disease made me a shaman or something, or that I was enlightened. But I never saw any evidence that was true. All my great insights were gibberish when I told them to people. Schizophrenia is a medical disease. And to combat the disease, you need medication. All my supposedly great musings and grand thoughts had no use in the real world.
W/e dude…stay unhealthy…and don’t listen to people…im not diagnosing you I’m just telling you what you have. Sooooo many people have HPPD they have a support forum for HPPD alone. Its not something psychiatrists diagnosis…its very misunderstood and understudied. But as someone who experienced it first hand I have more of a better opinion than a doctor does on something that has little study on. I know what works. Call me unconventional, going against the grain, was just trying to help. Not gonna respond again if youre gonna give me an egotistical attitude. Peace have a good life.
I’m going through spiritual warfare. Not “schizophrenia” You all should look up The Evils of Psychiatry on YouTube. Also Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry’s Deadliest Scam.
Some meds are fine sometimes, but, yeah…it’s spiritual warfare. Perception is not always accurate, but some of the things experienced and sensed are real.
Why do you feel the need to make up fantasies to explain what’s going on when there’s decades of research, not to mention experience on this board, that indicate your spiritual explanation is delusional
I guess there’s a desire for magical thinking in some people… I don’t see the draw. It’s like a fork in the road and instead of choosing something helpful you chose to dig your self a deeper hole.