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LSD: Not Even Once
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#13Both those trip reports are very unusual for psylocibin and LSD. It looks to me that the author might have other health complications that caused the bad trips. As a general advice one should be very careful when taking psychedelics with other prescribed medications or having a history of mental illness.
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#14Sounds like a CNS injury with symptoms that are pretty much mirror benzodiazepine and alcohol withdrawals.
No matter how unusual or rare it is to experience this, it's really worth surfacing cases like these. I'd rather not take the risk at all, even if the risk is really low.
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#15Seems like it got the hug of death. Just based on the headline, I disagree. If you have a genetic propensity for schizophrenia or things like that then yes, avoid it. But for the vast majority of LSD users it’s a transformative experience. Drinking alcohol is socially accepted but tens of millions of Americans have some sort of diagnosed use disorder with it and almost 100k people died last year to drinking. Do we sa…
I feel like this kind of whataboutism misses the mark. To be clear - I'm in no way advocating for alcohol, or against its damages to society.
But one like the article is about doing something safely, once, in your own place. Dangers of alcohol are generally overdose, long term abuse, and accidents.
How many people drink one beer in the safety of their home with trusted people, and have their life turned upside down?
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#16People who have a history of mental illness in their family or suspect they may have latent mental illness should be wary of some drugs. Nitrous oxide is dissociative as is kratom. This person's first bad experience with psilocybin should have warned them off LSD, as there are many anecdotal stories of people losing their minds because they were mentally ill to begin with (Syd Barret of Pink Floyd). Millions of peopl…
I've never heard of kratom being dissociative. It feels like hydrocodone to me
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#17Seems like it got the hug of death. Just based on the headline, I disagree. If you have a genetic propensity for schizophrenia or things like that then yes, avoid it. But for the vast majority of LSD users it’s a transformative experience. Drinking alcohol is socially accepted but tens of millions of Americans have some sort of diagnosed use disorder with it and almost 100k people died last year to drinking. Do we sa…
> If you have a genetic propensity for schizophrenia
How would you know until something triggers it? Getting permanently mindfucked from LSD is an awful way to discover this.
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#18Although I don't agree with the author's conclusion, it is true that drugs can have long-term side effects on sensitive parts of the brain.
Tinnitus in particular is fairly common and is listed as a side-effect on many prescription meds. I've experienced it after taking DMT and it also lasted about a year. I've also had small visual changes that are harder to pinpoint and certain smells being amplified.
The risk is small for the average person and it usually goes away, so it's really a personal choice if it's worth it.
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#19This is one of two reasons why I decided to not try anything, ever. 1. What if it’s the most amazing thing ever, like ADHD medication, what if you get insanely productive, and you then have to go back to being mediocre? 2. What if it triggers something bad. If I get 10% worse at focusing on a solving a problem? Nope
Or #3: You didn’t personally meet the chemist to know what you really took and now you don’t even know what’s causing your life’s problems.
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#20Isn't it true for even over the counter drugs and even foods that they can fuck you up if you are predisposed to have an issue with the substance? Why would LSD be any different. It's like getting mad at people promoting peanuts because some people die if they eat them.