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Flop Johnson
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Can LSD cause permanent psychosis?
#5869158 - 07/17/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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No circumstantial evidence. . . yes or no.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Flop Johnson]
#5869173 - 07/17/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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No
Edit: If Seeker says yes it can, then I admit I was wrong. My previous research suggested that it could not.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: despisedicon]
#5869231 - 07/17/06 12:49 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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uhh, yes it can, if you're prone to mental disorders, having relatives with schizophrenia, that kind of stuff.
even if you aren't prone to mental disorders, if you do high enough doses too much, it can. i've seen it happen and heard about it happening from countless people, they were never the same after X amounts of LSD.
alot of people in the psychedelic scene like the previous poster are in denial that there is risk of serious mental damage by using high doses of hallucinogens too much. some people can handle doing this, but some people can't.
also, moeron: giving people a bad rating because they gave you one for trolling a thread and making fake posts to piss people off is incredible immature. good job.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: dubbyah]
#5869252 - 07/17/06 12:59 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm gonna have to agree with ^. If you aren't right in the head before you take them, theres a chance it could get worse after, but very large doses can and will do it to people. I know a man who spent 15 years in treatment after he took his last trip, and he still isn't "normal" as he was before.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: dubbyah]
#5869295 - 07/17/06 01:13 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Flop Johnson]
#5869349 - 07/17/06 01:30 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes, definitely.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Asante]
#5869368 - 07/17/06 01:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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The problem is cause and effect.
There is no objective data (that I am aware of) showing that LSD can cause permanent damage. Intuitively, it may seem so, however you can imagine the problems in designing such a study.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: badchad]
#5869386 - 07/17/06 01:46 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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badchad said: The problem is cause and effect.
There is no objective data (that I am aware of) showing that LSD can cause permanent damage. Intuitively, it may seem so, however you can imagine the problems in designing such a study.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Flop Johnson]
#5869740 - 07/17/06 04:01 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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yes it can cause it
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Asante]
#5874233 - 07/18/06 05:04 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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How do you know this? I may cause a psychotic episode or expose underlying problems but permanent psychosis?
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: cybrbeast]
#5874293 - 07/18/06 05:28 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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by alls means yes i knew/know a kid who is f.u.b.a.r'ed and i think its because of a combonation of lsd and many of other drugs in a short period this kid was hte most coolest kid in high school now if u hang out with him its like he's a little messed up in the head example we can be watching tv together and i'll walk out the room n come back and he'll be watching the house of senate debating and he'll be laffing like some kinda madman and sometimes we'll just be sitting there chillin and he'll burst out in lafter then within seconds he'll say something that just isnt right some people might know what i mean... its kinda sad to see what happended to this guy i can't even imagine... everybody says it was his LSD use i find that just crazy i mean the kid was buying/eating sheets/acid for god knows how many years ..glad i didnt get my hands on the shit then..god knows who i'd be by now.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Asante]
#5874534 - 07/18/06 06:33 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5874817 - 07/18/06 07:30 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'd like to see some evidence on this, maybe some medical reports or research.
...from Wiki
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There are some cases of LSD inducing or triggering a psychosis in people who were apparently healthy prior to taking LSD. This issue was reviewed extensively in a 1984 publication by Rick Strassman.[34] In most cases, the psychosis-like reaction is of short duration, but in other cases it may be chronic. It is difficult to determine if LSD itself induces these reactions or if it merely triggers latent conditions that would have manifested themselves otherwise. The similarities of time course and outcomes between putatively LSD-precipitated and other psychoses suggests that the two types of syndromes are not different and that LSD may have been a nonspecific trigger. Several studies have tried to estimate the prevalence of LSD-induced prolonged psychosis arriving at numbers of around 4 in 1,000 individuals (0.8 in 1,000 volunteers and 1.8 in 1,000 psychotherapy patients in Cohen 1960 [35]; 9 per 1,000 psychotherapy patients in Melleson 1971 [36]). But these rates are far lower than the lifetime prevalence for psychotic conditions: schizophrenia, to pick just one type of psychosis, has a lifetime prevalence of about 1% in populations that are not exposed to LSD. In itself, this suggests no causative link between LSD and chronic psychotic disorders.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: cybrbeast]
#5875086 - 07/18/06 08:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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The whole universe lies inside your mind. That makes it very easy to say "that was already there" Sure, it probably was, but it was in the background, now, now its in the foreground. Play with words all you want, the end result is the same. "I was OK, then I took acid, now I'm fucked up." This is not meant to be negative in anyway towards psychedelics, psychedelics are very important powerful tools that can take us beyond sanity and also before sanity. Show them respect and use them properly.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5875430 - 07/18/06 09:28 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't know about psychosis but ask anybody that has done very large doses... they are never the same again... but ussually they report most of the changes in a positive light.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: badchad]
#5879147 - 07/19/06 08:55 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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badchad said: The problem is cause and effect.
There is no objective data (that I am aware of) showing that LSD can cause permanent damage. Intuitively, it may seem so, however you can imagine the problems in designing such a study.
Psychosis and brain damage are not synonymous. Sure, there might not be a lot of evidence that it causes brain damage, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Regardless, the original question was whether LSD can cause psychosis. Two words: Syd Barrett.
Sure, he may have had a predisposition for it, but most of the other members of Floyd are of the opinion that overuse of LSD was the main cause. They certainly knew him better than we did.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: razorbladeshoes] 1
#5879224 - 07/19/06 09:17 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Saying that someone that ends up triggering certain mental disorders after an LSD experience was going to happen anyway is impossible to prove. You would never know, as you have nothing to compare it to. Also, a question of how much time it would have taken is also another issue. Using LSD has risk, especially if you have mental disorders in your family. A really bad LSD trip can be just as traumatising as someone getting killed, though that is probally the extreme, it is possible. I also wouldn't be suprised if it LSD could trigger PTSD, in certain instances. Psychedelics can be a double edged sword.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: cybrbeast] 1
#18775711 - 08/30/13 12:13 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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cybrbeast said: I'd like to see some evidence on this, maybe some medical reports or research.
...from Wiki
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Psychosis
There are some cases of LSD inducing or triggering a psychosis in people who were apparently healthy prior to taking LSD. This issue was reviewed extensively in a 1984 publication by Rick Strassman.[34] In most cases, the psychosis-like reaction is of short duration, but in other cases it may be chronic. It is difficult to determine if LSD itself induces these reactions or if it merely triggers latent conditions that would have manifested themselves otherwise. The similarities of time course and outcomes between putatively LSD-precipitated and other psychoses suggests that the two types of syndromes are not different and that LSD may have been a nonspecific trigger. Several studies have tried to estimate the prevalence of LSD-induced prolonged psychosis arriving at numbers of around 4 in 1,000 individuals (0.8 in 1,000 volunteers and 1.8 in 1,000 psychotherapy patients in Cohen 1960 [35]; 9 per 1,000 psychotherapy patients in Melleson 1971 [36]). But these rates are far lower than the lifetime prevalence for psychotic conditions: schizophrenia, to pick just one type of psychosis, has a lifetime prevalence of about 1% in populations that are not exposed to LSD. In itself, this suggests no causative link between LSD and chronic psychotic disorders.
This bugs me.
The Cohen data shows that LSD caused psychosis in 0.13% percent of 3,850 psychotherapy patients. Life-altering long-term symptoms, not all of them lasting beyond 6 months with continued professional treatment. These are actual events and the Wiki tries to just brush them off like casual traitors to the Force.
Cocaine, amphetamines, phencyclidine, cannabinoids, LSD, mescaline, steroids, anticholinergic compounds, and steroids. These are major causes of drug-induced psychosis. (Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America)
The statement this Wiki places prominately at the end of a short rehash of -pedia dispensed evidence and research states, as a conclusion, there is no causitive link. Sorry, but we must dismiss this notion. First and foremost, it has no evidence. Second, we have no significant way of precluding ourselves as potential psychotics. Third, drug-induced psychosis is known and differentiated from latent-psychosis.
Onto the second half of the game, "Locate bullshit flung toward the careful research of professionals", through the rolling hills of assumptions that Cohen forgot painfully obvious factors, like there being less drug-induced psychotics than schizophrenics in two different population sets, and one data set is the lifetime prevelance, the other an immediate reaction lasting several months, and seperated by at least 4 decades.
Finland, as an example, lifetime prevelance of substance-induced psychotic disorder (as defined by ICD-10) was 0.42% and schizophrenia spectrum psychotic disorders 1.9%. They seem to have no trouble differentiating the two groups. Also note that drug-induced psychosis is always going to be lower than the total of psychotic disorders. I wonder if those researchers caught that one, a bit tricky.
Another study reports that 7% of alcoholics experience hallucinosis and 25% of alcoholics experience schizo-typical symptoms and hallucinations. (Handbook of Alcoholism) The drug-induced cases are clearly separate. Also note no mention of latent psychosis. Why? Nobody cares.
The subjects in the Cohen LSD research were given LSD, some intended to "induce" short-term schizophrenic symptoms, some several times, but such a prevelance of drug-induced psychosis from a couple treatments could never be attained by doing this study with alcohol. This is so obvious you may as well try it with bananas (oh wait, was that going to be your argument?). We see 7% of the drug-induced psychotics, in the real world portion of the United States, resulting from the abuse of alcohol. What might this tell us about real world experience of LSD abusers? Possibly, it tells us that we should expect a number greater than 7%.
Spiffy.
In a study made of 49 patients observed at Los Angeles County Hospital, as a direct result of LSD ingestion, 57 per cent of these patients had an extended psychosis develop although they had no previous history of psychotic behavior. (Calif Med. 1967 November; 107(5): 396–398.) Show me that with alcohol. It seems also to confirm a littely theory I had some time ago about something > 7%.
Latent psychosis is an underlying vulnerability that manifests under intense stress. Does the latent individual normally suffer through prolonged psychosis? That is what the WIKI is implying. In actual latent-psychotics live normal, oddly punctual, lives. They are a group which includes, most tellingly, the LSD users. Besides the arguments from me, you have experts of the field informing other researchers that LSD is a well-known cause of psychosis. (Abraham 1993)
So here come the crazies. People seeing the real world through the eyes of 4th grade and LSD to tell me that I got it all wrong. The ones that believe we are making up an orange-juice story to coddle the government.
A sound hypothesis would be that people already possessing mental disorders are attracted to recreational drug abuse. This is actually a well-known theory. So what difference does it make to anyone if these are the ones taking LSD? It does nothing but add to the problem, and the population of LSD users are crazy. There is so much insurmountable evidence that LSD causes psychosis, and just as much that if you stop taking it that it goes away, that if you are concerned, just stay away.
I have talked with users on-line who claim to have taken several hundered hits of acid, then they try and convince me I am being brainwashed, or better yet, closed-minded. Why would I be brainwashed? Is it because... gasp! I took drugs? My friend called me on a cell phone after leaving the mental institute. He is a nice guy, but the messages they had put in his radio, telling him to stop taking LSD, were really bothering him. Sorry, I know crazy. When you talk to walls and they talk back, crazy. You are either crazy for believing the walls talked to you, or you are crazy for believing the walls never talked to you, or you are ignoring it.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: pmoseman]
#18775805 - 08/30/13 01:11 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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crap I just realized this 7 years old.
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I think heavy doses of LSD are more likely to induce psychosis than certain other drugs, like most uppers. Uppers just need an extended period with lack of proper nourishment.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Acaterpillar]
#18776754 - 08/30/13 10:26 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think he real debate is what the fuck IS psychosis?
Every time I read the symptoms it's just a person who acts unorthodoxically compared to how people USUALLY behave. I mean, are these symptoms due to a person eroding the cultural boundaries, or is it a legitimate chemical imbalance that is dangerous to the person and the people around them?
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It does not matter a whole hell of a lot.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: pmoseman]
#18777027 - 08/30/13 11:44 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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oregonshroomers said: crap I just realized this 7 years old.
It does not matter a whole hell of a lot.
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HostDisorder said:
I think he real debate is what the fuck IS psychosis?
Every time I read the symptoms it's just a person who acts unorthodoxically compared to how people USUALLY behave. I mean, are these symptoms due to a person eroding the cultural boundaries, or is it a legitimate chemical imbalance that is dangerous to the person and the people around them?
Psychotic Disoder A cluster of psychotic phenomena that occur during or following psychoactive substance use but that are not explained on the basis of acute intoxication alone and do not form part of a withdrawal state. The disorder is characterized by hallucinations (typically auditory, but often in more than one sensory modality), perceptual distortions, delusions (often of a paranoid or persecutory nature), psychomotor disturbances (excitement or stupor), and an abnormal affect, which may range from intense fear to ecstasy. The sensorium is usually clear but some degree of clouding of consciousness, though not severe confusion, may be present. <ICD-10 Version:2010>
I hope this makes it clear that the effect of drugs on cognitive process are used as the basis for diagnosis, not behavior. While straying outside of cultural norms may be a factor in developing psychotic disorders, it is not mentioned in this category.
I do not believe chemical imbalance is useful in determining whether a psychosis is "genuine". The level of harm sufferers experience would vary from case to case. While the majority of psychotics do not pose a threat to others there is a correlation with self-harm but I feel it would be best to consider psychosis as being a harm itself.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: pmoseman]
#18777305 - 08/30/13 01:18 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is so old, let's not forget the countless suicides relating to antidepressants, those are driven by psychotic symptoms
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: pmoseman]
#18777331 - 08/30/13 01:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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There isntt any research thatt says LSD causes brain damage right? I've been looking and have found nothing but possible mental disorders
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: jp9304]
#18777363 - 08/30/13 01:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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jp9304 said: There isntt any research thatt says LSD causes brain damage right? I've been looking and have found nothing but possible mental disorders
No brain damage, but I would imagine that the people scared of psychosis would consider that itself as brain damage.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: HostDisorder]
#18778333 - 08/30/13 05:00 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lol yea. I was having an argument about that yesterday I was explaining how LSD world in our bodies and my friends sister insisted that it made u stupider and that it wasn't good for the eyes because supposedly your field of vision is expanded and that's bad supposedly lol. I was like there isno way that would happen because most psychedelics effect vision and you don't hear any negative effects from that.
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LSD can exacerbate mental illness. So while it wont stick you into a permanant trip, it could have some long term effects. I have gotten stuck in a mushroom trip full on for 8 days. No amount of thorazine or haldol help, only time. We all come down though
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: jp9304]
#18788967 - 09/02/13 10:04 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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jp9304 said: Lol yea. I was having an argument about that yesterday I was explaining how LSD world in our bodies and my friends sister insisted that it made u stupider and that it wasn't good for the eyes because supposedly your field of vision is expanded and that's bad supposedly lol. I was like there isno way that would happen because most psychedelics effect vision and you don't hear any negative effects from that.
You do hear about negative effects from that.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: pmoseman]
#18788997 - 09/02/13 10:13 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I know a bad trip could cause PTSD, but what about causing permanent psychosis in a person? or bringing out mental issues they were never prone to?
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: theRAPeutic]
#18789387 - 09/02/13 11:56 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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only religious or spiritual trauma...imho..
Fearing hell, or the concept of hell..
knowing you only live once...thinking this is only the front yard to eternal damnation.. etc.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: theRAPeutic]
#18813262 - 09/07/13 10:23 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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In short, drug induced psychosis are not permanent states, but not mere intoxication either. In the same fashion that individuals can show early psychosis, the majority of which never fully develop, you would remain partly psychotic for an indefinite period. A natural psychotic, eg schizophrenic, on the other hand, could remain indefinitely psychotic.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: pmoseman]
#18813313 - 09/07/13 10:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'd say no, unless you got mental problems already
I've taken huge amounts before, sometimes it takes a few weeks for comedown though (if you take 10+ hits or i.e. 2-3 strong hits) :-)
You always come down, sometimes after 3 days, 5 days, 2 weeks (if you binge heavily during summer).
A normal strong dose always has 1-2 days comedown for me (after glow), at least That's why strong doses should be rare/planned , don't do them on sundays when you work monday i.e. (usually do them fridays rarely, it's not pleasant getting ego ripped apart and rebuilding too often, hard work)
Perma trip sounds almost pleasant.. the comedown from lsd is always good, feel free to do anything without worries, total clarity, appreciation of everything, accepting everything you see, feeling the love everyday
We must sometimes realize that change is not always bad Psychosis is defined from cultural norms
I'd like to break away from our western culture and have already mostly done so.
Deinstall Western Operating system, Reinstall Acceptance 1.0
that's a good operating system, accept everything, appreciate everything brings happiness everyday
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: lessismore]
#18813344 - 09/07/13 10:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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If you can integrate the whole experience you might appreciate everything you have, live a simpler lifestyle, accept everything
that the gov would probably call 'mania', that's a mental illness term for being happy for too long ;-)
and if you believe in god/spirituality, you are delusional too according to them
happiness is from finding oneself, LSD can help with that it can also do the opposite, it's up to the individual to do it responsibly and moderately
I've been able to integrate almost everything from my experiences I think, but still learn from it of course
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: lessismore]
#18813456 - 09/07/13 11:27 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Our minds aren't made to handle tripping all the time. I just can't see how consistent heavy use won't screw with your head.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: lessismore]
#18813676 - 09/08/13 12:52 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Psychosis is defined by hallucinations, depression, disorganized thinking, diminished speech, and other objective realities that leave a person vulnerable and unable to care for themselves; requiring other healthy people to care for them. It is not victimless; it harms many people. You simply have not had to deal with these consequences and want to trivialize society's success and understanding as ill-contrived "norms", which only somehow only a special few can see through. Meanwhile you clearly embrace your society and are borrowing ideas left and right.
Drugs feel good. That is why people do that. I understand how great you feel about them. Many other people have had experiences with them, and, not because they were mentally ill, unaware of your magic formula, unable to integrate, or just could not overcome those pesky social norms (whatever you imagine those are, who knows), they had bad experiences; they obviously were not listening to information from the government either. My ears sure perked the fuck up after I went psychotic.
Those feelings are all just illusions; anyone can do what you are doing, with no effort, and get a pleasurable response, frankly I did not find them all that mind-boggling or enlightening either. The mind can do much more than you think, and more effectively without drugs.
Your opening statement is that we psychotics already began life mental, so you have labelled that group already. You have zilch for evidence, it just happens to appeal to you. Idolizing yourself and honestly thinking if other people just tried better they could be like you, that is deluded by far.
The reason I dismiss spirituality is because I experienced it and I had to figure out how confused I was, before I could answer even a basic question. I was blaming others who I relied upon and who had fed my mind. My knowledge and gifts never came from inside me or from some imaginary place.
You have to see things from many other points of view before you can interpret your own. Frankly your rationalities and excuses for drug use, if they were valid, give people a reason to do just anything they wanted.
As an atheist I am shocked by your inability to reason that mutual benefit must exist for moral behavior. This benefits a selfish person all the same. My reasons to lie to you, to disagree, would be no greater than any other person who agrees with you, save the millionaire currently selling you drugs.
Edited by pmoseman (09/08/13 12:56 AM)
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: pureenergy13]
#18813695 - 09/08/13 01:01 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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pureenergy13 said: Our minds aren't made to handle tripping all the time. I just can't see how consistent heavy use won't screw with your head.

Yup, moderation
If you subscribe to buddhism you moderate most of the time as a minimum :-)
Abuse of anything is desctructive for the soul, we should appreciate our bodies (as in love it) and life, that is best done by being sober most of the time (mind and body feels best sober, but LSD feels pretty good too sometimes, the love & unity with all things + no regrets next day(s))
Edited by lessismore (09/08/13 01:26 AM)
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: lessismore]
#18814150 - 09/08/13 07:11 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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mio said:...no regrets next day(s))
More than 700,000 adults over 30 suffered drug induced psychosis in their lifetime. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17199051/
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Flop Johnson]
#22948656 - 02/26/16 01:48 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yes... I took LSD three times when I was 18, and was never the same again... Without question, it served as a catalyst for more psychosis
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Flop Johnson]
#22948784 - 02/26/16 02:20 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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I mean maybe it's more that it triggers it rather than causes it, but for all intents and purposes, I think it's safe to say that lsd use can lead to permanent psychosis in some people/some situations. So, just be careful
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Flop Johnson]
#22948807 - 02/26/16 02:26 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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If he is already healthy the likelihood of you buddy taking a couple hits and being locked in a hospital for all time are so infinitesimally small it is not even worth considering. In a naturally healthy person the mind has a strong pull toward equilibrium.
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: badchad]
#22948840 - 02/26/16 02:37 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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badchad said: The problem is cause and effect.
^ this
Since we don't understand either LSD or psychosis completely, this is rather non-deterministic.
In my opinion though, no. I don't think it will *cause* permanent psychosis.
It can probably be a factor exacerbating a condition, for example that someone is predisposed to.
From another perspective, what if all the crazy people aren't really crazy. Maybe they're correct
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: micro]
#22950984 - 02/27/16 03:10 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm supposed to have schizophrenia, or have had it, and I smoked DMT and had a wonderful time.
Cannabis though...
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: HostDisorder]
#22951003 - 02/27/16 03:30 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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HostDisorder said: I think he real debate is what the fuck IS psychosis?
Every time I read the symptoms it's just a person who acts unorthodoxically compared to how people USUALLY behave. I mean, are these symptoms due to a person eroding the cultural boundaries, or is it a legitimate chemical imbalance that is dangerous to the person and the people around them?
umm.....psychosis is inability to perceive objective reality. It is full-blown illusions and delusions. Psychedelics combined with dopaminergics can definitely induce psychosis, that much I know
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Re: Can LSD cause permanent psychosis? [Re: Asante]
#22951529 - 02/27/16 10:18 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Asante said: Yes, definitely.
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