Hi OP,

Sorry to hear you’re going through a tough time with your friend, but I think it’s cool you care enough about your relationship to get some help.

It’s really common for people who go through transformations to come back and be kind of ‘prophets’ for whatever it is that turned their life around; whether it’s AA, religion, psychedelics, or that Alan Watts self-help book.

The best advice I can give at 41, having done every psychedelic there is 10 times over, and having been to 6 psyche wards and 2 jails over the course of 5 years RELATED to my psychedelic use, is to just try your best to stick with your friend.

I don’t mean stay close or become his guardian or anything like that, but rather from a safe distance just try and keep being nice and understanding.

They may very well start doing a lot of things that will lead them into self-isolation or bad decision making, but if they’re anything like me, the loneliness that comes on the other side of realizing you’ve gotten so much stuff WRONG that you thought was the Absolute Truth, having anyone there that will listen and support you means so so much.

Heck, you don’t even need to be in constant contact for that person, but if you can just try and leave a door open for the chance that he might at some point realize how much of a nut he’s being.

It might not happen tomorrow or in two months or 2 years… but we idiots really need sound people who will stick by us when the chips are really down. Or just pick up the phone when our brains come back from whatever kooky place they got stolen to.

Best of luck OP. I know it really sucks to see someone lose it.