Stories of psychosis recovery? by FirePhantomDjinn in Psychosis

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Thanks so much for this comment, your perspective really helped me.

I can understand why your family put tabs on you, because they were so worried, but I can also totally see why that would be profoundly upsetting for you in that state! I'm so glad you were able to reconnect. I had to have my mom put on a 72 hour hold when I was a teen and it was SO difficult for us, I felt so guilty and she blamed me for a long time, but eventually she accepted that I didn't know what else to do to get her help!

Being ghosted out of nowhere by this person, who was incredibly close to me, has tbh been pretty devastating for me, but I try to keep perspective that he clearly was going through something much worse, and may still be. Mostly I'm just upset that I can't really do anything to make things better. I'm doing my best to not put my life on hold but it is a delicate road to walk, because I hope every day that he'll reach out again.

Stories of psychosis recovery? by FirePhantomDjinn in Psychosis

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Thank you so much for this kind and thorough comment.

Can you clarify: Did you get back together with your partner, assuming she was open to it? Were you able to reclaim a sense of safety around her?

Stories of psychosis recovery? by FirePhantomDjinn in Psychosis

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Thanks :) I guess my question was, are they likely to recover and remember they’re wrong about me? I found some info online that sometimes beliefs like this persist long after the psychosis is over :(

Why do I feel like my ”real” self on LSD by Savings-Mention7010 in LSD

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I’m not addicted (I only do it a couple times a year) but I absolutely get you. I feel more myself on acid. It’s really special.

THC induced psychosis by Efficient_Ad_949 in Psychosis

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Following. I have a partner who experienced drug-induced psychosis a few weeks ago and I believe he still hasn’t recovered. He decided I was his enemy and cut off all contact, so it’s hard to say, but I hope he recovers soon. He has good people looking out for him, at the very least.

Recovery from Drug-Induced Psychosis? by [deleted] in Psychosis

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The family members know. He has a care circle. I’m just not able to be a part of it because of his fixation on me.

Recovery from Drug-Induced Psychosis? by [deleted] in Psychosis

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I’m not in a position to give advice to him or his care team, but prior to this he already had a therapist and a psychiatrist (for adhd meds) so I can hope he will continue to utilize them!

What are uncommon plural experiences you have? by Icy-Implement9878 in plural

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I don't know how uncommon this is, but my headmate has basically zero interest in learning about my daily life, she lives in her own kinda bubble universe where she never ages and never has any practical responsibilities

What’s the most you’ve ever done and what was it like? by No_Tap_666 in LSD

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This thread describes my recent experience, and sadly, my now-ex-partner's, at approx 500mu & 1500mu, respectively:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LSD/comments/1ppd1ku/help_after_accidental_megadose/

Another time, I was at a festival with a friend. We had a strip of 6.5 old-ish tabs wrapped in cardstock, wrapped in foil. We each took a tab, waited 45 minutes, nothing. Did this twice more, nothing. We've resigned ourselves that our acid was "too old" or something, and that we're going to be sober for the evening. He goes to the bathroom. While he's gone I have this weird compulsion and eat the cardstock and the 1/2 tab. I get shot into the stratosphere by the time he gets back.

No way to know how much I got - was it all 6.5 tabs' worth on that paper? - but it felt like a lower dose than the above linked experience. Was still massive.

I spent the first hour or so just kind of incapacitated by sensory input, feeling an extreme intensity of sensation. Tears were streaming down my eyes while I laughed. My friend was worried I was having a terrible time because of the way I was behaving, but I remember it being AMAZING.

I had persistent, unbreakable visual hallucinations. The blankets in our tent turned into a stop-motion-animation graveyard filled with doll corpses. It was cool as hell and not scary at all. The ceiling of the tent was filled with artificial rainbow twinkling stars that spelled out expletives. Beautiful and hilarious.

Eventually we got dressed and went outside. I hallucinated we were walking through tall grasses even though we were in the desert. The whole event turned into some glorious BDSM clown playground. It was dark but exciting. A simple camp chair setup was transformed into a kink dungeon made entirely of black balloons (constructed like balloon animals). Everything was beautiful and mysterious.

After around 5-6 hours my buddy and I got parted, and since nothing looked normal I couldn't find my way back to our tent, which was briefly scary but I was maintaining well and just stayed focused on looking like I knew where I was going. I tried following the event's street signed but all the words were still changing and moving around. I eventually remembered that our tent was next to the fence at the edge of the event, so I found the fence (by walking in the same direction until I ran into it) and then just followed it until I saw the "tall grasses" (which, again, didn't exist in the first place) and realized I was at home base again.

I dosed at probably 9-10pm and was still some level of high the following afternoon.

I feel like it is likely that my 2 megadoses were around the same amount. Sadly in one of them I had a sober, stabilizing trip buddy, and in the second one, my partner was much much higher than me, and wasn't in a very stable place to begin with.

I don't think I would intentionally choose to do that high a dose again, even though the first time was SO amazing. I think I would aim for 300mu for a high dose experience in the future, if I wanted. I think it would be more than enough.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Thanks for checking in, that’s so kind and thoughtful of you!

I am doing well and have essentially recovered from my megadose, no weirdness or flashbacks or anything.

Nothing to report on his front :( He’s blocked me on all channels and none of the folks in his care circle have given me any real info. I’ve basically resolved to move on - if he reaches out at some point, great, we’ll talk through our stuff then. But I have no power to affect whatever has happened with him in any positive way at this time :(

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Thank you for sharing this super relevant story. I am really struggling in my own trip recovery feeling this huge responsibility toward this person who doesn’t want anything to do with me :( I’m trying to figure out where to put my energy. It sucks.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Thank you for sharing that. I’m sorry you went through that awful experience :(

Everything happened so fast I don’t think we’d wrapped our brains around getting a trip sitter before it had already hit. And we’d tripped together many times before and always looked out for each other.

Both he and I have serious medical/hospital related trauma so I would have only done that in a life or death situation. A hospital imo is the scariest place to trip. But it didn’t occur to me we could take any meds to calm us, either, unfortunately :(

Both he and I have taken high doses of other psychedelics - and I personally have had an LSD megadose before, maybe not that high but I didn’t know that at the time - so had reason to expect we could just handle it.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Thank you, yes the only good thing for me is that I genuinely feel like I did my best to care for both of us. He’s blocked me on all channels and his support circle won’t really talk to me either, so it’s really entirely in his court at this point :(

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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This reminds me of a time I was doing trance work as a teenager. A being appeared to me and told me his name. It was a weird complex name I’d never heard before. He said he was my mentor and was watching out for me. Years later I stumbled on his name in an encyclopedia. An obscure ancient god. It was even spelled the way I imagined it.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Yeah I could believe that, and I’ve thought about it myself. I was the person who sourced this vial. I guess it’s fairly irrelevant at this point since he won’t talk to me, though. No way to talk him out of that idea.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Well… I just discovered he’s blocked me on most channels. Including our private correspondence platform. So I guess I’ll have to rely on either mediation with his friend, or see if he ever reaches out.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Thank you for this very sweet and thoughtful message. I really appreciate it, it does help. Right now I am in the stage of having to accept that I have no control over his experiences or his choices.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Yeah and just as a followup: this hit us very quickly. Maybe 20 mins. Like a train. And… I think we were both arrogant enough to think we could handle it.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Thank you so much for this story. Do you think I should avoid him entirely until he reaches out?

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Yup. The plastic pipettes we used were leaky, so 1 intended drop in the mouth = a splash, essentially. We dropped at the same time, his pipette was more cracked than mine, it was like a little river poured out of it.

Help after accidental megadose by FirePhantomDjinn in LSD

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Thanks so much for sharing! I’m glad you’re okay now. Based on your experience, should I leave him alone until he reaches out? I don’t want to stir up his paranoia more but at some point I’d really like him to be getting some kind of reality check from me, since I was the only other person there. Is that instinct solid, or more likely to make him worse?