I only ever took magic mushrooms a very few times and the last time I think was over thirty years ago. However even now sometimes when I close my eyes I get vague mushroom images which I find disturbing. Is this magic mushroom psychosis and what can I do about it? One time I took magic mushrooms and acid at the same time: was that a stupid thing to do? I am not here to condemn psychedelics for everyone but wonder if they did me any good as they perhaps have made me oversensitive, less able to concentrate and less emotionally/psychologically resilient than I need to be? I feel that my life is a mess and maybe partly because of this. Could a shamanic healer help me with this maybe?
Psychedelic drugs don't cause psychosis or things like that. They simply alter your state of conscious. If that state of conscious makes you aware of something in your past your brain may be blocking out and avoiding, that could definitely have an impact on your life if you never resolve that issue. In my opinion, that issue, if it's strong enough to be bothering you thirty years later, probably was very traumatic in your life and has been affecting your life to this day, you just weren't aware of it before. They've had a similar effect on me, and I do notice a difference in my attitude. I've been more depressed lately, but that's because it made me aware of things I wasn't aware of before, and now I can actually work on those issues, or at least know they're there and act accordingly. I think that's why most people can't handle intense psychedelics, because they think the drug causes that state of mind, but drugs don't give you anything that wasn't already there.
Psychosis or even Psychotic tendencies may lay dormant for years, or they may manifest themselves in unusual and unpredictable way's. But Psychedelic drugs can increase the risks of a prolonged psychosis, in those who already suffer from a psychological impairment.
They're a hallucinogen, they weren't meant to be good for you. But seeing as how im not a doctor I cant give you a realistic answer to your unspecified question. A shaman, maybe? But they tend to use drugs in some of there ceremonies and not to be a prolific racist but some of there traditions seems very ummm undereducated like the sun dance for instance, my buddy did 1 a few years ago.... Said it hurt lol anyways. Try a doctor or just live with it. I suffer from mild psychosis, its a permanent OBE. pretty scary... called depersonalization/derealization. Coulda been from mushroom use, I will never know though I did mushrooms right out of adolescence and kinda disrupted my puberty a bit, but then again how do I know? Same goes for you!
There may be after-effects for a time, but gradually they will fade away. Keep yourself cleansed and maintain a healthy diet. If psychosis were a real threat to you, it would have occurred long before this. Rejoice and live in peace and love.
Close eye visuals = psychosis? No no no no no. If you were psychotic, you'd be in a reality you actually believe is reality, and trying to convince other people of it. You're just anxious. What is the nature of the images you see? I have always seen flashes of color when closing my eyes. Psychedelic use has not changed my natural closed eye visuals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination DR/DR is not a form of psychosis, it's dissociative. I've experienced it too, on a daily basis for a while, but I'm much better now. You just need to live your life as if nothing was different and it leaves.
This is called delayed hallucinations...Which are caused by an interruption of neurons into the synapses, which allows neurons, electrochemical messengers if you will, to form complete circuits within the central nervous system when the brain is functioning normally. This is the mechanism of the brains action that helps to distinguish conscious perceptions from internal memory based perceptions, hence the term flashbacks. Persons diagnosed as depressed, with acute anxiety or with either of the three stages of bi-polar illness should never take a hallucinogenic drug, for reasons I've just given. Because it may well cause profound paranoia and even long-term psychosis and even hallucinations. Which may even be suppressed for years before they slowly or even suddenly manifest themselves. And it all starts in the alimentary canal of the small and large intestines etc, where about 95% of the neurotransmitter Serotonin is produced. And without this critical neurotransmitter being in balance hallucinations and the illnesses I mentioned above are far more likely to accrue. Even if they take years to appear.
the shroomy visual effect you get when you close your eyes are called imaginations, you should learn to enjoy thems
I don't think we are talking about the same thing. I'm talking about natural, harmless CEVs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination Flashbacks are real for sure. The OP might have developed HPPD. OP, I recommend you learn about HPPD, and joing the HPPD support forum to ask questions. There are a lot of people who have experienced similar things to you. And even if you have HPPD, it is NOT psychosis. Psychedelic induced psychosis is possible. Here is an example of psychedelic induced psychosis. http://vimeo.com/15959433 (basically he was completely normal, used LSD, had a typical dandy trip, and a few days later he thought he was a prophet) The example above is not a flashback. Flashbacks are more related to HPPD. http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/adsarchive/lsdflashbacks.htm
Just meditate on it. Push it out of your subconscious. And anyway, mushrooms couldn't have given you psychosis. That's just your subconscious rehashing shit.
Exactly. Further, psychosis is something totally different. There are disorders that involve ongoing hallucinations, but many people who have never taken any drugs and have no mental issues have vivid closed eye visuals, many even have things like sysisthesia, with no hint of "psychosis". There's lots of reasons that you could be having the problems you complaign of (other than the totally normal visual phenomena), but probably just stress. I can't see why you'd blame a psychedelic experience from 3 decades ago all of a sudden now, you seem to be trying to scapegoat mushrooms. If anything, you seem to need another (properly orchestraited and conducted) psychedelic experience.
I think flashbacks are PTSD, though they can obviously be positive in nature, and it brings on HPPD for the duration of the flashback. That sort of psychosis is very very very rare, and can probably usually be attributed to an underlieing undiagnosed disorder that had lain dorment. It seems that it can also happen, especially in concert with such a disorder, in people who have an improper mindset for the experience that they are going to have. Those who would try to conquer psychedelic experiences rather than accept them seem particularly at-risk, as do people who don't understand the gravity of the trip-those who think it's JUST a drug and all that are more likely to misunderstand the feelings as THEM being special, as opposed to being on one HELLUVA drug. That said, I have not watched the video yet, but will.
