Hi, (sorry no TL;DR)
I have to share the story of my friend who has some kind of problem. Something in his brain happened 2 weeks ago during his "carry around refrigerators for 2 weeks"-job. A doctor would say he has a manic episode and needs meds. A spiritual person would maybe say he is enlightened (like Bhudda or John Lennon).
Backstory:
He is 29, took LSD for the first and only time almost 6 month ago (100ug, trip went fine). He is some normal dude (student) with couple ticks (washing hands all the time etc.) and generally the calm kind of guy. Thinks a lot, is intelligent and very analytical and high sense of humor. He is also very spontanious (high ability for word plays and freestyle rap). And he was always sceptical (almost hostile) towards that whole spiritual/religios kind of stuff. He jobbed for 2 weeks at a trade fair where he had to carry around heavy stuff. High physical burden. Less sleep, lots strees, some alcohol/weed binges in the evenings. He got told that his uncle died while on the job but he still finished the job and went to the funeral afterwards.
So after the job and funeral of his uncle, he called me asking for a "talk" - he had great news for everybody. I want to keep this short because he talked like 8hours straight at our meeting (with me and 2 other friends) and many things didn't make sense. He felt like he got enlightened. He can think better, faster, etc. He can talk to everybody and can help everybody and knows exactly what to say to ppl to achieve whatever. Could make tons of money, has great plans, etc. Wants to marry his GF, all that "everything will be better now and not only for me, also for you"-blabla. No more hand washing tics, got better skin, better sex, more clarity, sleeps 3h a day and feels rested. He was like a new person.
I mean ... okay, something happened, he got insights, he will change, eat better, fuck better, stop giving fucks what other people think. All good why not.
But: In his view, he can talk and communicate very well with everybody. He can solve social problems and bring people together. Had "good" conversations with his family ("we spoke everything out, it was verbally very loud and brutal but in the end it was good!"). And that he came much closer with his gf (they had problems in the past and decided to "go slow" with the relationship) and wants to merry her.
I talked to his brother the day after and he had a quite different view of his new "social skills". The family conversations weren't good but very destructive. His GF feels frightened and would break up the relationship when he would suprise her with a ring (glad nobody told her yet). But there were also "good" changes, why not. But the perception is way off in regards of relationships. And he has the fear that the can crash really really hard again, once "reality" reaches him again or the fucks up everything with his chatter.
Today he volunteered to see a doc and got commited into a mental hospital because he wants to get checked up. He wants to find out what's going on with him and wants to stay there for a while.
Like I said in the intro, his symptoms are almost 1:1 with Mania but also with "being enlightened". I know many of you will call 100% BS on that spiritual approach and that's ok.
But I would still like to know what you think about this. Can LSD trigger something after 6 months? He was under heavy mental and physical stress on his job, less sleep, etc. Is he sick? Is he ok? What's goin on? What's gonna happen? How should I approach him?
I am a bit spiritual person (but still sceptic) and can kinda "understand" him. I felt a bit like him when I was on LSD. You reach another level of consciousness where you can pick up new ideas and "bring them back" to reality and hopefully still understand what those mean. Some stuff is BS but other ideas can be very worthy and meaningful. You want this and that and change and 1 week later, you still hang around reddit and play videogames all day :D. But his condition appeared without being on LSD and did not go away.
Like ... if he would use this energy smarter and slow down couple gears ... there would be no problem. But he goes kinda fullspeed and I am afraid of some kind of crash.
Thanks for your advice.
Submitted May 09, 2017 at 02:32AM by katentreter http://ift.tt/2pXJ1D5 LSD
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