03-30-2015, 06:44 PM
(03-30-2015, 06:21 PM)Minyatur Wrote:(03-30-2015, 06:01 PM)Lighthead Wrote:(03-30-2015, 05:53 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: It's nothing like ayahuasca (or pharmahuasca). Now that was beautiful. But it resulted in schizophrenia.
I'm in the same boat. LSD left me permanently damaged. Pretty much the main risk of hallucinogens; even if they are considered entheogens. Did you go deep into the jungle when you took it? My other question is what was your initial reason for taking it?
How were you damaged? I've done acid and mushrooms and can't find a way they would damage one. Usually even bad trips are insightful toward balancing.
I guess it all boils down to certain people being more genetically at risk. Sometimes, you never really know until you do it. I never really asked my parents about our family history (in terms of mental illness) before I ended up trying it. I would definitely say that I have mental illness in my family, at the very least on one side of my family (I have an uncle on my mom's side who probably had schizophrenia, but he was my mom's half-brother). Do you have mental illness in your family? If not, then that's most likely why. I'm not sure about Gemini Wolf, but the people that I know who have been affected have had a history of mental illness in their family, somewhere down the line. The more closely related they are, the more at risk you are.
I've also seen scientific studies that say that people who tend to have a lot of creative people in their family tend to lean more towards having bipolar and schizophrenia in their family. Families that tend towards having scientists (of some sort) or engineers tend towards having autism. So a person can be functional, be undiagnosed, and yet still have a mental illness. A lot of that stuff is genetic.