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Has my friend developed mental health problems from LSD? [Delusional beliefs] HELP

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Hi, I recently received a message from my friends girlfriend, she is very concerned with my friends behavior recently. I know he has been taking truffles and has also been taking LSD (verified as LSD).

She told me recently that he was going to quit his job to 'spread the light' and just dance in public. She is having a hard time coping with his recent behaviour, and doesn't know what to do as she loves him, but he seems to be completely stuck in this whole 'spread the light' thing, I have noticed him sending messages to groups on facebook such as the 'pleadians' or some shit.

This is one of the messages he has been sending to groups.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear Lightworkers, surface workers and all people of light. My name is I LOVE YOU Time has come, last weeks shown that people of earth are ready for changes that will bring worlds new Era Of Light. Last week was significant for our mission of light. Many beigns has discovered their true nature, they've decided Light is here, Light is now. Many of pale-faces are gone as they knew presence of light is not random. But still many of lowest vibrition beings are here, they will not go untill last day. They will try to pull you in to many emotional games, through your relationships, families, media and random events.But you are strong, light beigns, full of divine love. Stick to your inner self, your stream of light and be always calm when facing dificult events. Time has come, those last weeks we have left will be very memorable and rewarding, We all work with our divine light to chase darkness out of our reality. We dont fight it, we dont clash with it, we dont play any games with it and we have no fear.

All we are is I LOVE YOU, YES I LOVE, I JUST LOVE YOU. This is what most people on the streets need to hear - I LOVE YOU You gather your light friends and spend every day off bringing light in busiest places of your town/city. Make sure place you have choose is right and your inner light lead you there, just go out and go whenever you feel its right. Take your music( Reggae is most effective as its simply music of love and pale-faces cant stand it even if its on your headphones they can hear it) Take any paintings, tshirts anything related with love, truth and high frequency vibrations, take your crystals, take lots of flovers with you. Lovest vibrition plases are, Train stations, amusement centres, casinos, piers, shopping centres etc. While youre spreading love and vibrating by dance, smile, saying I Love You, or whatever you choose, dont be pushy, dont force anyone to join you. We are the messangers, law of universe must be respected by all of us, we are here to bring light and just show our beloved ones the other way of creating our reality. We doing it only by I Love You. While youre working you will see peoples reactions, if someone ask you why youre dancing, let your light speak, let yourself fly and bring divine visdom.

I Love You. You'll see many pale-faces and their people who cant stand your vibrition, they will stand back and will try you to feel scared and they will use all their abilities to bring you down. Once again - they have no abilities to get in to your light as light of Father is here. Best way dealing with them is smiling and simply I Love You. When you close encounter pale-face let father god speak, Time has come and all negative beigns have to leave our planet as I Command them to do so. Time of light is now. Father is here to finish this era of violence. With all my love i command you to go! While you speak use only ur light voice, they can hear you, and they will respect my will as nothing have power over light of love. By the law universe it is done! Use FB to gather around your area, i will establish my own I Love You webpage ASAP. I will be steraming in Brighton UK tomorrow, please join me or just join my light and spread love anywhere you live. Contact me if any questions. I Love You.
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I am quite concerned and do not know what to do, I have told his girlfreind to hide his acid so he can't take anymore, but I don't even know if that is going to help anything as it seems he is so immersed into this belief system he has completely integrated into his life!

Is it a mental health issue? Is it just a temporary delusional state? or is it just like any other cult/religion, where he just believes in this sort of thing genuinely and its nothing to worry about?!
 
I understand your concern about your friend. I would be concerned too, just like any other normal person.
I just want you to understand now, that I, myself am a person that personally watched there older brother slowly, drive himself to insanity as a result of doing all type of trip-type drugs LSD being one of the more frequent ones.

When I say he drove himself to insanity, I mean like its a proven fact, like he is now diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is in a phsyc ward as I am typing this message.
Now I am no expert or anything but I have watched my brother (who I was living in the same room with for Christ sake) drive himself insane, and I did pick up on his change of behavior, which slowly started to change overtime btw long before he was diagnosed. I have just a few questions now. Did your friend type that message when he was sober? Is he frequently acting out this was regardless of the state of mind he is in (sober/tripping)?
I don't know and can't tell you if other people actually believe this whole "spread the light" situation but regardless, if you are seeing a big difference in your Friends attitude and he has never acted like this before, and is acting like this when he is sober, he is most likely very sick, and you should be worried. I'm not trying to scare you but I'm just saying that from my own experiences. He seems pretty patinate, judging by the way he was, and wrote that whole spread the light business and I would have him admitted to a hospital for a phsyc evaluation. You will have a better idea of what's going on with him and in what ways he could be sick if you do that.
Be careful though because even the first time my brother went into the hospital , he was released 12 hours later and then the police and a social worker had to come to my house the next day to re evaluate him and then tell him that he HAS to be admitted and he has no choice and the police were just there to make sure he makes it there okay, but they will use force if he has any objections.

Good luck to you and your friend. I hope he is okay but it sounds to me like he is sick honestly and hopefully, if that's the case he gets the help and meds that he needs because you will see a big improvement if he ends up needing meds and they're able to give them to him. Just saying though if that's the case it sometimes take a long time to administer the right combo of meds to a person that's sick like that. It took a few months for them to get my bro on the right meds, and he was released and had to go back a few times before they worked everything out for him. He just ended up going back because he always stops taking the meds (and they improve his attitude and everything like 150% he is a lot different when he takes them compared to when he's not on them and can be dangerous when he stops taking them).

But anyways. Get your friend looked at. Idk how old he is but talk to his mom if you have to that's what my brothers friend did for him.

Best of luck, T
 
Sorry about your friend, I can imagine that would be quite disconcerting.

The hippy-dippy new age type stuff can kinda border on schizotypy sometimes, though hyper religiosity is certainly not unique to that group, far from it in fact. It can be a symptom of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia spectrum disorders. So it might not be a bad idea to try & get him to see someone. Though it's also possible he's just a rather eccentric guy. The main difference between being eccentric & institutionalized is being able to meet your day to day financial & familial obligations. You can be pretty much as weird as you wanna be as longas you pay your bills, stay outta trouble with the police, & don't scare the bejeesus outta your family. That being said, probably don't want him to quit his job to go do harry krishna type stuff in the train station.

It's also possible this may just be a stage he's going through. People generally dabble in a number of belief systems throughout their life so it may well not be permanent.

Hope that helps!
 
It sounds like it might be a good idea for him to have an evaluation by a doctor, preferably a psychiatric specialist. Major changes in personality can be a sign of something very wrong. And if he's taking an unsafe/unhealthy amount of drugs, some intervention may be needed to get him to stop or at minimum to make sure there is no major physical damage to any of his body. That being said, sometimes people just change, and it's certainly not unheard of for people to have life-changing experiences on psychedelic drugs. It could be that he has really changed who he is and wants to embark on a new path in life. As any major dude said, some people are kinda weird, but if they're taking care of themselves, then it's their prerogative to be as weird as they want. As hard as that might be on his friends and loved ones, it doesn't mean he's necessarily ill.
 
I 100% relate to the the thoughts and ideas your friend is having, although I wouldn't exactly describe it in the same words.

It's just a realization of our own mortality, of being a part of something bigger than our own finite physical existence, and it's a big part of the psychedelic experience for many people.

It's not necessarily "insane" to believe what he believes, it's actually very common. It's the basis for a lot of the worlds religions. But, I believe that if you go too far into that kind of thinking, and lose touch with the "normal", mundane aspects of life, you can go insane. There has to be balance. You can't become obsessed or preachy. It really does nothing.

I've been involves with Zen Bhuddist groups that believe a lot of what your friend seems to believe, but don't necessarily believe in renouncing the normal world for your spiritual beliefs. My favorite saying I heard was, " A day without work is a day without eating"...Everyone needs to eat. Everyone needs to work, and everyone needs to stay aware and involved with the everyday life going on around them.

Stopping using psychedelics of any kind is probably a very good idea at this point, but I wouldn't start labelling him as "crazy" quite yet either.

The idea that when anyone starts talking about "energy" and "spirits" and "light" and stuff like that, that they're "crazy" annoys me to no end. Just because you haven't experienced it, doesn't mean it's nor there. Read a little about Hinduism and Buddhism, these kind of beliefs have existed for as long as we know humans have existed, and it's not "crazy"...but higher consciousness and psychedelics are no joke, and can have a very bad effect on your life if you push it too far and lose awareness of what's " actually" going on in front of you...
 
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at least if he's going crazy he's going a happy, 'spread the love' crazy, and not a 'I'm going to stitch your eyes closed with your fingernails' crazy
 
^ Is it? In his own way, maybe OP's friend has beat biology, and he's just happy now. No longer driven to the rat race by meager goals and cultural law.

He's doing what Timothy Leary implored an entire generation to do.

His sanity hasn't changed, but his values and priorities have. Sounds like he needs to dump that bitch and travel the world.
 
Look, I'm not about to drop out of society either, but it's not for everyone.
 
I think the question was answered in the OP. I've seen a few friends do the same damn thing, but they weren't all there to begin with.
 
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^ Is it? In his own way, maybe OP's friend has beat biology, and he's just happy now. No longer driven to the rat race by meager goals and cultural law.

He's doing what Timothy Leary implored an entire generation to do.

His sanity hasn't changed, but his values and priorities have. Sounds like he needs to dump that bitch and travel the world.
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^ This. I can sort of relate to what the OP's friend is going through. Its kind of an existential crisis to an extent. there are some people in this world that many would deem crazy, but they happen to be some extremely intelligent people. There does indeed need to be a balance, but the idea of removing one's self from the norm of western civilization to something more primitive may be quite spectacular to some people.
OP, i think your buddy will be fine, maybe he's just in a really weird place. Mention it to him maybe, in a really understanding, calm way. Unless he is predisposed to schizophrenia, i dont believe LSD will give someone it. Psychosis, sure. That in its self can be quite traumatic to the psyche and de-rail someone. Just give it time, and it wouldn't hurt for him to talk to someone. if he gets way worse then its probably no good. If he makes it out okay, i think the whole thing can be pretty enlightening.
best of wishes.
 
I believe that maybe the lsd triggered an underlying psychosis in your friend. I had a friend that was fine, then we took some lsd and ever since then he thinks he is john the baptist. He is now in a psych ward and from what the drs have told me, the lsd must have triggered an underlying mental problem which became obviously apparent. also as one of the first replies asked, was your friend sober or tripping when he wrote this message? that answer alone could probably tell you if he has really lost it, or if hes just trippin nuts
 
He actually sounds a lot like a professional spiritual worker. I can't say how sane he is, but there are many who have been respected and successful speakers and authors who talk like that, and don't otherwise have any problems relating to the normal world.

The way he's going on reminds me of a clairvoyance I once got where I was told "It's time for you to WAKE UP and do your Lightwork on Earth. To first spread it out to your whole city. Then your whole country. Then the whole world".

Everything else she said was fine, but I just didn't feel ready or capable of something like that (and still don't). But she was a woman in her 50s who had devoted the rest of her life to that kind of thing, while I was just starting out my life and wanted to do normal things. They need to understand that not everyone can accept this kind of thing. Especially if they're young, as most of us come into the world to explore it materially at first.
 
Not a bad belief system as far as crazy goes he sounds like a cool interesting guy. Not knowing him personally it is hard to tell exactly how drastic of a personality change this is for him. After long binges on LSD i myself have had crazy obsessions and beliefs lasting quite a while, but in time have always seemed to level out and remain a productive member of society though given another option I would rather not
 
I think it's important that to note, as others have done, that it's easy to make value judgements on people that are taking a different road and end up radically altering their worldview to join something that seems for all intents and purposes a cult. What I would say OP is that when it comes down to it, your friend may have flight of ideas, magical thinking, even delusions however quality of life and autonomy are paramount. Where it gets hairy are the acoustic hallucinations and negative symptoms of a full blown psychosis, at this point they may stop to look after their bodily needs, even end up in a catatonic state and if what he is going through is headed this way perhaps some guidance towards psychiatric intervention may be a good idea...
 
I would like some advice on this as well I know what your going through and I'm sorry. My best friend who's also my boyfriend recently did two tabs of acid. He hasn't been the same since i was hoping it was just the afyerglow but it seems thats ruled out of the question since it been almost 5 days. Its almost as if I've lost him its really a terrible feeling. I'm trying to be there as best as I can but seeing who he is now and what he was before just hurts me so much . I'm on vacation and away from home. Me and him are almost unhealthily attached so me being gone for a while was hard on both of us. We do drugs together recreationally neither of us are addicts . In his past he had problems with dxm (dextrmethorphan) and had to go to the mental hospital. We had once took shrooms together and he didnt trip well and destroyed his moms house I know that seems irrelevent but I figured some insight would be good. He had recently gotten a bag of strong k2 and smoked the chemical powder on the bottom and a few days afterward bought products containing dxm maybetwo bottles of waltussen I believe it was. That same day a friend of ours gave him two tabs of lsd. The next day he redosed with some of the tab mush left in the bag from his mouth that he saved. He hadn't been talking to me that much around this time but later he told me a lot of religious related things about him being the messiah and a lot of other things. Today is about 4 days after that he confronted his friend about it and this friend is extremely stupid and now he's convinced this friend is god and the friend is playing along with it. Even my boyfriend before this would agree that this kid is really uneducated but now he belives he's god. He was obsessing over the number three and making oddly specific instructions such as me not reading a catcher in the rye before he turns 22 . He believes obamas the antichrist because his stupid friend said so . He thinks he's the reincarnation of astrodomus and his theory always changes . I am still on vacation but coming home in two days and will see him for the first time in person aince he's changed. I talked to him and he still loves me and cares and so on but hes not the same person . I apologize for it being so lengthy but this is so traumatic for me as naive as that sounds. I have undifferentiated schizophrenia and my bf has beentmy only support and now I feel like I've lost him. If someone could email me or something please that'd be great I feel extremely alone and confused as to what to do. I really love this person he's an amazing guy but I don't think jes fully there anymore. I appriciate anyone taking time to read this and I give my best reguards to those in a similar situation.
 
^The only thing you can really do is encourage him to see a doctor. He's done what sounds like a somewhat unreasonable amount of drugs in a short time given a history where he's been in a mental hospital as the result of drugs before. Drugs can be very powerful for people with psychiatric issues, in both good and bad ways, and if he is having problems, he's going to need professional help.
 
The problem with happy crazy is it WILL turn to bat shit psychotic angry and paranoid crazy. If there is love there is hate and LSD and other psychedelics only work so long on the mind before doubt starts to seep in. Humans need to have a balance of darkness and light, good and bad, whatever. There is no person who is always happy... (or only love, or pure light). My suggestion would be to watch the kid closely and wait for the good to go wrong.... If he chooses to quit his job just wait a few weeks to see what he resorts to. Perhaps things will all work out in his new modality of thought (which in all reality would be pretty wondrous) but I would imagine it will be a short time before he looks back at his spread love every fantasy as just a passing phase.... like most things in the psychedelic realm... and life in general.
 
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