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HPPD making your brain slow?

TheFireDragon

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Yo so I fried by brain over 4 years ago and got HPPD, feels like ive suffered from brain damage but been diagnosed with HPPD unofficially (Sent EEG to HPPD scientists and appereantly they can see if u have it)

Yeah anyways so I have a bunch of problems one of them being that I feel really slow in the head, Like theres parts of the brain that just feels like its workin super slow and dead/braindead basically.

Wonder if HPPD can cause this and if som1 has similar experiences?

Am I just born this way and fryin my brain just made me realize it or is it cause I fried it n got HPPD?
 
What symptoms do you have and what drug caused it?

I wasnt aware there was even a way to diagnose HPPD with a testing and thought it was just based on symptoms+exclusion.
 
I asked a very simple question, Can HPPD make your brain slow?

Why wud I bother writing down all the symptoms, Give me one good reason and maybe ill do it. O yeah im totally a attention whore and love attention <3
 
Persistent visual distortions could be distracting causing a feeling of slowness.
 
Can you elaborate on how they tested for this? To my knowledge, there are no tests for HPPD and literature seems to confirm this. The diagnosis is made by testing for everything else, diagnosing HPPD when all other tests come back negative. I could be wrong in which case it'd be nice to have some insight into how they diagnose this with an EEG

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Ah, I seem to have found an article that explains HPPD can be determined through a brain scan. Interesting
Research Paper
Erowid Article
 
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I also fried my brain about 4 years ago ?. I have the super slow brain now as well. It just takes longer to process things and Im not as quick thinking as I used to be. Basic actions / conversations now take much more mental effort and I am continuously mentally (and physically) shattered. I also have hppd, well at least visual snow, sensitivity to light and tracking moving objects is more difficult and a bit blurry. I dont think the hppd causes the 'slow brain' but they are definitely symptoms of the brain damage I sustained. As terrible as they are the constant anhedonia and 'loss of self' are the real killers for me.
 
I asked a very simple question, Can HPPD make your brain slow?

Why wud I bother writing down all the symptoms, Give me one good reason and maybe ill do it. O yeah im totally a attention whore and love attention <3

The reason I asked symptoms was cause I was wondering if you had only HPPD visual stuff or if you also had other symptoms like anxiety, depression, or depersonalization which depending on severity could also make you feel 'slow'. Idk if HPPD alone without those can.
 
My brother currently is suffering from HPPD and has the brain fog along with constant mild LSD type visuals and visual snow. He got it from only smoking weed (and yes I'm positive it was weed, it was an ounce that I smoked throhgh entierely and all he had was a backhit from me off a gravity). He just seems to be super sensitivite. It's now been almost three months that he has had symptoms.
 
The OP is still doing lots of drugs including MDMA and weed, so that may have something to do with it.
 
My brother currently is suffering from HPPD and has the brain fog along with constant mild LSD type visuals and visual snow. He got it from only smoking weed (and yes I'm positive it was weed, it was an ounce that I smoked throhgh entierely and all he had was a backhit from me off a gravity). He just seems to be super sensitivite. It's now been almost three months that he has had symptoms.
Someone very close to me had the same symptoms from weed (an edible). She had a 'bad trip' and suffered anxiety, visual distortions, visual snow, slow-motion,... for months on end, almost a year. However in her case it wasn't HPPD but anxiety and derealisation that caused this. Not saying HPPD is impossible from weed, but there are other possibilities as well. It's insane the physical symptoms your body can produce when it is in psychological distress. Specialised therapy cleared up her symptoms in a matter of weeks, she only has some trace symptoms left
 
Someone very close to me had the same symptoms from weed (an edible). She had a 'bad trip' and suffered anxiety, visual distortions, visual snow, slow-motion,... for months on end, almost a year. However in her case it wasn't HPPD but anxiety and derealisation that caused this. Not saying HPPD is impossible from weed, but there are other possibilities as well. It's insane the physical symptoms your body can produce when it is in psychological distress. Specialised therapy cleared up her symptoms in a matter of weeks, she only has some trace symptoms left

A matter of weeks after starting therapy? That seems like an incredibly fast recovery. Sounds like she or her therapist was some kind of therapy god lol
 
1,5 month to be precise. As soon as she realized her own mind was causing this and really started believing this, something clicked in her mind and the physical symptoms all but went away in weeks. She still has anxiety though and is still in therapy for it, but this is slowly going away as well
 
I've had a couple experiences with weed where it was horrible. On time in college I made weed tea using a whole 8th between 2 people. Didn't feel anything that night, then the next morning I woke up fucked! My vision was blurry as shit, I could barely stand, I puked in the hallway in my dorm, and passed out in the bathroom for like an hour. The day after that I was feeling a lot better, but it took a week or so before I was back to normal.

Had a similar experience from a weed starburst about a month before the LTC...woke up in the middle of the night shaking and sweating in an anxiety attack....went back to bed though and was fine the next day.

Point is, weed can be a lot more powerful than people think.
 
Someone very close to me had the same symptoms from weed (an edible). She had a 'bad trip' and suffered anxiety, visual distortions, visual snow, slow-motion,... for months on end, almost a year. However in her case it wasn't HPPD but anxiety and derealisation that caused this. Not saying HPPD is impossible from weed, but there are other possibilities as well. It's insane the physical symptoms your body can produce when it is in psychological distress. Specialised therapy cleared up her symptoms in a matter of weeks, she only has some trace symptoms left

Thanks for the info Bluebull, much appreciated. You are partially right from what I've gathered as I have been making educated guesses myself. The first symptoms were in fact extreme derealisation which aided in creating a lot of anxiety which then worsened the condition.

At this point, the derealisation has subsided for him but the anxiety is still there to a lesser extent (likely partially induced by the continuing symptoms). He is undergoing a number of different things to try and resolve it. Would you be able to PM me and tell me about the therapy that resolved the issues for your friend?

What's interesting is that he always had symptoms of visual snow when he smoked and never mentioned it because he thought it was normal but they always subsided when the drug was out of his system. Since then, I have personally been able to replicate his symptoms and create visual snow for myself when under the influence of marijuana and it will increase in severity when I focus on it (and therefore have heightened anxiety from it) and lessen in severity when I am able to relax.

Really weird and really interesting. At this point just hoping to get him back to normal as he is boarder line genius on the intelligence scale and just normally a very bright/gifted individual.
 
I've had a couple experiences with weed where it was horrible. On time in college I made weed tea using a whole 8th between 2 people. Didn't feel anything that night, then the next morning I woke up fucked! My vision was blurry as shit, I could barely stand, I puked in the hallway in my dorm, and passed out in the bathroom for like an hour. The day after that I was feeling a lot better, but it took a week or so before I was back to normal.

Had a similar experience from a weed starburst about a month before the LTC...woke up in the middle of the night shaking and sweating in an anxiety attack....went back to bed though and was fine the next day.

Point is, weed can be a lot more powerful than people think.

Definitely true. I think normally it's a pretty begging substance but I think all the selective breeding we are doing, especially breeding out CBD, is going to have some not so great unintended consequences in the future.
 
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