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Health Effects of Psychedelics on Children/young teen brain/mind

porkstock said:
Birth control directly prevents pregnancy
Psychedelics do not prevent use of other drugs or any of the more dangerous teenage stuff that you mentioned. They can spark change but it take a lot of sober mental work.
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As an 18 year old, I know numerous teenagers who quit nicotine, cannabis, and alcohol specifically because of psychedelics. I have also heard stories from people who have quit cocaine, meth, opioids, etc.

Psychedelic therapy is the single most effective treatment for PTSD, addiction, alcoholism, and other mental illnesses. And studies have been showing this for 50+ years, as I keep saying.
@Mr. Peabody has shared plenty on this in the Psychedelic Medicine subforum.
 
In those cases you could say that LSD “cured” the addictions, it didn’t prevent them. So maybe the metaphor should be the morning after pill?

But I can admit, this is getting pretty deep into semantics and I’m kinda going off topic. I see that your first post mentioned LSD under professional supervision - I agree that would be a more proper setting for dosing kids rather than just having them trip Willy nilly
 
porkstock said:
I see that your first post mentioned LSD under professional supervision - I agree that would be a more proper setting for dosing kids rather than just having them trip
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Yeah, sorry for the confusion. Nobody here is advocating that we hand a 12 year old an eighth of shrooms and tell them to go for a walk in the forest by themselves.

I believe that people ~15-18 should be able to trip with at least nearby emergency supervision from a professional and/or their parents (their choice) if they are deemed by a medical professional to be mature enough to understand the choice that they are making.

We have a member here who recently offered a psychedelic trip to his 17 (I believe) year old daughter who was struggling with severe depression. She decided to trip under his supervision after careful discussion with him. He has said that in the weeks following the trip, her life has been completely changed and she is positive about her future for the first time in years.

These kinds of stories (including my own) are why I believe what I do on this issue.
 
Psychedelics absolutely have an affect on mood. Glowing experiences have left me motivated unusually so for weeks after and difficult one's slightly melancholy for a few days. I took LSD when I was 14 year old child. I think that, in the end, I am glad I experimented with psychedelics at a relatively young age. It gave me an objectivity and mindfulness I wouldn't have had otherwise. I had a troubled adolescence and seem to be better adjusted than my siblings.
However, I had a lot of really self destructive experiences. I would take LSD with no goal and give into manic creativity to a point where it was simply escapism from things like high-school and my physically abusive father.
I also had a friend, who is now diagnosed schizotypal, have multiple violent, naked freakouts in front of me on the same Psychedelics I was taking. I would be lying if I said I don't have PTSD from having to deal with that on three occasions.
It was a mixed bag. I think teens could probably benefit from Psychedlics in a therapeutic setting. It pretty much identical to how some pot smoking in highscool provides a bonding experience for lonely teens while lots of pot can seriously affect acedemic preformance. Enough armchair psychology, just thought I would share my own experience.
 
Oh and for another bit of armchair psychiatry, i think that daily SSRI use is far more likely to change brain development than a few hours of seretonergic agonism.
 
When I was 16 I ate half an eighth of shrooms and I tripped really hard for 3 hours. I had full blown visuals and body trip. I felt anxiety like I was never going to stop tripping. Looking back at it, it was definitely a strong experience but when I was 16 I was disappointed because I was immature and I thought shrooms were supposed to make me see pink elephants and shit, so when I only saw colors, patterns, shapes, shadows things morphing and rippling and everything I thought about I was seeing in my third eye like my imagination became vivid I was a little upset lol. But now after doing shrooms as an adult I realized that my trip back then was actually very intense
 
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