You made a good point here! It wasn't my intent to blame the OP for a bad trip, we don't even know the circumstances - I blame the weed, because it's pretty notorious for that, I get the same reactions and it's why I stay away from it. Unfortunately as it's the easiest drug to get hold of, by far.
Think one thing is that dealing with a taper is just more easy to do given that you know about the matter, which might be why people will give advice for that more readily. In drug scene circles you'll find many people saying you need to "just get over" a cold turkey, or to be "a man" etc. and I don't like such behavior at all.
But I see the tendency of some users to put psychedelics on a pedestal. I need to watch out not to do the same with dissociatives, they too can and do have great benefits for some otherwise treatment-resistant conditions but also the potential for severe adverse effects. Psychs are different but have a similar profile. I don't like the generalization of that "some" people will just "get stuck" on e.g. LSD, specially when it comes from the same folks, as some tend to abandon these who experience psychosis. I understand the why, acute psychosis is one of the most heavy conditions to deal with and even trained professionals fail at it far more often than they should. My first (and last, so far) 1cP-LSD trip felt like it might indeed be true that you could kinda 'reverse' psychosis with a second trip in a good set and under the guidance of the right person but it needs the will and insight into it. Thanks god I never lost contact to reality but I experienced symptoms of psychosis like hearing voices from repeated heavy sleep deprivation on dissos.
I tripped with two individuals, the girl I knew a from chatting & phoning but the guy was mostly new to me. They had both good intents but I disliked the energy of the guy, he took over everything, wanted to teach me what the only right way seems to be not only for him but for all because he went through struggle too but you can't compare one fate to the other... It's sad because I had good contact with the girl and she changed much since they are together, more quiet and distant even when she seems to be happy and in love.. it's strange.
I get why psychedelics can lead to these changes, when you experience that you're one with the universe and how bad shit society does, temptation is there to believe that you know better. I too forgot at some points of the trip that we all are still different individual personalities but this doesn't oppose that we are ... I tend to say, different parts of the same big picture because this leaves more space for individualism. Dissociatives are in some ways really complement to psychedelics because I made some of the same experiences on deschloroketamine (maybe the most psychedelic of them) but they don't touch your ego so the knowledge of individualism remains.
unfortunately the same society struggles with their use and the same heavy preconception stuff which makes their use (at least psychedelics) necessary. I'm too young to compare but besides todays tech, the direction of where the world was going during the time when psychs were legal is more appealing to me for sure than what came afterwards.
