I’ve never understood the attraction of altering your brain chemistry for fun. Sometimes it doesn’t return to “normal” and psychosis is the result. Hard pass.
Hell, I was given ketamine for a medical procedure last March and I’m still processing that experience.
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“Hell, I was given ketamine for a medical procedure last March and I’m still processing that experience.”
I was on the table for a leg rebuilding surgery when the anesthesiologist had a syringe of BRIGHT YELLOW fluid and was ready to inject into the tubing going into my arm...
I asked what it was, ‘Curare’ was the reply.
Boy did I react!
The anesthesiologist said: ‘Oh I see you know what curare is.’
“YES!” was my reply...
He said it was a mild muscle relaxant and that all would be well — also that I would smell onions...
Instructed to count backwards from 10, I said ‘ten, nine, eight - I smell onions...’
Six hours later I woke up to remember the experience.
Yeah, well, the waitress should have taken it back.
I have sat with several people who were having bad trips from LSD or strong MJ. I would ask them if what they are feeling now reminds them of something that felt this way in the past. THey have remembered past experiences when they felt frightened, hurt, or abandoned. I would encourage them to tell me about that time, they would remember more, and after a while their current feeling would begin to make sense based on older feelings and life events. When their senses returned to normal, they were glad to have discovered hidden portion of their history and sometimes connected these early experiences to important parts of their current life.
The important thing I found was to reassure them these feelings would not overwhelm them and answers could be found by exploring the feelings and regaining control over them.