Hi everyone. I know it took Nic a lot of courage to come on here and share his story. I've looked all over the internet for someone like him. He truly is an inspiring human being. If you have the link to this video early, feel free to pass it onto others who may benefit. You can also start leaving likes and comments before its official UA-cam release to let us know you're there =)
Took shrooms and had my first bad trip to where I thought I was dead. A week later I started hearing voices. It was hell giving me terrible paranoia. I was on the brink of insanity until I realized what the causes were. A month later I have had everything pretty much under control for the most part. Its helped me try to get my life together
@@johndoeredfeather9600 That’s not accurate. Studies have been done and there’s no link between psychedelic use and psychosis. The results have been published in Nature if you care to have a look.
Great content, thanks. I live with bipolar and psychosis, unmedicated for the last 28 years. It took me 25 years to learn that smoking weed was not good for me. I had to go through this countless times to learn this lesson. I'm not saying that it's easy as I do still experience psychosis and anything that gets me excited can be a trigger, such as falling in love or finding a new money-making scheme etc... The most important things for me is sleep, routine and having a small group of trusted friends around me who can see if I'm going high. I now work part-time as a peer worker, helping people rebuild their lives after experiencing psychosis.
"should i take a psychedelic?" imagine yourself as a being that has never been born. you have no idea what human life is. you have never met anyone who has ever been in human form. the only thing you know is this "pre-form" existence. you have heard of this thing called "life" but you can only try to imagine what it is, to no avail, since living a human life is something that to you at this moment, is little more than a word. a lot like the word "heaven" or "hell" is to you now. the best you can do is to speculate on what it might be like to experience that existence... knowing full well that whatever it is that you imagine is probably not at all what this "life" thing will be, since of course you have never experienced anything remotely like it. An angel asks you if you'd like to experience "life on Earth". Is it safe?
this is an awesome vid. super natural how he talks about this stuff. my brother has bipolar and struggles with it a lot. really cool to see someone like this talk about how he pushed through and how he keeps his illness in check. he is so honest with himself, super refreshing
This had explained my recent experience with a drug-induced psychosis caused by a mixture of weed on a comedown of magic mushrooms. I had extremely vivid, real images of demonic beings and satanic rituals, etc... I recall seeing block lettering spelling out send help everywhere, my vision became animated and cartoon-like, similar to that of an extremely high acid dose, with strange gothic, medieval graphics appearing in my vision as if they were just crystal clear images and videos placed over what I was seeing, and it was all very real. Although Nic and my experiences varied in the style and appearance of our different hallucinations, I'd just like to thank him for sharing his experiences with drug-induced psychosis, as it provided me with much more clarity over my experiences that medical services just could not provide. Such an amazing insightful story and interview... Thank you.
I loved this interview. I really appreciated how he talked about the psychosis but he didn’t go into the stories & glorify them but really focused on staying positive & that healing can happen. I really, really got so much out of it & I’m so grateful to have come across this. Thank you & namaste 🙏❤️
23:06 sounds like catatonia. I had catatonic depression at one point. It physically and mentally hurts to move and it's almost as if your brain is motivated not to move or you will experience something horrible... It's such a strange experience
It's nice to hear this. I have dealt with similar. although their medicines, I think helped me through the toughest time, once that was over with, those medicines just seemed to be stealing my emotions from me. I ended up not caring about creating music and playing my guitar, which before their meds was my passion. as far as standard western medicine goes, psychology seems to be helping me the most. outside of that I find that meditation is very helpful as well. I like meditation and exercise the most because they are things that i can do on my own. mindfulness. paying attention to my mind and what is going on in there, and paying attention and taking notes on what might be triggering any specific emotion or feeling. the more I understand myself, the more control I have over my mind. And of course, i have to stay away from most every drug that i used to abuse. Since i tend to stay alone for long periods of time i have to make it a point to visit friends and family. if i make sure that no more than a few weeks goes by without a visit with my family my mind seems to stay fairly sociable.
I can relate to what he said about learning to control the feelings rather than keeping going into it. The difference with me is that I had bipolar with mostly mixed states. I would be full of energy, mind racing, couldn't sleep but all I could think about was dark things, suicide, death, everything wrong with my life and having no motivation. It was torture, so I was happy to get rid of it. I get kind of jealouse when I hear about the ecstatic highs they had with bipolar. Weird thing really.
I hear you. The curse of the ecstatic high "type" is that you never want to "get better" and it leads to longer and more destructive recoveries with higher risk of relapses etc.
Thank you for sharing your story Nic! It takes more people as generous as you are with your story to help shift perspectives and gain deeper understanding 😊. I appreciate your courage & strength.
That's what we're all about! 😊 The medication and the doctors are always there but we want to show as many alternative pathways as possible. We're doing a mini kinesiology documentary shortly. New methods of healing, more options! 💕
Your content is exactly what im looking for but always thought youve got to take those "details" out of some other main topics. You are really nailing it!! Also i wanna know more about yourself;)
I know exactly what you mean about finding bits and pieces of the details you're really looking for ;) I have a video journal of my personal journey: ua-cam.com/channels/z_C_DXCc46pSmdvXsyKKMQ.html
This is the education kids should have as teens. Don't spill chemicals on your hard drive. This is the MOST terrifying results of trying to fix emotional problems with drugs, the more intelligent and creative the brain, the worse it is and what it could come up with. This is the reality of mind altering substances, it should be shared. but it's worse than horror for me to watch, I can't watch the whole thing. 😰😰😰
Thank you for sharing I passed trought the same kind of experience with marihuana induced psychosis I got diagnosed as bipolar but as Nic says they should be more careful when labeling mental illness because once I stoped smoking and I quite those mood stabilizers everything got under control. Some times I wonder if I should take other drugs as I´m more of a materialistic scientist person and wonder about experiencing that spiritual sensation that you get from this as he describes it this god-like power sensation. And there are many things that intrigue me about bringing back that state of consciousness. I quit weed about a year ago and it really got to me that when he talks about celebrating one year with drugs as a reward and then needing to get back to rehab, is something that I don´t particularly would like to go trought again, so it comes as a warning as well as a reminder. Thank you for sharing, best wishes.
Have you had psychosis several times? Are you still smoking weed? I went psychotic 20 years ago and haven't smoked since , but due to insomnia I'm thinking of smoking weed again, but I'm terrified I would get psychotic again
I experimented with shrooms and had a good experience for the most part then one day I drank beer and smoked some weed while tripping just off a gram of shrooms and immediately out of nowhere with my friends started dramatically panicking and absolutely tripping balls it was the most terrorizing experience of my life I had no control of my mindset or what I could think I thought I was dying for about 3 hours that night, for 4 weeks I experienced anxiety or psychosis constantly crying to myself saying I just want to be back normal and I would never do any drug ever again. It’s now been 5 weeks and I’m back in my normal mindset not even wanting to look at a drug. PLEASE DONT DO SHROOMS (maybe if your in a life crisis) the bigger picture is your perfect as you are.
This is such a wholesome interview. I relate to you in the sense that I've been through drug induced psychosis (mania) as well and hospitalized for 3 months. I had side effects of tardive dyskenia which is the parkinson's-like random twitching or paralysis sometimes due to antipsychotics which I eventually weaned off of. The interviewee seems so sweet and cool. I wish him a good and maintained recovery.
Most drug induced psychosis I have had are through the use of dph. While the visuals can be scary the voices, lack of memory and confusion is defiantly the worst imo. You just fall in and out of it.
This was really nice to watch. Something I will say is that acid and DMT are what triggered my psychosis.. definitely would not recommend and yes, I was in a “positive” setting. People’s bodies and minds just react differently unfortunately..
If i choose to imagine or i do imagine flying pigs over battersea power station i am just imagining like clouds that float by Thoughts come and thoughts go...all just experience No harm done to me or others Peace
I have psychosis that flairs up on weed /high stress.ive been curious about microdosing psilocybin to improve my functionality. But people say its too dangerous. Ive never been able to work full time for a long time
Read Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stan Grof. Most of his patients had complex disorders including schizophrenia and he treated them with psychedelics. Of course that doesn't mean it's safe but it might lead you to some more empowering research to make an informed decision.
Have you had psychosis several times? Are you still smoking weed? I went psychotic 20 years ago and haven't smoked since , but due to insomnia I'm thinking of smoking weed again, but I'm terrified I would get psychotic again
May I ask how long the hallucinations lasted from the psychotic episode? Just asking out of personal curiosity I've been a hard drug user for 12 years 5 years ago was diagnosed schizoaffective and the hallucinations have persisted consistently however they are much more real vivid and strong when I stop the meds which unfortunately I have resigned myself to the fact that I need to take them sitting in a half way house right now got 8 months clean. Dont really wanna say more because I'd be at risk of sounding a bit out of it.
@@KyLives kk I will thank u definitely looking more into what I'm capable of doing for myself to heal and improve on top of what medical treatment I receiving so far it feels like only some of it's a medical issue a lot of the deciding factors in whether someone gets better from what I've seen is up to the individual and how bad they want to improve.
From what I've seen the desire to make a change is the most important thing because you will be willing to go through the many possibilities before you find success. Don't give up my friend.
Have you had psychosis several times? Are you still smoking weed? I went psychotic 20 years ago and haven't smoked since , but due to insomnia I'm thinking of smoking weed again, but I'm terrified I would get psychotic again, thanks for your help
Weed is the most frequent culprit for triggering onset. If you know it's your trigger I'd avoid it. There are better ways to fix your sleeping patterns. Send me a message on socials and I'll try to get you in touch with someone in your area.
Hi everyone. I know it took Nic a lot of courage to come on here and share his story. I've looked all over the internet for someone like him. He truly is an inspiring human being. If you have the link to this video early, feel free to pass it onto others who may benefit. You can also start leaving likes and comments before its official UA-cam release to let us know you're there =)
Love to see other people recovering from a drug induced psychosis without medication 🙏🏻 my recovery was 3x quicker than the psychiatrist suggested
Love the big lez top😂
Took shrooms and had my first bad trip to where I thought I was dead. A week later I started hearing voices. It was hell giving me terrible paranoia. I was on the brink of insanity until I realized what the causes were. A month later I have had everything pretty much under control for the most part. Its helped me try to get my life together
Glad you're okay. You should look into Holographic Kinetics if the voices won't leave you alone. One session will sort it out in most cases.
@@johndoeredfeather9600 That’s not accurate. Studies have been done and there’s no link between psychedelic use and psychosis. The results have been published in Nature if you care to have a look.
Hey I’m going through that right now please please help me help me
i’m having a similar experience, hearing yours made me hopeful
@@-Kal- disagree. This happened to my son. Very scary. Took almost year to see him in full recovery no medication
Great content, thanks. I live with bipolar and psychosis, unmedicated for the last 28 years. It took me 25 years to learn that smoking weed was not good for me. I had to go through this countless times to learn this lesson. I'm not saying that it's easy as I do still experience psychosis and anything that gets me excited can be a trigger, such as falling in love or finding a new money-making scheme etc...
The most important things for me is sleep, routine and having a small group of trusted friends around me who can see if I'm going high.
I now work part-time as a peer worker, helping people rebuild their lives after experiencing psychosis.
That's awesome. Using your lived experience to help others.
"should i take a psychedelic?"
imagine yourself as a being that has never been born. you have no idea what human life is. you have never met anyone who has ever been in human form. the only thing you know is this "pre-form" existence. you have heard of this thing called "life" but you can only try to imagine what it is, to no avail, since living a human life is something that to you at this moment, is little more than a word. a lot like the word "heaven" or "hell" is to you now. the best you can do is to speculate on what it might be like to experience that existence... knowing full well that whatever it is that you imagine is probably not at all what this "life" thing will be, since of course you have never experienced anything remotely like it.
An angel asks you if you'd like to experience "life on Earth". Is it safe?
Wow dude, that's deep
Wow
Haha. Yeah it can rattle your perspective and worldview and make you question the meaning of life and natural phenomena.
this is an awesome vid. super natural how he talks about this stuff. my brother has bipolar and struggles with it a lot. really cool to see someone like this talk about how he pushed through and how he keeps his illness in check. he is so honest with himself, super refreshing
Aw man, I was so happy when he reached out because he is such a straight up, authentic dude. Glad everyone else is vibing with him too!
This had explained my recent experience with a drug-induced psychosis caused by a mixture of weed on a comedown of magic mushrooms. I had extremely vivid, real images of demonic beings and satanic rituals, etc... I recall seeing block lettering spelling out send help everywhere, my vision became animated and cartoon-like, similar to that of an extremely high acid dose, with strange gothic, medieval graphics appearing in my vision as if they were just crystal clear images and videos placed over what I was seeing, and it was all very real. Although Nic and my experiences varied in the style and appearance of our different hallucinations, I'd just like to thank him for sharing his experiences with drug-induced psychosis, as it provided me with much more clarity over my experiences that medical services just could not provide. Such an amazing insightful story and interview... Thank you.
Glad you found this discussion
I loved this interview. I really appreciated how he talked about the psychosis but he didn’t go into the stories & glorify them but really focused on staying positive & that healing can happen. I really, really got so much out of it & I’m so grateful to have come across this. Thank you & namaste 🙏❤️
Thank you. I'm so stoked Nic has inspired so many people!
This was a great video I often worry about what I’ve done to my brain though smoking heaps of weed and drinking like crazy so this was a good watch
I'm glad it helped you mate =)
23:06 sounds like catatonia. I had catatonic depression at one point. It physically and mentally hurts to move and it's almost as if your brain is motivated not to move or you will experience something horrible... It's such a strange experience
Love you're hair man,wild n free
Cheers brother! =D
It's nice to hear this. I have dealt with similar. although their medicines, I think helped me through the toughest time, once that was over with, those medicines just seemed to be stealing my emotions from me. I ended up not caring about creating music and playing my guitar, which before their meds was my passion. as far as standard western medicine goes, psychology seems to be helping me the most. outside of that I find that meditation is very helpful as well. I like meditation and exercise the most because they are things that i can do on my own. mindfulness. paying attention to my mind and what is going on in there, and paying attention and taking notes on what might be triggering any specific emotion or feeling. the more I understand myself, the more control I have over my mind. And of course, i have to stay away from most every drug that i used to abuse. Since i tend to stay alone for long periods of time i have to make it a point to visit friends and family. if i make sure that no more than a few weeks goes by without a visit with my family my mind seems to stay fairly sociable.
Thank you so much for sharing a bit of your story here as well brother! Awesome insights here for anyone on a similar journey.
@@KyLives no doubt, we're not alone
Not alone at all
I can relate to what he said about learning to control the feelings rather than keeping going into it. The difference with me is that I had bipolar with mostly mixed states. I would be full of energy, mind racing, couldn't sleep but all I could think about was dark things, suicide, death, everything wrong with my life and having no motivation. It was torture, so I was happy to get rid of it. I get kind of jealouse when I hear about the ecstatic highs they had with bipolar. Weird thing really.
I hear you. The curse of the ecstatic high "type" is that you never want to "get better" and it leads to longer and more destructive recoveries with higher risk of relapses etc.
Thank you for sharing your story Nic! It takes more people as generous as you are with your story to help shift perspectives and gain deeper understanding 😊. I appreciate your courage & strength.
Incredible story Nic
Great video mate. It's always awesome to see people fix themselves naturally, without pharmaceuticals or doctors. Love it! Cheers from Brissy :)
That's what we're all about! 😊 The medication and the doctors are always there but we want to show as many alternative pathways as possible. We're doing a mini kinesiology documentary shortly. New methods of healing, more options! 💕
Great content as per usual. Thanks for the video Ky
Thanks Oliver =)
Thanks for this realization of my pyscosis wasnt a episode at all thanks very much.
Awesome video! Also, Nic is a rad dude. Thanks you guys!
Right? He's a champion. Thanks for watching Stephanie
Wow, I’ve been diagnosed with BP and this is the most useful content I’ve seen !!! Thank you so much.
Really glad we could share this discussion with you
Your content is exactly what im looking for but always thought youve got to take those "details" out of some other main topics.
You are really nailing it!!
Also i wanna know more about yourself;)
I know exactly what you mean about finding bits and pieces of the details you're really looking for ;)
I have a video journal of my personal journey: ua-cam.com/channels/z_C_DXCc46pSmdvXsyKKMQ.html
This is the education kids should have as teens. Don't spill chemicals on your hard drive.
This is the MOST terrifying results of trying to fix emotional problems with drugs, the more intelligent and creative the brain, the worse it is and what it could come up with. This is the reality of mind altering substances, it should be shared. but it's worse than horror for me to watch, I can't watch the whole thing. 😰😰😰
You would probably get a lot out of what CJ shared in the Psychosis & Awakening video: ua-cam.com/video/RHZEax7Ncr4/v-deo.html
I’m two years behind but definitely do another video with Nic !
Thank you for sharing I passed trought the same kind of experience with marihuana induced psychosis I got diagnosed as bipolar but as Nic says they should be more careful when labeling mental illness because once I stoped smoking and I quite those mood stabilizers everything got under control. Some times I wonder if I should take other drugs as I´m more of a materialistic scientist person and wonder about experiencing that spiritual sensation that you get from this as he describes it this god-like power sensation. And there are many things that intrigue me about bringing back that state of consciousness. I quit weed about a year ago and it really got to me that when he talks about celebrating one year with drugs as a reward and then needing to get back to rehab, is something that I don´t particularly would like to go trought again, so it comes as a warning as well as a reminder. Thank you for sharing, best wishes.
Thanks for sharing man. Thanks for being real. Others will relate.
Have you had psychosis several times? Are you still smoking weed? I went psychotic 20 years ago and haven't smoked since , but due to insomnia I'm thinking of smoking weed again, but I'm terrified I would get psychotic again
Going through almost the exact same thing rn. I feel you.
Thanks for the great video KY!
I'm glad you got something out of it =)
Ive had similar experiences..its a crazy experience. My recent one lasted at least 3 months
Thank you Ky for the video :)
No problem buddy. I hope there was something in there that helped bring a little more clarity.
Truly inspirational thank you
Thank you for your support =)
I relate to this a lot thank you for making me feel like I’m not alone
I'm glad you found us
You should do an other interview with him, and I think you should do a podcast with people with mental disorders and talk about there recover
We have interviewed a lot of different people already =)
I experimented with shrooms and had a good experience for the most part then one day I drank beer and smoked some weed while tripping just off a gram of shrooms and immediately out of nowhere with my friends started dramatically panicking and absolutely tripping balls it was the most terrorizing experience of my life I had no control of my mindset or what I could think I thought I was dying for about 3 hours that night, for 4 weeks I experienced anxiety or psychosis constantly crying to myself saying I just want to be back normal and I would never do any drug ever again. It’s now been 5 weeks and I’m back in my normal mindset not even wanting to look at a drug. PLEASE DONT DO SHROOMS (maybe if your in a life crisis) the bigger picture is your perfect as you are.
Sounds like alcohol and weed were the variable that changed.
This is such a wholesome interview. I relate to you in the sense that I've been through drug induced psychosis (mania) as well and hospitalized for 3 months. I had side effects of tardive dyskenia which is the parkinson's-like random twitching or paralysis sometimes due to antipsychotics which I eventually weaned off of. The interviewee seems so sweet and cool. I wish him a good and maintained recovery.
He owns and runs his own tattoo studio now and his art has evolved to an incredible level. I will get him back on for a follow up.
thanks for sharing
No worries buddy =)
Love this!
🦋❤
Most drug induced psychosis I have had are through the use of dph. While the visuals can be scary the voices, lack of memory and confusion is defiantly the worst imo. You just fall in and out of it.
How did you recover?
This was really nice to watch. Something I will say is that acid and DMT are what triggered my psychosis.. definitely would not recommend and yes, I was in a “positive” setting. People’s bodies and minds just react differently unfortunately..
Knowing your triggers is power. I hope you are finding ways to manage your mind, body and spirit that work for you :)
Awesome 👌
Thank you! Cheers!
Which drugs? That information would be helpful. There’s all different types of drugs.
Nic said cannabis and chemical party drugs. Mushrooms and LSD haven't been a problem for him, but everyone is different.
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If i choose to imagine or i do imagine flying pigs over battersea power station i am just imagining like clouds that float by
Thoughts come and thoughts go...all just experience
No harm done to me or others
Peace
I have psychosis that flairs up on weed /high stress.ive been curious about microdosing psilocybin to improve my functionality. But people say its too dangerous.
Ive never been able to work full time for a long time
Read Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stan Grof. Most of his patients had complex disorders including schizophrenia and he treated them with psychedelics. Of course that doesn't mean it's safe but it might lead you to some more empowering research to make an informed decision.
@@KyLives thanks.
I personally think microdosing should be safe.
Have you had psychosis several times? Are you still smoking weed? I went psychotic 20 years ago and haven't smoked since , but due to insomnia I'm thinking of smoking weed again, but I'm terrified I would get psychotic again
5:44 YOU'RE NOT ON FIRE RICKY!!!
Intense right?
May I ask how long the hallucinations lasted from the psychotic episode? Just asking out of personal curiosity I've been a hard drug user for 12 years 5 years ago was diagnosed schizoaffective and the hallucinations have persisted consistently however they are much more real vivid and strong when I stop the meds which unfortunately I have resigned myself to the fact that I need to take them sitting in a half way house right now got 8 months clean. Dont really wanna say more because I'd be at risk of sounding a bit out of it.
Watch the Holographic Kinetics video :) there are ways to deal with these things the mainstream doesn't yet understand
@@KyLives kk I will thank u definitely looking more into what I'm capable of doing for myself to heal and improve on top of what medical treatment I receiving so far it feels like only some of it's a medical issue a lot of the deciding factors in whether someone gets better from what I've seen is up to the individual and how bad they want to improve.
From what I've seen the desire to make a change is the most important thing because you will be willing to go through the many possibilities before you find success. Don't give up my friend.
yep age definitely takes contol
What does this mean?
@@whiteninja6913 as you get older things bother you less
Big lez poster in the background👀
And t shirt
Have you had psychosis several times? Are you still smoking weed? I went psychotic 20 years ago and haven't smoked since , but due to insomnia I'm thinking of smoking weed again, but I'm terrified I would get psychotic again, thanks for your help
Weed is the most frequent culprit for triggering onset. If you know it's your trigger I'd avoid it. There are better ways to fix your sleeping patterns. Send me a message on socials and I'll try to get you in touch with someone in your area.
DO NOT DO IT TRUST ME . i was literally you a year ago and i’m fucked up now on weed
@@societalmenace7646 did it happen after the high?
*comment for the algorithm*
Your the mushroom man dude bro
Raising that fun guy awareness =)
there is no genetic predisposition, drugs are dangerous period.