Loky

not in the near future! a few beers here and there but nothing crazy for quite a while I think.

An interesting side note: is that most classic psychedelics, lsd, psilocybin, mescaline, mdma, etc. directly effect serotonin neurons. And, many psychiatrists believe that obsessive-compulsive disorder involves vulnerabilities in the serotonin system.

man this is interesting. i find i obsess about things a lot more these days. sometimes i even get really kind of paralysed with negative thoughts that i'm unable to shake. wonder if it is linked to serotonin or is purely psychological.

Thanks for all the replies boorgres and visual. Think i'll give the supplements a try and see how it goes. It mite even give me a good platform to stand on when i feel i want to start medication. Reading some of the stories on here makes me think my hppd isn't as bad as it could be. Although it sucks and it feels like I'm never thinking straight it could be much worse.

Another quick question has any one suffered or herd of any one having seizures/blackouts from hppd? I have had 4 of them in my life all since i have had hppd. My last one was over a year ago.

I'll let you know how i go to loky. Im from melbourne my self what about you? Im happy to travel interstate to see a doc with some experience with hppd

Best of luck to everyone.

Hey rrab,

sorry for the delay man - only just saw this thread again. Yeah I'm from Melbourne but I've been away for the last 7 months. I know there is a specialist drug recovery centre in Perth but haven't investigated what is available in Melbourne. This year I'm going to get into a lot of supplements and do a lot of research with the idea of calling Dr. Abrahams (it's $250 an hour apparently) or going to a neurologist in Melbourne to find out a few things. I find it's a bit of a tricky choice whether to try and not dwell on hppd and move on, or really try and sort it out. My mood fluctuates so much I really don't know where I stand.

I've been dealing with hppd for about a year now. If you ever want to meet up or whatever then let me know.

Cheers

I'm also about to start a vipassana 10 day course, will let you know how it goes.

cheers

Also any one out there in Australia had any luck with any doctors?

Nope. Went to a psychiatrist but was given respiridone which was not a good idea at all. I emailed Dr. Abraham's asking if he knew of anyone who specialised in hppd in Australia but he didn't.

Let me know if you find one please.

Cheers and all the best!

great work david

thanks mate

Would also love an update on this!

Cheers

I think the whole process is more complex. Sure hallucinogens excite cells, but this whole process leads to gene expression changes. Who knows, maybe a bunch of cells just became all interconnected that weren't supposed to because lsd goes in there and tells the cell to grow out a branch that it shouldn't normally do.... Ugh, crazy stuff.....

Bit of a newbie here, but could you briefly elaborate on this? What is your source? Cheers

Man my hangovers are TERRIBLE!! I usually only have a few beers these days, anything more and the next day is too hard, regardless of how much water I drink the night before. I think it's probably also because hangovers piggyback onto a night of low sleep. Both combined, sets off major DR and crazy visuals.

@ Brendan - What is "nac"?

Cheers

I'd love to know about this too.