Can magic mushrooms permanently harm your brain?

Question

I took mushrooms for the third time friday before last. I had never had over gram or so, and I'm not that big, so when I took 2 grams with a few oranges and citrus soda, I went on a rollercoaster ride. I don't even care what I saw. I went totally insane, and my father (a legitimately insane man who was very drunk and very high on xanax at the time) freaked out my tripping friends and I to the point of no return. It's been very difficult to recover from this trip. If I think back on it, I remember feeling more of each emotion in that 8 hour span (which felt like an eternity) than I have ever felt in my entire life. And so intensely that the emotions I felt while tripping seem to make my emotions in real life insignificant. And right now, looking at this lcd screen, i see colors that are very evidently not real, but not very apparent either. When I look at my carpet, I cannot tell if it is moving or not. I don't see it doing either of those distinctly. I feel like whatever filter I had on my thoughts has somehow disappeared. And even now I feel less willing able to express my thoughts simply because I don't know what is crazy and what is not. And so I've been worrying my head off about this- Will I return to the normal me again?

Answer 1

When I took shrooms for the first time, I took about 2.5 grams, and I took them in the middle of a forest with a couple of good friends.

We were listening to "The Beatles: LOVE" album.

I was flipping out about an hour after I took them, and continued to freak out for about 5-7 hours.

The next few days I was fine, my mind felt very strange, but nothing seemed wrong.

About 3 or 4 months later, I was sitting around listening to music, when I just started having a sort of panic attack, I started thinking about death and life seeming bleak and pointless, I developed a very bad anxiety problem, and now every now and then I start to freak out about it, but meditation seems to help relax my mind.

I don't know if this answered your question, and I don't totally know if this problem I have is permanent so far, but I believe that shrooms really can mess you up mentally.

I don't say the same about LSD, because I love it.

It's never messed with me mentally, because acid is more of a physical/visual trip, and shrooms are more a mental/******* crazy trip.

Answer 2

That is the way it is when you trip but you havnt got all your dots lined up.  The shroom is a way to put you in contact with your proper naturality but sometime we have internal mental equilibriums that are still unresolved and those clash with the trip in that taking off you lift off from a runway still clogged and messed up  And then you spend the rest of the trip wanting to come down but you find you have to ride it out and hope some sanity is left at the end.  Of course there is no sanity and you find no one who understands and you still are stuck with the residual effects of having your established equilibrium almost vanished and your left out there somewhere wondering if your still not there.  Where are you trying to go?  Yet where are you trying to get back to?  Oh well.  Some people probably shouldnt drive cars because they will have an accident and nothing is the same ever again.

Answer 3

I doubt it.  I don't know how many times I got to tell people that the trip is not worth it.  I have a friend who had a bad trip, he cut off all of his hair and screamed and cried for hours about the spiders that were all over him.  He never was the same, now he's in prison...and still not the same.  He went wacky.

But, hey, you made the choice to take the trip, enjoy the journey you laid for yourself.

Answer 4

I do actually think you'll be fine. I do think you'll be back to normal eventually. I've only done them once and I felt exactly the same way you did, but I never considered it a bad trip (minus the fact that I didn't move for the first three hours due to nausea and the maybe 3rd phase when I was screaming to my boyfriend "AHHH!!! I'VE NEVER NOT BEEN IN CONTROL BEFORE!!!! AHH!!!!"

By I, I mean a friend of mine...

I do know people who couldn't handle it, perhaps they took more than me, but to be honest, they were ****** up before they were tripping.

IF you plan on doing it again, I recommend no food for at least a couple of hours beforehand and take a little less.

Answer 5

A few times this person gave me LSD without my knowledge....I mean they did the koolaid acid test on me......this was back in the seventies....hehehehe....I have never taken halucinagenic mushrooms but I know people that have! and they did NOT appear to have permanent brain damage from it. I think the aftershocks in your head will eventually fade away and no longer will be so prominent in your memory system. I think your 'comparative' state will get back to normal, even though you might always have *some* remnant memories. It is just that the memories are right up front right now, but in time I think they will recede more into the background. Please stay away from shrooms from now on, OK? This suffering you are going through isn't worth it, always remember that. Don't panic....give it time, OK. The panic will make it worse and create additional problems. Have faith that you will become normal again...the very fact that you are *ABLE* TO WORRY ABOUT IT is a really good sign. I think a big part of the problem you are having right now is preoccupational fear. Try to calm down, and realize the fact that if you were really too far gone you wouldn't be able to reason like this. Sola

Answer 6

I don't think that sh rooms can damage your brain. LSD can so stay away from anything that God didn't make. What you have had is called "A BAD TRIP" this will leave a lasting impression and for the most part suck big time. Remember, you need to be in the right frame of mind to begin with, think of it as a soul experience and not a mind trip. I have found it is best to be in nature and not with a lot of people as people are a trip in themselves and freakish enough without mind altering substances. Many never trip again after a bad experience as now you may be predisposed or paranoid even before you eat them little buggers.

Answer 7

Mushrooms interfere with the myelin sheath of your neurons, basically your neurons don't react and fire as fast as they normally would.  However, it would take a lot for you to develop something along those lines and the fact that you say you only had the dosage you mentioned should be no cause to worry.  However, everybody is different and reacts differently, therefore making drugs a very risky business.  If this lasts for more than a day even, you should definitely go see a doctor, period.