07-23-2009, 06:50 PM
(07-23-2009, 06:34 PM)MisterRabbit Wrote: I doubt you would get "hooked" on psychedelics. They are not physically addicting whatsoever, and they tend to leave you with that "Woah, not going to do that again for a while" feeling. Of course there are some exceptions, I suppose, and human beings can become psychologically addicted to just about anything.
Generally, that's probably true. At least not addicted in the commonly understood sense.
But, I think it depends on the person. I have a friend who was tripping several times a week, sometimes nearly every day, for several months. I couldn't understand how she was even functioning! She didn't have a job at that point in her life, so could stay home and trip as much as she wanted.
She was very caught up in New Age trappings (and by 'trappings' I mean because they were trendy, rather than as serious tools) and essentially thought that LSD was her shortcut to Ascension.
She also did a lot of cocaine.
A few years later, she displayed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her mom was diagnosed with schizophrenia, so I can't help but wonder if she had a predisposition to it, and the excessive tripping pushed her over the edge. I'd say she definitely got hooked.
I had another friend who boasted that he and his girlfriend were tripping several times a week. I don't know what happened to them.
Couldn't frequent tripping become a bit of a distraction?