Is it possible to induce schizophrenia?

[SweetSpot086]

I dont know why. It sounds bizarre and trippy. I want to experience it. I am mentally sick and fucked up already. So, why not.

 

[markimobzzdeasui]

Isn't the entire culture today schizophrenic? On different levels?

 

[SweetSpot086]

Isn't the entire culture today schizophrenic? On different levels?

Perhaps. I never thought of it that way. Its a perspective.

 

[Idkaho2]

Sure, just take meth for 6 months.

 

[HappyForever?]

I think it's the whole point of psychedelics.

 

[woknows]

I dont know why. It sounds bizarre and trippy. I want to experience it. I am mentally sick and fucked up already. So, why not.

You can try antipsychotic medicine to screw up your brain. But I would recommend against doing something so profoundly dumb.

Lack of some vitamins can cause psychosis.

 

[SweetSpot086]

I think it's the whole point of psychedelics.

I don't have access to psychedelics. I was thinking more like, when people go crazy in solitary confinement or something like that. Maybe not that intense.

 

[woknows]

Some have mentioned drugs. Might work.

 

[SweetSpot086]

You can try antipsychotic medicine to screw up your brain. But I would recommend against doing something so profoundly dumb.

Lack of some vitamins can cause psychosis.

Yeah, I know its stupid. Maybe, I am having a manic attack right now.

 

[whatevs]

I dont know why. It sounds bizarre and trippy. I want to experience it. I am mentally sick and fucked up already. So, why not.

Have you actually read about how people with it feel? There is very little in the way of entertainment when suffering that awful disease.

If you want a trip take an entheogen.

 

[Enigmatic Sailor]

I knew a guy on another site who said: "Wank to kiddies on Google images and associate a color with God to induce psychosis/schizophrenia". That doesn't scratch the surface of what he said, but dude was literal batshit insane. He also talked about consuming your own piss and semen.

Why the fuck would you do this to yourself?

 

[SweetSpot086]

I am sorry everyone, this was totally fucked up

 

[Darkover]

a lot of ecstasy can give you drug induced psychosis

 

[ashfall]

Stop sleeping.

I have insomnia and for an eight-month period, I only slept between 2-4 hours a night. It was as miserable as that sounds and I used a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms to keep myself awake and semi-functional during the day. At the time, I thought I was developing schizophrenia because I started getting visual and auditory hallucinations regularly about a month in. It was not fun.

 

[edu0z]

I don't have access to psychedelics. I was thinking more like, when people go crazy in solitary confinement or something like that. Maybe not that intense.

I don't think that torturing yourself psychologically and physically is going to make your life more interesting... sorry

 

[thisplaceisaprison]

Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, malnutrition, severe stress, being homeless.. It's not an immediate condition it develops overtime although I'm not sure if everyone has the possibility of developing it

 

[Chiisai]

Heck, im trying to induce psychogenic death.

 

[Darkover]

I don't think that torturing yourself psychologically and physically is going to make your life more interesting... sorry

actually being crazy was some of best times alive even though it's horrible to, at least things are more intense but still better to keep your facilities then be crazy mad.

 

[TerminalConscience]

You can induce psychosis. I had that happen after being up for 4 days.

 

[edu0z]

actually being crazy was some of best times alive even though it's horrible to, at least things are more intense but still better to keep your facilities then be crazy mad.

Tell that to my schizophrenic friend that every time she suffers an outbreak she tries to jump off a balcony.

 

[SweetSpot086]

Tell that to my schizophrenic friend that every time she suffers an outbreak she tries to jump off a balcony.

I don't know how the disease works, but schizophrenics I have met during my time locked up in a psych ward, were not aware that they have a problem, they were convinced, like for example they talk to god... obviously, others can recognize the signs, but they themselves wouldn't consider them sick.

I am sure, this is not true of all cases. But, thats the perception I had.

 

[edu0z]

I don't know how the disease works, but schizophrenics I have met during my time locked up in a psych ward, were not aware that they have a problem, they were convinced, like for example they talk to god... obviously, others can recognize the signs, but they themselves wouldn't consider them sick.

I am sure, this is not true of all cases. But, thats the perception I had.

Exactly. Before we were aware that she had schizophrenia, sometimes suffered panic attacks and started screaming "don't touch me!!"... it's something hard to see and harder to live in the first person

 

[SweetSpot086]

Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, malnutrition, severe stress, being homeless.. It's not an immediate condition it develops overtime although I'm not sure if everyone has the possibility of developing it

I know nicotine has the potential to cause hallucinations. There is a form of tobacco, I dont remember the name, its not the one used in ordinary cigarettes. It has a very high nicotine content and produces all kinds of psychotic effects.

I vape 50mg (highest strength available)..Sometimes I vape too much that I poison myself, nausea, vomiting, confusion, irritability, sweating...very unpleasant...I dont know how nicotine is used to produce that effect, maybe that tobacco has some other active ingredient, never really researched it, because its not easily available.

 

[Zero7]

I used to have a very intense samatha meditation practice where I would meditate for up to 6 hours a day in 1 hour sessions. To cut a long story short I ended up experiencing some extremely wierd things such as an altered sense of self and my surroundings. The buddhists call these sensations falling into the pit of the void. So yes you can induce a state that has similarites to schizophrenia. If you want to really go for a truly cosmic mind fuck then why not try and awaken the kundalini energy in your mind and body ? I only managed a partial awakening yet there are no words to describe it, nothing will ever prepare you for what you will experience.

 

[myopybyproxy]

I dont know why. It sounds bizarre and trippy. I want to experience it. I am mentally sick and fucked up already. So, why not.

I'm not going to tell you you don't want it, because I don't know you enough to be your mouthpiece. I will share that I found these experiences extremely dysphoric, but also I did not desire them beforehand. It is possible you may pursue this state and find you regret it once achieved.

Everything felt like a movie or a script - nothing was real, it was all staged. Music I ordinarily liked seemed demonic, satanic. Any art or beauty I came across had a sinister aura about it. I was constantly on edge and berating myself (often aloud) for being slow and stupid - because I truly was operating on a subpar level due to the neurosis. It's almost like symptoms of mental illness impede functioning (/s). Nothing was pure. Everything was tainted with evil. I was paranoid that I would stay that way forever, that people would know how crazy I was and get me sectioned - thus isolated myself completely, or overcompensated when I was around people which probably made them think I was crazy - and beside that, being around people was weird because I was the only one who knew the Truth.

There was nothing good. Existence was unbearably boring. Any entertainment - TV shows, movies, music videos, video games - was like muppets but with a menacing overtone. The entire world shifted down one semitone - transposed into a gloomy horror. There are no words to describe the misery. I alternated between being a hologram and being the only human amongst a holographic world. I thought I was alone and lonely before - ha - this was lonely to the infinitieth power. I was utterly desolate. Nowhere and nothing were safe.

I was sure there was an afterlife, wherein souls lived in the same monochrome nightmare as on earth - only the difference between this earth and the afterlife was that the latter was inescapable due to the lack of physical form and thus mortality. I was miserable every waking moment but suicide was Not an Option due to the fact that I somehow Knew that when my body was dead, my soul would walk from this earth to hell like you walk from your kitchen to your bedroom and suffer for eternity. Sleep was even worse than usual - woke up many times a night, unsettling dreams, taking even longer than usual to fall asleep, waking even more exhausted, tense, and achy - providing an easy gateway to a vicious cycle. I'm quite sure if I had more stress in my life, or taken more drugs at that time / slept less, I would have induced a state of insanity that lasted longer than the two days that it did. Parts of this state return in flashes depending on how stressed / sleep deprived / poorly I'm doing mentally and how many drugs I've taken or am coming down from.

Do with this information what you will.

Some means whereby I've personally experienced such brushes far too close with insanity for my own comfort:
- spice / k2 (synthetic marijuana)
- actual marijuana (high dose / edibles)
- high dose dextromethorphan in conjunction with crack, coke, or amphetamines
- huge amount of alcohol (BAC was probably around 0.2) in conjunction with various OTC pills (that I later learnt in overdose can cause hallucinations and delirium)
- meth, cathinones (forget which ones), alpha-PVP, flakka, PMMA - who the fuck knows what I took (it was sold as ecstasy pills, but I tested it before taking it to find it positive for the aforementioned and negative for mdma)
- sleep deprivation (going to sleep at midnight to 2 or not at all when I had to be at work at 5-6, multiple days in a row)
- stress (shoving everything under the rug and not allowing myself to express it for weeks on end - my usual methods not being all that healthy but better than nothing as I found out)
- acting like I was tweaking / schizophrenic for a day (was feeling very lonely and avoiding aforementioned coping methods by taking a meandering walk in the worse part of my town talking to myself and saying random nonsense to strangers - surprisingly, once I acclimated to hearing my own voice constantly, silence was extremely uncomfortable and I would hum or babble just to mollify my ears even after I had walked back and was trying to be normal again)

And it is possible for high dose lysergic acid diethylamide (and other psychedelics, but LSD is the most notorious for this) to induce temporary and permanent alterations in one's perception of reality. Set and setting are key.

 

[AloeGarten]

yea ive done it, DPH aka benadryl. its a horrible trip and theres really nothing to be enjoyed about it, low doses have u seeing things move out the corner of ur eye, fucks up ur thought process and short term memory and makes u feel really paranoid. high doses leads to delerium, shadow people, hatman etc. though like i said theres really nothing to be enjoyed about it

 

[Crazy4u]

You can try antipsychotic medicine to screw up your brain. But I would recommend against doing something so profoundly dumb.

Lack of some vitamins can cause psychosis.

can you mention examples of the vitamins? thank you

 

[Bone]

Isn't the entire culture today schizophrenic? On different levels?

This is a misunderstanding of what schizophrenia is.

 

[thisplaceisaprison]

This is a misunderstanding of what schizophrenia is.

Yeah, some of the replies here are describing induced psychosis instead of schizophrenia. It's not something you control, but there's factors that contribute to the risk of developing it. It's not something that ends when you sober up or catch up on sleep.

 

[author]

Yeah I think y'all are misunderstanding what schizophrenia is.

Schizophrenic person here. You cannot "induce schizophrenia", and psychosis is something different entirely. Technically, some drugs might make you hallucinate and get really paranoid, but it'll never really be the exact way someone with schizophrenia hallucinates. Especially since we live with it on a daily basis. Even with the potential brain damage of some drugs, it'll be just that - brain damage, not schizophrenia.

Besides, it's not really trippy, and kinda miserable. I definitely don't enjoy having it at any point. If you want a good trip, you have a better chance with LSD. You shouldn't be trying to emulate schizophrenia. Kinda shitty to people like me that suffer with it tbh.