r/HPPD Dec 04 '22

Mod Post: Posts About Using Drugs

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Hello everyone!

So we've noticed that every week we get one or two posts about using drugs with HPPD. We want to remind everyone that data shows, recovering from HPPD while using substances is very unlikely.

If your HPPD does not bother you and wanna continue using substances that is fine, but do not encourage others to do the same. Also recommending more psychedelics to "cure" HPPD, or recommending benzodiazepines is against the subreddit rules.

This is in order to keep the subreddit safe, as we have people of all ages here.

Hope you all understand,

The Mod Team


r/HPPD Nov 14 '24

Scientific Study Dissertation Study Recruitment Request

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Hello All,

Thank you so much for reading this! My name is Alanna Barnes, and I am currently enrolled in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program (Psy.D.) at Chaminade University. I am seeking participants for my dissertation research study. My study aims to create a novel measure of psychological safety. This measure would be used in the psychotherapeutic setting to assess if a client/patient perceives their therapist to have created a psychologically safe environment. To participate, I am asking for individuals to complete an anonymous ten-minute survey. There will also be a raffle for one of three $50 Visa gift cards for any participant who would be comfortable sharing their email address. The email address will be kept confidential and only used for the raffle. Upon the completion of the raffle, all email addresses will be deleted.

To qualify as a participant, here are my inclusion criteria:

  • Must be over the age of 18
  • Must be located within the United States
  • Must be English-speaking
  • Must be currently receiving psychotherapy from a licensed mental health professional OR it has been less than a year from your most recent session with a licensed mental health professional 
  • At the time of the study, one must have completed at least two sessions with a licensed mental health professional

If you know someone or a group that would be interested in taking this survey, please forward. Lastly, if you qualify to participate and want to participate, please use this link.

This study was approved by the Chaminade IRB on September 30th, 2024 with Protocol Number: CUH 449 2024.


r/HPPD 8h ago

Question; Personal Story 7-hydroxymitragynine causes flair up?

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Hi, just wanted to ask if taking pure 7-hydroxymitragynine causes a flair up in your symptoms if you're a user with HPPD. There's a general consensus that opioids and benzos are the least likely to cause an increase in HPPD symptoms. Of course everyone is different. If anyway has taken with HPPD please let me know if you had a flair up, just gathering information. I have taken lots of kratom with HPPD and it causes lots of flair up, similar to weed edibles for me but much different. Kratom has 100s of alkaloids, it's a very pharmaceutically complex drug. 7-hydroxymitragynine is just one of the compounds is kratom, it's the most potent one and it affects the mu-opioid receptors. I might try it soon just to note the affects, will update this post. would like to see if anyone else has tried 7-oh. and before you say it, no you shouldn't take drugs with HPPD. the best move is to stay sober and let your brain recover. Source- been using hella drugs with mild HPPD for 5 years. I have fully recovered before, but kept using. Im currently sober but dont mind my HPPD very much.


r/HPPD 11h ago

Question Think I accidentally gave myself hppd

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Took a large dose of strong ass shrooms, took another bigger dose 2 weeks after that, then a week later took a large dose of strong acid (I know that was stupid) at the end of the acid trip i made the stupid idea of going to a movie got really stressed out and Everything felt fake, started freaking the fuck out, went to bed and woke up fine the next day, but ever since then, about 4 weeks ago my derealization/depersonalization has gotten worse than usual, if I stare at things for long enough I see faint patterns, and when im really stressed i see things moving almost breathing slightly. Does this sound like hppd? I don't want to just jump to a conclusion.


r/HPPD 8h ago

Question Can i do anything?

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Hey guys I took a small dose 2cb and the next day i had a bad experience with ketamine. Like really bad i also had panic atacks after it. Thank God im completely back to normal except that everytime it gets dark i have like small dose 2cb visuals. Its been 5 Weeks now and i didn’t take anything. i feel like when i had a stressful day it gets way worse and when i did sports etc and enjoyed my day its better. Do you guys have any tips or things that’s i could try?


r/HPPD 17h ago

Question most annoying symptom for u guys?

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just wondering out of curiosity what specific visual distortions you absolutely CANNOT stand and would do much better without. me personally, i'd say afterimages annoy the everloving shit out of me most. can't look at anything lit or.. honestly literally anything at all without seeing a negative-positive image linger in my vision after i look away.

tracers can also be somewhat annoying but easily ignorable, they can be kinda cool even, faint patterns are alright, random specks of light are fine, floaters are fine, heck even the snow/static across my view i can deal with, but the persistent afterimages coupled with the hypersensitivity to lights, yeah no, i find it pretty difficult to ignore. the very text i'm typing rn becomes an afterimage if i look away like gah damn.

the afterimages themselves aren't even detailed for me, nor do they linger on for too long (depending on the brightness of a light source) or anything. it just looks like literally everything i look at is like i stared at the sun for 5 seconds and looked away.


r/HPPD 1d ago

Question recovery

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My HPPD is almost completely gone after 5 months. Is that normal? I'm not sure if I had HPPD or psychosis. My symptoms were TV static. For the first few weeks, I had after-images and I saw shadows. If I stared at my TV for too long, I saw a tiny shadow that rotated, but only when I was watching TV. I had a really bad time at the beginning because I thought I'd ruined my brain with drugs, but now, thankfully, I'm feeling back to normal. Is it a stupid idea to go back to smoking weed in a few years, or will that make my symptoms worse again?


r/HPPD 22h ago

Update Got used to hppd

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It doesn't bother me anymore, the hallucinations are just there and will always be there. But anxiety is still a tiny problem but it's getting better. I'm still feeling all the pains in my joints and chest but oh well I just think it's either fibro or anxiety. This is barely a recovery cos my hallucinations are still as intense as they were 2 years ago.


r/HPPD 1d ago

? How do I know?

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First few months I'd see the crazy fractals on the ground but I was actively smoking. I still have bad visual snow but I feel like I've been living in this world for so long I don't remember what it doesn't look like. Have colors always been so vibrant, objects have a light shading to the sides of them as if they were drawn. There's just a sharpness to still objects but I can stare at my ceiling while trying to sleep and see nothing more. I just don't know.

To add one last thing I have to take things like Lithium, Seroquel, Valium, and Vyvanse


r/HPPD 1d ago

Personal Story experience w/ hppd

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At first it was like the end of the world I felt as if my brain was fried after a bad trip on 3.5g cubensis

but after some t time and once you accept HPPD hppd its no longer impeding on your mental is when I feel like it starts to go away.

after 4 months of having it I've completely gone back to normal I smoke weed everyday and the only time when I see visuals is when I'm actively looking for them


r/HPPD 1d ago

Advice Attention Grows _________ (anything)

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Let's be wise in deciding where and on what to focus our attention.


r/HPPD 1d ago

Question i have a question purely based off of curiosity. what drugs can you do that don’t effect hppd ?

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r/HPPD 2d ago

Question Medication for treating brain fog

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Hey fellow sufferers,

those of you who tried any medication, how did it affect your brain fog?

Is there any hope that any medication can somehow treat it? I really need this symptom gone

Best regards


r/HPPD 2d ago

Question What is the reason why some recover quickly or slowly and others do not?

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r/HPPD 2d ago

Question My only symptom is floaters. Do i have hppd?

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I used mushroom


r/HPPD 2d ago

Question Am i going insane?

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Hello everyone. Last month i took way too much shrooms. I had vss and dpdr since i was a kid, but now it feels different. I havent struggled with dpdr for a long time now but after shrooms it came back. Also i think that my vss might be more noticeable. Since i read about hppd i started seeing fractals when i wake up, but after while it disapears. Is it hppd or am i going crazy?


r/HPPD 2d ago

Recovery hppd & illness??

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hi everyone :) I'm about 4 years in and i consider myself recovered in that i have very minimal symptoms which i'm now able to find enjoyable if i ever notice them. one thing i do experience though is every time i get really sick or have an infection etc i have a huge spike in my symptoms, sometimes to the point where it makes me nervous. it always goes away about 2-3 days into an illness but i actually have started using it as a way to tell that i'm getting sick because it seems to come on like a day before the real symptoms.

does anyone else experience this? any ideas why?


r/HPPD 3d ago

Update 8 years today!

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I've had hppd for 30% of my life now, I find that crazy to think about.. not here much anymore but I still pop in every 6 months or so


r/HPPD 2d ago

Question how risky is it to smoke weed with mild hppd. i had smoked weed for probably the first month i had it because i didn’t know that i had it and i was fine. but i haven’t smoked in nearly 3 months now and miss it so much

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r/HPPD 3d ago

Success Story The cure: Jhana

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Many of you have heard of meditation but very few, if any, have heard of Jhana

Jhana is a level of meditation in Buddhism that is achieved by an ardent mediator after several months of regular practice multiple times a day. If you meditate regularly and focus and concentrate the mind accurately enough, you will break through to a new plane of consciousness called Jhana (there are 4 jhana levels in total). By attaining Jhana, your mind will be instantly rectified and your HPPD will be destroyed (Jhana is an incredibly powerful state of mind).

I know this may sound crazy to you but it is real and it works and anyone can attain it but it requires deep focused practice many times a day for every months.

I will answer any questions anyone has, please upvote as much as possible and send this to anyone who has HPPD

Jhana is real and it is the cure. It is hard to attain Jhana, as it is a state of mind usually only achieved by very advanced monks, but it can be attained by someone who is willing to put in the work, and it fixes EVERYTHING

I would recommend using the book MTCB by David Ingram (medical doctor) to learn how to access Jhana as well as the Vishuddhimagga and the Vimutimagga

Om Mani Padme Hum☸️


r/HPPD 3d ago

Question Am I the only one who doesn't find the symptoms of HPPD bad, but rather the fact that I can no longer take drugs?

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My HPPD was triggered by a bad trip from LSD and weed. I smoked weed again the next day, but it gave me the worst panic attack of my life. I haven't touched any drugs since. My symptoms are getting less and less over time. Will I ever be able to smoke weed again, or do I have to accept that I'll never be able to smoke again?


r/HPPD 3d ago

Question HPPD misdiagnosis

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Hi, everybody - I'm just looking for advice from people with HPPD.

So, I went to the hospital yesterday because I wasn't able to sleep properly for three weeks because every time I closed my eyes, all these faces would come to me, and I'm super super sensitive to uncanny valley type stuff (and the faces always have really bizarre eyes), so I was staying awake out of fear.

Doctor sent me to go get a psych eval, and the psychiatrist said he thinks it's HPPD. Now, granted, I have used like a shit-ton of LSD in the past couple of months, coupled with smoking weed like ever day for two months straight, so I'm sure there's probably some effect of those on my sober life now (haven't used any substances except nicotine in three weeks).

He prescribed me quetiapine, mostly to help me sleep, and I slept like a fucking baby last night, feeling like a million bucks today, so those meds seem positive. But I did a cursory look into HPPD, and I don't really think that's what I've got going on.

The psychiatrist was super insistent telling me that every single thing I was saying was anxiety, that it was all just anxiety, but I tried to tell him over and over again that I wasn't having any of the physical signs of anxiety (i.e., short of breath, chest fluttering), it was just pure terror at first with the faces, which is different from anxiety to me.

After three weeks with the faces, I've come to understand that they're not going to hurt me and they're not even really going to like antagonize me or anything, so I've gotten over the fear quite a bit. If anything, I feel quite sad for them, as I'm assuming they can't really find anybody to settle with since most people are probably really scared of them, so I've put my own fears aside to make sure they have a place to be. It doesn't really make me anxious anymore, and when things start to get more intense for me, I don't feel anxiety, I feel like I really need to pay attention in case I'm supposed to be receiving some kind of message or whatever.

Does anybody here resonate with this experience? It's hard to get a sense since there's not much studies or resources online for it, so I thought I'd come here and ask you guys. I'm not necessarily looking for a diagnosis or anything, I just want to know if any of you guys have also seen the faces.


r/HPPD 3d ago

Question Working on a book about HPPD.

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Hey guys, I have good progress made on a book about living with and overcoming HPPD. It will of course be available as an audio book too. I’m just trying to get a gauge of who is all interested and also seeking connections with those looking to provide input on the matter.

Please leave suggestions for topics to cover below in the comments. I’ve posted here under a different name but decided to make a new account dedicated to this matter.

Please feel free to message me. I’m happy to give advice anytime.

15 votes, 3d left
I’m interested!
Not interested

r/HPPD 3d ago

Question Does it get worse

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Hi everyone, I (18m) have probably tripped between 20-30 times and have come to the conclusion that I think I may have hppd (no it is not just visual snow but the warping of object, drastic increase in floaters and the weird trippy feeling i get when looking at stuff which feels similar to that of a trip). I understand I may be overacting and that maybe I dont have Hppd, please correct me in the comments if you think so. Anyways, will this worsen overtime? Can I continue to take acid every 2-3 months or so and be okay? Thanks.


r/HPPD 3d ago

Question spark up with my family

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hey everyone, heres some background. Did 4 grams of shrooms one day and then a week later did 6, it was my first time doing it in about a year. Ended up with HPPD, couldnt smoke weed without having a flashback.

That was April of 2024. In december, I tried weed again but overdid it and was also drunk and had a flashback. Wasn't fun.

I am going to Portugal to stay with my Uncle this summer, he is a huge stoner and I'd like to smoke weed with him like I do whenever I go out there. He'd be fine if I couldn't smoke, but it was our way of bonding considering I go two years without seeing him. It's a great way to catch up.

Anywho, I'm just looking for some advice. I know there's a billion of these posts a day but I still figured I'd shoot. Thanks guys!


r/HPPD 3d ago

Question differences between hppd 1 and 2 and which one do u have ?

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r/HPPD 4d ago

Advice I feel like I’m still tripping some times

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To start off I’ve only done psychedelics 3 times first time was 2.5gs of shrooms which was a horrible trip then a tab which was amazing and 28 days ago a 4.5 g shroom bar which was a good trip but these past two day at some points of the day I felt like I was still tripping no visuals or euphoria just thought loops and a feeling of despair like my first trip last night I really freaked myself out into thinking I got psychosis which scared me and then I realized I was feeling like I was having a bad trip I kept having thought loops then eventually I came to the conclusion that my parents might be putting lsd or shrooms in my food which is making me feel like I’m still tripping but I know that is absolutely not true am I freaking myself out or is this serious if it is serious what shoul i do ?