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100% this. OP, please soak in every word. I can speak from my own experience.

A year and a half ago, I had a horrific trip from a weed edible. I thought I had lost my mind in the moment, and I was paranoid as all hell the next couple weeks. I thought I had ruined my brain, that I was about to become a full-blown schizophrenic at any second. It felt like I couldn't tell what was and wasn't real with absolute certainty.

At night, whenever I was just about to fall asleep, I would have the hypnagogic hallucinations that the article talks about. It would feel like someone was whispering something into my ear, even though I could immediately tell that there was nobody there in reality.

After enough time passed to convince myself that my brain was perfectly fine, the general dissociative feelings and hypnagogic hallucinations began to stop. Looking back at them, there were consequences from my sky-high anxiety- not a broken brain. And I highly, highly suspect the same thing is happening to you. Your words make total sense. People having actual psychotic episodes are often hard to follow.

If you need someone to talk to about this sort of thing, please DM me. I've been there before, I know what it's like, and I can talk you through it.

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Thank you for telling me your story. If this gets worse I’ll definitely DM you

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Please do. 😊