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At 15 I had been put on medications for bipolar disorder against my will because my father had it, I experienced some depressions, but I did not think I was actually bipolar, I never experienced mania and I never really felt like I had a mental disorder.  I was on and off of drugs and wasn&#x27;t really affected by them (probably bc I was an all-county track athlete in high school).  Then after a severe depression spring freshman year of college that had me on the brink of suicide I came home and started feeling good again, it was summer and I could make up from my poor performance in the next semester.  Things were looking up, I had a good job, my life was under control again.  There wasn&#x27;t a better time to try LSD.
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I was at my friend&#x27;s house and I took 1 blotter at 5:15 and the second at 5:35, a big mistake but I didn&#x27;t realize that at the time.  At 6:15 I felt the onset of the acid, I felt weird and then the flowers on the table I was sitting at started growing.  I told my friend what was happening and asked if this was it and he said not even close, just wait until you peak.  Then I put on Dark Side of the Moon on headphones.  As Speak to Me/Breathe came on the first wave really hit.  I looked at my Zune and the prism started rotating and the light beams started moving up and down.  At the time, I felt like this was the beginning of the greatest experience of my life.  Then everything started “swimming” and I looked at a clock in the room and it started to contort and melt in on itself.  I was elated, it was everything I ever dreamed of and so much more.  I decided to go outside and smoke some pot, I wanted to experience nature.  Walking around outside, I tripped balls, everything was doing everything and I couldn&#x27;t get enough.  I couldn&#x27;t stop thinking: Life is where it&#x27;s at and that my mind was beautiful.  Why hadn&#x27;t everyone done this?  Why is this illegal?  That is all I could think about.
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The rest of the visuals weren&#x27;t important, just same old weird acid things, that weird pattern on everything, the Camel walking across the desert on my pack of cigarettes, etc.  What is important is during the peaks, I had 2 because I was an idiot and took the blotter at separate times, I had a life (and brain chemistry) altering experience.  It was during this time I was in a small room, incapacitated on the couch, waiting for the trip to be over, stuck in a thought loop about the moment is all experience, everything is one, all that hippy shit.  My thoughts raced and I couldn&#x27;t function, they went too fast and I realized that my brain chemistry could not handle this, I must be bipolar and this was a terrible idea.  When I came down from the acid, I changed my mind, I felt like it was the greatest experience of my life.  I wanted everyone to drop.  I felt like I was never more alive.  My thoughts moved a million miles per second, but that was because I was a genius.  I was on a different level than the rest of the world.  I was a genius, an artist, a innovator.   I was invincible.
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Reality check. I was manic.  I ended up taking 14 more tabs during 5 trips that summer.  One of those times was 3 tabs at work and I&#x27;m a lifeguard.  The more acid I took, the faster my thoughts were and the more I left the planet, the more manic I got.  It took until I could barely function before I went to a psychiatrist and started getting treated for bipolar disorder.
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Bottom line:  The amount of acid I took really exacerbated my bipolar disorder&lt;!-- , if you are bipolar understand that this is the risk you take when you do this drug (or any psychedelic for that matter)--&gt;.  
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Just to be clear, LSD did not give me bipolar disorder, that does not happen, I was already genetically predisposed.
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This does not mean I regret dropping acid, in fact I regard it as one of the most important experiences of my life.  I am and always will be a strong advocate of the psychedelic experience.
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