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by hutzlibu 1814 days ago
"On the other hand people who have had bad trips are less likely to talk about it."

Depends, it can also go the other way around.

I remember from my teenage years, that mostly the horror trips from some persons, with the scary anecdotes of people who stayed on the trip and never came of it and stayed in some asylum, were openly shared.

One of the reasons, I was very cautious and never did a mushroom trip at that time and especially not in a potential bad environments like parties, focused on drinking.

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That was my experience as well. In my later teenage years there was a pretty successful movie around where the protagonist develops schizophrenia after using LSD one single time and his subsequential descent into "madness". That scared me off psychedelics for decades.
Sounds like "Das weiße Rauschen"? (The white noise, but I think he did mushrooms)

If so, I saw that one too ...

That's the one and you're right, according to wikipedia they were doing magic mushrooms not LSD.

Great and intense movie. So far the only time where I can say with certainty that a movie changed my life.