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That's your interpretation of the DSM. This has been discussed here: https://www.myptsd.com/threads/drug-induced-psychosis-resulting-in-ptsd.22973/

I'll drop the issue. I appreciate the dialogue and wish you all well.

Simply Simon, thanks for your response. I would say that PTSD should not be diagnosed when symptoms include hallucinations. I experienced hallucinations as part of flashbacks a couple years after the bad LSD trip and I haven’t hallucinated since then. That was about 17 years ago. As a side...

I appreciate your response and I also understand what you are saying. It seems that “The disturbance” refers to symptoms listed in criteria B through E, so it does refer to the present. The symptoms being presented are not “physiological effects of a substance” if a person has not used a...

Anthony, Criterion H does not necessary negate the possibility of PTSD. Consider these two hypothetical situations: 1. A person presents with symptoms of PTSD, but has substances in the body or recently used substances. PTSD would not be diagnosed. 2. A person presents with symptoms of PTSD...

After a bad trip, a brain can separate fiction from reality, so the same treatment might work.

Also, if a brain "cannot differentiate between reality & imagination," then it makes sense that a traumatic drug-related experience can affect the brain the same as real events.

Well, it's a fact that doctors have diagnosed people with PTSD when the traumatic even was a bad LSD trip, so it's not impossible. More importantly, it's rude to discount the experiences people have.

A bad LSD trip can seem very real and is very traumatic to the one experiencing it. There's no need to compare it to events that are traumatic to other people. What matters is the event that is traumatic to the person in question and how it has affected them. During one LSD episode, I was...

I don’t think people should be saying it’s not possible to be diagnosed with PTSD after having a bad trip. The perception of “loss of ‘physical integrity’, or risk of serious injury or death” is very real and very traumatic to someone having a bad trip. Criterion H also does not necessary negate...

I think criterion H is being misapplied here. It states, “Disturbance is not due to medication, substance use, or other illness.” Consider these two hypothetical situations: 1. A person presents with symptoms of PTSD, but has narcotics in the body or recently used narcotics. PTSD would not be...