Experiences - Bad Trip: What Happened to My Friend? Will He be Okay?

[kuf66ver]

This weekend Swim and his friend went to a hippie music festival for the main reason that they wanted to experiment with drugs they do not have available often, if ever, where they are from. Swim and his friend did the same substances at the same time and are about the same size. Swim and friend started off by taking 1/8th of shrooms (swim's first time, friends 10th or so). The trip was pretty mild and not too stimulating. On the comedown, swim and his friend took .2g MDMA (both first times rolling) and went to a concert.

The MDMA did not hit very hard, it was a very lazy roll. After swim and his friend felt like the weak rushes were diminishing, they dropped 2 hits of acid. Swim had an absolute blast on his first acid trip, but his friend was paranoid and very anxious, and had a mini freak out. During his trip, he kept asking what was going on, what drug he was on, etc, but he seemed to be handling it pretty well, mostly just overwhelmed with the strength of the drug. Eventually, the trip wore off and they went to bed. The whole next day, swim's friend seemed like a completely different person. Very depressed and overwhelmed, couldn't stop thinking about things but couldn't find the words to express what he was feeling and thinking. He decided to do another 1/8th of shrooms because those are his favorite trip and he thought it would bring him back to his senses a bit (stupid).

About an hour after ingesting the shrooms, he started to trip and seemed to be having a good time, laughing and relaxing, chatting with me. Then suddenly he shot up from a laying position to a sitting position, his eyes got really big, and he started shouting random words that made no sense together at all. Then he started freaking out and ran out of the tent, ripping his shirt off, and literally diving headfirst into a campfire and walking across the hot coals with bare feet. He then ran back into the tent alternating between states where he appeared to be unconscious (would not respond to his name, but kept mumbling random words , phrases, and noises), to states of mania where he would yell random things and start freaking out and running around. After a few hours of trying to calm him down, he literally passed out and went to sleep. After sleeping for 8 hours he got up, was back "in it", but his personality had totally changed. He is normally the most outgoing person but that day he would not leave the tent, did not want to talk to anyone, and couldn't find the words to describe anything. The best thing he could do was say "total sensory overload" and he has seemed completely out of it for over 24 hours despite having not been on drugs since the bad shroom trip. He also has no recollection of his freak out moments while he was shrooming. What happened? Did he just mix too many drugs, or was he not in the right mindset? Like I said, swim was inexperienced as well, and did all the same drugs and doses and yet he felt great all weekend and never experienced any anxiety or any hint of a bad trip.