Experiences - My Psychoactive Mind

[coppersocks]

Apologies in advance for the typos because I just got back from a night shift at work.. (The amount of words I had to correct even in that last shift is amazing)

I know this might be the wrong place to put this but I could really see any other forum that I thought suited this topic...
This is really just a summerisation of my friends experience with pyshcoactives and a few questions at the end that I hope people can help him with...

When he was fifteen he had his first joint (well his first time was a pipe) and after aabout 6 months on and off use it turned into an everyday/ every other day affair.. he loved doin the stuff, he would sit around with friends and make hmemade bongs/ lungs/ pipes ect... and be able to smoke hit after hit... he never really experienced the pyschoactive effects that people talk about on such sites as erowid and such, he would just get a massive body high that would take me away for 15 minutes of euphoric laughter then and tingly rushes all over.. he loved it and couldn't get enough..
Then he did shrooms, it was a house party (his own house party) and the place was a tip, full of people pissed off there heads whilst he ran around thinkin the bathroom was green (it wasnt, it was and always has been yellow). It was going swimingly for a long time but two of his friends started takin the piss and it just turned it on him, bam. These were strong mushys too (liberty caps) and he'd taken about 35 and he's a skinny lad. Anyways after that he became aware of the power that pyschoactive could hold oer ones mind, he respected them more and was now always more aware of the little mood swings and feelings and thoughts that could run through his head when he stoned... his innocense was gone. The fun left abit also... Getting high was for the sake of it now rather than for the fun of it. Maybe it always had been.
He conituned though, and about 2 years of phases of heavy smoking and not so heavy smoking him and a friend decided to try mushrooms again... they went to a friends house and while the guy whos house it was was asleep on the couch and his parents were in the room directly above us asleep, they proceeded to have the single greatest experience of their lives. Something was just... right. They stayed up all night talking and seein the floor crawl. But the best thing about it was the absolubt confidense it gave him... it was a true revelations... His friend says he had never seen him so happy in all my life... Ill describe the trip more if asked to but I need to move on.
After that trip... for about 3 months after that he felt more confident and comfotable in hisself.. a great trip truely stays with you as all of your friends probably know..
That was in april two years ago... then in september that year he went to collage and fell in with a group of people who smoked everyday... well they didnt until they went to collage.. none of them did.. but they were all bad influences on each other...
Smoking weed everyday for 1 and half years was horrible... They would smoke until everyone just went quite watchin youtube or alluc or some DVD then continue smokin till about 6 in the morning, every day, every single damn day. It nearly drove him insane.. the social paranoia, the complete lack of motivation, the nocturnalness (I know thats wrong). Every time he got stoned he would go to the exact same place, and this is my point to the story, my question.. Everytime he smoked he would get all of those symtoms. Dont get me wrong it affects all people in different ways but for him it was a bad way.. He dropped out of collage last christmas... came home, worked a bit, stuff like that... became happy again
Then this august past he went interrailin round europe.. had a blast.. lots of coke and pills, he had a really good time then he went to amsterdamn and they took mushrooms in a camping site and he TRIPPED OUT.... his friends all seemed to have a blast though they all agree now that it was a bit too weird.. but anyways, whilst he was trippin all these thoughts suddenly came back to him, the paranoia, the uncertainty.. He felt socially unacceptale to his friends and thought that they didnt really like him, that they just hug out with him for covienience... all stuff he had thought whilst at collage but in a much more intense way... He thought it had made him depressed again and that all the time spent becoming happy, like a real person was taken from him.. it hadnt, after the trip he felt normal, though shaken... and the shrooms hadnt altered him whilst he was in the "other place"... He workin now and happy and stuff and still have the odd joint at wkends.... but even then when he have just a couple of joints, that same fear comes back a small bit and I suppose thats the reason I writin this to ask somebody more clued up on these things, have pyschodelics been wrecked for him? should he just not take them any more (namely shrooms and toke) because he'll always go to that place?
Or will he grow out of it cause it dosnt feel like it will and he misses the class buzz of loving being really high or the euphoria of mushrooms, I think its fear of his own mind now and fear of fear that takes him there when he's high, is there anyway to beat that fear? or should he just stay clear?

He's been considerin doin a large dose of LCD fo a while to completely face his fear and see if by doin that then he'll be able to go back to the way it was and enjoy his pyshoactive mind instead of fearin it... good idea or bad? is there a better drug for doing this?
Thanks for your time and help in advance

Coppersocks