What does that mean "A higher level of metabolic activity"? I'm too drained to read the whole article.
Also Janine, brilliant... this is me
Also Janine, brilliant... this is me
What you describe is very common to dp sufferers who have major anxiety or obsessive defenses. Those defensive structures get "rocked" by the experience of being on a rec drug - your sense of Reality was challenged, and if you're obessive to begin with (or held together sort of with spit and glue), that drug experience can be perceived by your mind as a kind of Trauma.
What then happens is that the mind spends the next several days trying to regain status quo - and it takes about a week for those efforts to hit a brick wall. the result is that the person develops some kind of horrible mental symptom to cope with the fact that they feel "changed" or diffferent...they're freaking out, to put it non-technically.