living entirely in your head. This is what schizophrenics deal with.
Actually this is not the case at all. I smoked DMT several times while I ran away from the psychiatric ward and was under influence of the neuroleptics, and I took mushrooms too, and the trip was still there albeit altered, probably by the medications.
The world as I experienced it is one where there was NO alternation of my perception of reality. I understood everything, could reason, everything functioning normal, EXCEPT, that I saw entities like made out of electric light, that communicated with me, and that I constantly felt my thoughts and nervous system were tapped by an energy. NOT like a trip AT ALL. In fact during trips on mushrooms, these entities seemed to 'lay low', as if my real self was active then and they had to lay low. When off the trip, these entities were hostile.
I do not recommend to anyone experiencing this to go to a psychiatrist, having experienced such a condition and psychiatrists myself. They treat you with disbelief and disrespect, and neglect what you have to say, considering it useless babble. They are of no help. They rely on medications and 'therapy' to do the job for them. At best you see the doctor maybe half an hour in two weeks even though legally you should see the doctor more but the law isn't always applied. Basically you are locked up in a ward 'for your protection', as if you are a runt that doesn't know what he's doing. I, personally, ALWAYS knew what I was doing, but got treated like as if I'm demented. And nobody takes ANYTHING you have to say seriously.
I think I would have gotten more help from a shaman indeed. I kept seeing these electric entities even AFTER I was released from the ward, and they annoyed me BIG TIME, and it was by doing the right thing, what feels right by intuition, after I was released, that I got myself more or less normal.
The fundamental problem seems to be the ASSUMPTION that electric beings are not real, and a figment of the imagionation of the mind. Shamans seem to not adhere to this assumption. Hence why I think a shaman would have been more useful.