Meditation and exercise are my preferred methods to achieve a better mental state of being. I took a lot of hallucinogens and drugs from 17 to 20. I was one of the unlucky ones and I have been having an altered state of being since then. Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder. This event made me think about what I was doing with my life and now I'm in a lifelong journey of abstinence. I'm 21 so I can't speak from a detached perspective, I'm still having persistent visuals and I'm only 1 month and a half sober. In any case, all of this was a very humbling experience. From overachiever to underachiever. Depression, brain fog, depersonalization, anxiety.. These symptoms did disappear, the visual distortions are still here. It has served me well as a experience in life and a way to understand mental illness in first hand. Maybe it was good after all. Time will tell.