r/DPH | Disturbing & Controversial Subreddits

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

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[@smith6121]

hey this is the subreddit i found that made my sister realize that pur mom was accidentally poisoning her as a child. she thought she was schizophrenic but it was just the benadryl

[@distort10n]

My mom used to have me take NyQuil to fall asleep bc we didn't know I had undiagnosed ADHD, but I would stay up and trip on dxm. One time she actually paid attention and saw how I had trouble walking and she felt so bad she never asked me to take it again. I don't blame her because she wasn't purposely trying to poison me, but I wish she had paid more attention. I can't imagine how fucked up it is to purposefully do this to your child.

[@orcaunoo]

I’m done

[@Iquey]

​​@@distort10n I remember being sick with the flu as a small kid (maybe about 4 or 5) and my dad encouraged me to take the adult size dose of dxm cough medicine instead of the child sized dose. The dreams I had were awful, including night terrors, and thinking I saw a demon/alien creature in the bathroom. Not fun.

[@UncleSamsoniteLover69]

I’d ask how on earth she managed to give her child a dose high enough to produce symptoms, but honestly I don’t have to. People nowadays have gotten way too comfortable with over the counter drugs and are popping them back like candy despite all the information we have about them, I can’t imagine how it was back then. Just goes to show no matter how “safe” a drug may appear, always proceed with caution.

[@vantavin]

this is INSANE

[@zeldamother64]

When I first met my partner they had a DPH/Benadryl addiction and they didn't want to scare me away with their addiction because they had a big crush on me so apparently they stopped cold turkey and got pretty bad withdrawals. Didn't find that out until 2 years into the relationship how bad they were struggling and thought they just did it recreationally. Needless to say i'm very proud of them and thank GOD everyday they're sober, and happy I was the catalyst even if I didn't know i was at the time (sage if you're reading this I love you with all my heart)

[@WobblesandBean]

This is so wholesome, thank you 💜

[@GayIdol]

That is so sweet of them to do, hope the two of you are doing well.

[@LRsaturnine]

the addiction that develops with dph is the weirdest thing; there aren't really "withdrawals" like you might think so much as a weird compulsion to keep going with it

[@Kneon_Knight]

Some people are fortunate enough to create positive change by simply existing. I hope that the two of you you have a long, healthy, happy, and prosperous life together. Blessed be.

[@dylan4142]

That last line 😭😭😭 hope yall stay happy and safe

[@lindsayschmidt2177]

I genuinely have no idea how someone who takes 400 pills or 10,000mg of Benadryl is even alive at all. I’m honestly very skeptical of that story as I really don’t think that amount is survivable.

[@highbread817]

I'm with you on this one. Maybe their experience was real, it does sound like a dph od. Maybe this happened but less than 10g

[@natisfreezing]

It depends on how big they are, too. Body mass definitely would effect how much you need. That and how used to drugs they are. Like for some reason it takes me a long time to get drunk while others around me can be drunk after a few.

[@anjhuzen8884]

i took 120 pills in an “attempt” and was later told that i shouldn’t have survived. i’m not a large individual by any means, but i’d imagine someone would have to be absolutely massive to survive that without serious physical consequences, unless they got sick and threw some up. EDIT: i posted this comment before actually listening to the story; OP’s description of what happened would fit with taking that much, but i’d also imagine it could’ve been a significantly lower dose with the same effects; if OP really did take 400 pills, i’m not surprised they had that extensive of issues, but i am still surprised they survived. as i said, i was told i shouldn’t have survived; i was in the ICU for a day and a half and i took less than a third of what OP states they took.

[@Spooky_Platypus]

The LD min (minimum lethal dose) is 10.1mg per kg. So if you were 165 lbs, the minimal dose to kill you would be 757mg. With each benedryl being 25mg, 400 capsules would be 10,000mg- way beyond lethal range. I very HIGHLY doubt that person took 10,000mg of benedryl. Unless they’re posting from beyond the grave.

[@subliminal-damage]

I wonder if OP threw up while in the hospital and that's part of how they figured out what it was that he took. I have to presume that your stomach would revolt with 400 pills kicking around in it, and it'd lower the actual absorbed amount a little. Idk.

[@unlimitedbug]

This crap gave my sister a chronic panic disorder and ruined her life. She turned to harder stuff to cope and her scummy adult friends were all too willing to oblige. She passed away before we turned 20. I still remember holding her and staying up with her the entire night after she took this at 16 and had a bad go. Had to keep telling her she wasn't d*ing over and over and over, till 9 in the morning. She had panic attacks for days after and never recovered fully, had them at least every other day after that. Edit: I wasn't expecting many responses, if any. I'm greatly appreciative of the kind and encouraging words, thank you. My sister suffered more than I ever will, however. Please, if you see a friend or loved one, especially a teenager, going down the wrong path and you have any way of turning them around, please do. It can't be understated how quickly things can go badly, especially if they're mentally unwell and have bad influences in their life. Be the good influence in their life and remind them that they're needed. My sister and I weren't in contact when we were 17 as she'd left our home, and it only took two years for her life to be ended by OD. Us reconnecting at 18 wasn't enough. If you have the ability to be present, do so. Her last text to me a couple days before she passed was a completely unprompted plea for me not to leave her, followed with no reply to my supportive response. My last worried text to her was the day she passed, and I know now she never got to read it given her TOD. They need you more than you know, and most of the time they won't tell you in a straightforward manner, if at all.

[@ComaLies225]

Jeez I’m so sorry. My condolences love ❤️

[@unlimitedbug]

​@ComaLies225 Thank you, I appreciate it. She passed back in 2020 and it's still extremely hard to think about how avoidable it would have been with better adults in our lives. We were twin sisters so it was always us against the world, it felt.. Don't mean to prattle on. I do greatly appreciate the condolences.

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

I'm so sorry for your loss, can't imagine how awful that must have been for you. I hope you're coping 😔 Thanks for sharing your story 🖤

[@unlimitedbug]

​@@TheInternetInvestigator Thank you. I try every day for her.

[@hannahbanana9842]

Im so sorry, that is just awful 😔

[@GuyNamedSean]

925mg of DPH is a whopping 37 pills of Benadryl. That's terrifying.

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Yeah, I can't even imagine taking all those at once, sometimes I struggle swallowing 2 paracetamol 😅🖤

[@desertparanormal2791]

That's how many Xanax I took 18 years ago when I tried to unalive myself. I can't imagine choking down that many pills again, for ANY reason.

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@desertparanormal2791 Same. Only it was my prescription vicotin. For what it's worth, I'm glad we both survived.

[@shujitsushima3]

I took 40 once, never again

[@si45megamera]

​@@shujitsushima3 Are you fine right now? I can't imagine that quantity of pills being at all easy on your body 😢

[@hiide0us123]

"After that moment, i don't remember much if what was happening..." *Proceeds to describe in vivid details*

[@WobblesandBean]

Exactly. Some of these sound legit, but that one is fake af.

[@niraea]

i have trouble believing any of these trip reports because ive just never experienced anything like a trip on benadryl in doses from 150mg to 2500mg. like literally zero symptoms of hallucination or reality bending or anything. not even memory loss. just tiredness, lethargy, extreme thirst, and fear of dying. yet i'm the person who can't take a normal dose of nyquil if i have to work the next day because it makes me feel like i'm mildly tripping on acid for 1.5 days straight... i'm sure people DO expierience this but like how come i never did, even with doses higher and more lethal than these trip reports allege? maybe you have to take it with the intention of tripping or something lol

[@raeraebadfingers]

@@niraea you are right in a way! The expectation of the experience is just one factor into the whole sum of the experience! Also genetics, environmental stressors, culture.. it's quite interesting. 😄

[@nodical802]

Ive taken high doses the only experience I coould report is thinking I see a spider

[@TwoBs]

Yea, so many posts on these types of subreddits are straight up fanfic-styled posts about drug trips. People eat it up. They all use the stereotypical trip report that give detailed imagery but yet in the same story will talk about how they didn’t remember waking up, etc. Much like the “so and so died, but I somehow just knew to check their Reddit account and 100% totally knew that I needed to give everyone an update about this person you don’t know using a throwaway account’s passing.” as it’s happened way too often … even back then on old forums people would pull that for sympathy posts for some reason (to become apart of some legendary “rip” posts I guess) while using the same IP (this was before VPNs were even common to use) to create another account to pretend to be someone completely different … remember on a few forums the admins had to call some people out for it. I highly doubt that shite has changed with things like Reddit.

[@diretrip]

I feel like hot garbage after taking the recommended dose of this stuff. Can't imagine taking even a few of these things at once

[@WobblesandBean]

Right? I was just thinking about that, I don't get sleepy when I take benadryl. I feel like I'm crawling out of my skin, and that's just with a normal dose.

[@ctobolsk]

Nice to see you here Dire!

[@Garden0flowr]

Even if it works for sleep in some people, it should never be overdone Its medicine with a specific purpose and size, this can destroy people if misused

[@piratedre4d]

Herro :3 Love when u guys comment on each others vids. The support! The camaraderie!

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@piratedre4d Especially when you're subbed to both, hehe.

[@Cattomeowo]

My mother ‘accidentally’ OD’ed me on DPH at age six - I was very sick, likely having an allergy-induced asthma attack, and it was very late at night. My mom I guess was too “embarrassed” of the “scene” it would cause if we called an ambulance (she didn’t have a car or license and my dad was on a business trip). That’s what she always said when I brought it up as a kid, but really, I think at that point she was concerned about CPS charges for poisoning me. So back to that night: She kept giving me more and more liquid DPH, hoping it would help bc the doctor had recommended previously for allergies. This was not allergies. I was tossing & turning in my bed, struggling to breathe and panicked. I remember opening my eyes and seeing my entire bed covered in a thick layer of cockroaches. I screamed for help and tried to stumble to my mother’s room. She got up and told me to just come sleep in her bed with her and told me the cockroaches weren’t real. I laid in her bed and kept getting startled because as I watched her sleep, I kept hallucinating her eyes were open and all black, glaring at me. At one point, I was seeing my family members’ head floating in the air near the ceiling. It would alternate between which family members’ heads were floating, and they looked semi transparent, like ghosts, with smoky green fog. They were just staring at me, eyes dark and angry, sometimes mumbling. I was so terrified, I kept waking my mom up about it and she kept saying it wasn’t real and that I just needed to try to get some rest. Rest wasn’t happening because I could barely breathe. I don’t remember anything past that, I think I blacked out around this time.

[@WobblesandBean]

Yup. My mom was the same way, she refused to take me to the emergency room on several occasions because she worried more about total strangers judging her as a bad mother than she did about my welfare. Frankly, CPS should absolutely have been called on your mother. I'm absolutely enraged at her on your behalf.

[@unknown6390]

If you struggle with panic or anxiety disorders today you might have a phone call or two to make

[@Spooky_Platypus]

If it makes you feel any better, I have a couple allergies that cause anaphylactic shock. One is aspirin and you’d be surprised how prevalent that or its main ingredient, salacylic acid, are! I’ve had to be taken to the hospital more than once via ambulance thanks to these allergies and I’ve been treated with everything from epinephrine to benedryl. Doing an absolutely massive dose of liquid benedryl is something I’ve had as treatment many times. So your mom wasn’t really doing anything the ER wouldn’t have done. Obviously she wouldn’t know the perfect dose, but she was trying and using the correct thing to try. If you have allergies that result in anaphylactic shock, and don’t have access to an epi pen, make sure you always have benedryl around for your safety. Yes you feel like shit after but it’s less dangerous than epinephrine (which also makes you feel like shit) and it works!

[@abellabarbie]

Poor thing. ❤

[@Cattomeowo]

@@Spooky_Platypus I have several allergies that cause anaphylaxis too, and here’s the thing, which I didn’t know until I started taking myself to the ER on the rare occasion I had a severe reaction, and you can Google this to confirm if you want: DPH alone will not stop anaphylaxis. It is always used in conjunction with other medications intravenously at the ER. Using DPH to treat anaphylaxis at home is a potentially fatal risk (that my mom put me at endless times). We didn’t even own an epi-pen even though I had severe peanut allergies among others. Didn’t have a rescue inhaler either. My medical record stops at age 2.5 and doesn’t show back up high school when I old enough to realize the only way I’d get to see the docs I needed to desperately see was if i made CPS threats (usually because I had bronchitis or a similar infection, figured out later it was likely because of the terrible mold infestation that house had (look up “mold mushrooms” if you wanna get freaked out real quick, these showed up in my guinea pig’s cage once when I was a kid).

[@anjhuzen8884]

as someone who has used massive quantities of benadryl in both “attempts” and for vaguely recreational purposes (still with ideation as a driving force): dph trips are not fun trips. they are not like lsd or shrooms. i was lucky enough to not meet the “hat man”, and it was still absolutely terrifying. i have TWO distinct memories from several months worth of trips. first, i was slapping at bugs that my then-boyfriend had to inform me were not there. second, i spent an entire day convinced i had died and was now a ghost, because i had friends over but no one was talking to me even though i was talking to them. it was only after coming out of it that i realized i’d been alone the entire time. i’m also pretty sure i gave myself a small degree of brain damage from it; my memory is far, far worse than it used to be. i also now have trouble taking pills because of it, and even the smell of benadryl makes me nauseous (yes, it has a smell). i can sort of understand how it could be considered a cheap and accessible “trip”, but for the love of gd, i’ll never understand how people can think it’s worth it. EDIT: can’t believe i forgot this one (take that as proof of memory loss if you want) but my last overd0se left me with 20 thousand dollars in medical debt, because i left my apartment door open and my neighbor called in a welfare check, at which point i was forcibly taken to the ER and then the psych hospital. so, yeah… it’s not worth it.

[@wompppwompwomppp]

Glad youre still here, stranger.

[@anjhuzen8884]

@@wompppwompwompppthank you. me too. 😊

[@ghost-bo8nm]

i used to steal 5-20 pills at a time from my grandmother and then take them with diet dr pepper (especially cherry flavor). the smell of my grandmothers room, benadryl, and diet dr pepper make me feel nauseous as well

[@juliana.x0x0]

I was sent to an "alternative school" for kids who had substance use issues when I was about 14. The actual problems that drove us to experiment weren't addressed, so it was mainly a place for us to congregate and swap different ways to get high in the most accessible ways possible. There was a girl there who would regularly take 2-3 boxes of coricidin, which is a cough and cold medicine. It wasn't an antihistamine but rather dextromethorphan, or DXM. I tried it a few times and landed myself in the ER with activated charcoal being forced down my throat, and the "high" was a terrible feeling anyways. The girl that used it regularly must have had some serious issues from it, as she was seemingly jaundiced, with yellowing in her eyes and fingernail beds.

[@Nocturnal_Mee]

This was my experience at 16 when I went to a place called YOU Inc. It’s outpatient program for teens struggling with substance abuse. Granted they drug tested us but in my experience there, most of us just swapped tips,tricks and “supplies” to suppress the issues that the rehab/staff werent addressing. Mostly underlying mental health issues leading to self medicating. This was in 2006 so I hope they’ve found better ways of addressing and treating young adults who struggle with it.

[@janerecluse4344]

Coris will kill you dead. Too much Tylenol. You want the Cough Gels.

[@juliana.x0x0]

@@Nocturnal_Mee yep same exact time frame as me as well. Those places just taught kids more creative ways, more *dangerous* ways, to do it to get around those tests as well. It just did so much more damage than good!

[@juliana.x0x0]

@@janerecluse4344 yes, that's why they made me drink charcoal, for the Tylenol specifically! I'd take like 1-2 boxes at once cause I was dumb and that's what others recommended. Always good to make harm reduction information available tho, appreciate that!

[@hiyoutubeitsme]

i had this happen to me too. put into an alternative school, only to make the problem and addiction worse bc i was around people to talk openly about this topic. i had a very good friend take triple c’s and she went crazy. trying to khs in front of me and not stopping. she never recovered and she has brain damage. that was 14 years ago and she’s still the same. i’ve lost many of friends to drug addiction. no one ever addresses the actual problem, it’s always as if we are just pushed aside and casted out of public view as much as possible

[@josephsmith7114]

I did DPH once, and never again! My pants fell off in a local coffee shop and my parents found me talking to a tv screen that wasn't on

[@kujo4388]

This video is saving lives. I recently watched a video about the “Benadryl man” and someone covering the fact, the go into detail about the drug and it’s effects but the side effects weren’t throughly emphasized. Someone could easily get the completely opposite impression and just think “ oh I can get super high for cheap” without even realizing just how terrible of a decision that is.

[@WobblesandBean]

Who was it? It's incredibly reckless to upload a video like that and not highlight the deleterious effects.

[@aubreymorgan9763]

makes posts describing a horrible night ends with "i don't remember much, I had fun". NONE OF THAT SOUNDED LIKE FUN

[@MGavin]

It is in the moment, just not after the fact

[@WaltuhBlackjr]

They are addicted to the idea of drugs

[@BaofuTheCanonicalPersonaHater]

it was type 3 fun (involves a lot of pain and suffering and is not actually fun at all)

[@dashockpixle4140]

Adrenaline junkies who can't afford to put their body at risk put their minds at risk

[@oliviaroseink]

This particularly fucked up to learn about because I was forced to take unknown doses of Benadryl every night while imprisoned in a youth RTC in Utah. We were all drugged pretty heavily so it’s hard to know but I wonder if daily long term consumption of it has had other effects.

[@notahumanbeing6892]

that’s horrific I’m sorry you went through that, definitely get your liver checked on that’s a big one with long term exposure

[@unknown6390]

Wtf?? So sorry. You should share the name of that place. Those things should be illegal

[@oliviaroseink]

@@notahumanbeing6892 thank you, and fortunately I have never suffered from organ damage that I am aware of at least but I was confined due to TBI and often wondered whether it was the drugs of TBI

[@oliviaroseink]

@@unknown6390thank you. It should be, but unfortunately it is still very legal

[@fwestah]

Along with liver regular use of dph even in approved doses puts you at higher risk for dementia and is very damaging for your brain

[@bronsontolliver9027]

I used to get wrecked on DXM and DPH back in high school. Took a bunch one night and blacked out, came to fully dressed standing at the end of my driveway waiting for the bus at around 3am. I remember talking to my neighbor for what felt like forever, he even gave me a cigarette and a light. I watched him become the weeds and trees between our houses and thought nothing of it. Wish I could say that was the last time.

[@ConsistentlyInconsistent21]

Hes no snitch. Seems like a good dude who saw another good dude. You weren't hurting anyone and he checked up on you. W fuckin neighbor

[@bronsontolliver9027]

@@ConsistentlyInconsistent21 He totally wasn't real. I mean, he was really my neighbor, but he wasn't really there. I asked him about it the next day and he laughed until he cried.

[@_HimToo]

In the su;cide story- Fentanyl is a painkiller. They wouldn't give you that to sedate you when you're overdosing on benadryl. I don't think they'd give it to you to sedate you even if you weren't on benadryl since there are meds specifically for sedation & fentanyl isn't one of them! Also, fentanyl has a super short half life- it doesn't last long at all, so they wouldn't pump him full of fentanyl to keep him under for days. It'd take such a crazy amount of the drug when they could just use much less of something that's actually meant for that purpose. I mean, I'm not a dr so I could def be wrong but I feel like the person is either mistaken or lying.

[@AliceAWilson]

When my wife was in the ICU, she was sedated with fentanyl, propofol and versed. It will knock you straight out and put you in deep sedation; they can give you enough fentanyl to knock you out as a ventilator is doing the breathing.

[@ctobolsk]

⁠@@AliceAWilsonthe propofol is an anesthetic, so it does the heavy lifting I think. The fentanyl does work with it to intensify the effects (and for pain relief), and the versed is so the patient doesn’t remember the experience. But from my experience (tons of medical stuff I’ve been through, including a medically induced coma), fentanyl wouldn’t be used by itself for sedation

[@proserpine3332]

Yep. Many trip reports sound exaggerated or like creative writing.

[@LRsaturnine]

I've had fet in a hospital setting after a wreck and know people who use it recreationally now that actual heroin is next to impossible to find; fentanyl is 100% sedation 0% euphoria in my experience, and my junkie friends largely agree with my assertion; some people get a little euphoria once the addiction & withdrawals set in but that's really just the euphoria of easing withdrawals

[@roxyamused]

Yea, I found a couple of those stories iffy to say the least like that one who said they saw elves or something painfully cliché, and the one where they said they kept being given "fentanyl" for their OD and that just doesn't make sense at the very least because it sounds like DPH can increase the heart rate and make breathing difficult, while opiates would decrease heart rate and depress respiration. That's an incredibly bad combination of effects. Benzos make sense for doctors to use, because they're used for bad acid trips or to come down from acid.

[@zacharyantle7940]

*Video* : “I started hearing strange voices outside my kitchen window” *Opera GX ad right after that* : “I see you still haven’t upgraded to this default web browser”

[@ValariaJet]

The one about brain damage after overdose 7 years ago sounds like a TBI. The story reminds me of my own ADHD symptoms but slightly off. ADHD-like symptoms can onset after a head injury so you need to disclose any head trauma when being diagnosed with ADHD. I wonder if the med abuse meant they couldn't remember - or recover from - a serious head injury. Don't do drugs and wear your seatbelt/helmet/ppe. You only get one brain.

[@owlbyovrprepared1128]

TBIs are the worst. The looks of horror I get every time I tell doctors how many and when my first one was is sobering.

[@AlainaRene87]

As a heroin addict thankfully in recovery for going on 10 years.. stories like these hit so close to home, and it's just so freakin tragic. Too many young lives taken far too soon. 💔

[@nikkydalby7126]

Congrats on your sobriety- I need to buck up and do it, but keep pushing it off 🙃

[@AlainaRene87]

@@nikkydalby7126 thank you so much love!! I have so much faith in you, and can't wait for the day that you comment back here again to let us know your sobriety date!! 🤘🏻💜

[@j.w.5788]

10 years is awesome! ❤️ I only have a few months but my life has already improved so much. People like you inspire me to keep going. Keep up the amazing work!

[@AlainaRene87]

@@j.w.5788 I am so freakin proud of you!!! Every single day is such a huge accomplishment, and you're doing amazingly! 💜💜💜

[@j.w.5788]

@@AlainaRene87 that means the world to me, thank you so much!!

[@ketzerapathetic1414]

I used to take large amounts of Benadryl before my college painting classes and occasionally during night time painting binges. One time took a bit too much and had a bad night, almost burnt down the studio. Never did it since.

[@naurrr]

I had a friend who used to abuse Robitussin when I was in college and I was so worried about them. Eventually they stopped but the way they described the high from it made it sound more miserable and depressing than any real drûgs you would do for fun. They stopped and they're doing better now afaik but I was so shocked at the time when they told me about it.

[@AleTitan]

I used to do the same but in pill form. It was fun for a while, but eventually instead of a high, I'd break out in red painful rashes with no high. And for a while, I kept trying because "maybe next high will be like the old good ones. I just need a higher dose" So perhaps your friend kept trying to get a good high, but kept ending up with bad ones. Glad to hear your friend is doing better nowadays, though

[@WobblesandBean]

Yeah, I accidentally took a double dose of robitussin and it was absolutely awful. I can't imagine why anyone would do that deliberately.

[@LRsaturnine]

different thing, different experience; they kinda go hand in hand the way like mild doses of Cannabis and alcohol can kinda be similar and synergistic but Robitussin ie dxm and Benadryl ie dph are different things. the biggest difference for someone not using them tho is just that dxm is monumentally safer

[@noahnothing5579]

Just gotta say DPH is not a psychedelic. Classic psychedelics would be LSD, Mushrooms. DMT, mescaline, etc. DPH is a deliriant. Other deliriants would be nutmeg and DXM(at higher doses.) (Delirium is in the name, if that's not enough warning about these drugs!) Both are subgroups of hallucinogens, but are very, very different in terms of safety and user experience. Unfortunately, to a broke, lonely, teenager deliriants are cheaper and much easier to access as OTC medications. For those who haven't done either: on LSD, for example, you are totally aware of your hallucinations and that they are fake. You also aren't seeing unicorns running around your house. Things morph and move and breathe. There's a psychedelic overlay to the world. Think of it like a filter. Maybe a cloud will take the shape of a unicorn. When it does, you ponder the meaning and history of the unicorn. On deliriants, you are unaware of your hallucinations. A unicorn appears from nothing, and it is menacing. The eyes look at you, black, hateful. You look down, scorpions are crawling up your legs. They're venomous. You try to escape, but you can't. You find zpiders cover every surface of your home, each deadly and waiting for you. You crumple into panic.

[@Based_Goddd]

Came so early my girlfriend will be upset

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Omg 💀💀🖤

[@Based_Goddd]

@@TheInternetInvestigator hey if you ever do unsolved murders look into Garret Philips from Potsdam New York. I played football with him as a kid, then he was murdered after school one day. Cops and community thought it was the only black guy in our majority white town, he was found not guilty. People speculate it was the cop his mom was dating, but can’t prove it.

[@snicker576]

😂 this joke is too relevant for me right now

[@peteneblett9344]

Upset? You mean "flattered by your compliment."

[@TheExFrenchie]

😂😂😂

[@AccidentallyOnPurpose]

As a person who struggles with a benadryl addiction I can tell you it's absolutely not worth it and can be very dangerous. I have never taken more than 200 mg of Benadryl at once though, could never imagine taking 900mg, it would probably kill a lot of people. Should also add, I don't take it hallucinate, I take it for insomnia at night and during the day for the "drugged" feeling.

[@CJ-qg7de]

It's not chemically addictive. If you want to stop taking it, you can take doxylamine, OTC drug for sleep and nausea, name brand unisom

[@ValariaJet]

Sounds awful. My condolences. I have chronic pain and ADHD so I've always had trouble with sleep. My sleep is never restorative so it doesn't matter how much I sleep, I always feel tired. Things like sleeping pills/benadryl/etc. is always tempting because it feels like an easy fix, even tho I know rationally its not going to work. Thank you for sharing your story and for giving me another reason to steer clear.

[@AccidentallyOnPurpose]

@@CJ-qg7deIt's chemically addictive in the way that if you take it every single night and suddenly stop you pretty much cannot fall asleep, but any sleep aid can do that. But I know most of my addiction is psychological, benadryl is the only drug that can kill an anxiety attack or a depressive episode for me so I always crave it because my life is terrible right now and I want to stay in that calm and unbothered feeling I get when taking it. I started with a hydroxyzine addiction before I moved to benadryl, I don't know what is worse for me tbh

[@AccidentallyOnPurpose]

@@ValariaJetYeah. Once or twice for sleep is fine, even for breakthrough allergies, but I absolutely do not recommend taking it multiple days in a row. Even in recommended doses chronic use can still cause negative side effects. Actually, if there is another drug you can take to help you besides benadryl it is always the best. I should add that you can become tolerant to it, so the doses you have to take to have the same effect increase, but it doesn't decrease the long term negative consequences of it.

[@wolfwhistlewoowoo6297]

You need to stop, you are poisoning yourself and the sleep is not quality sleep. It causes dementia due to its anticholinergic activity. Anticholinergic drugs block the effect of acetylcholine which is a key neurotransmitter in both cognitive and muscular function. Try taking the supplement acetylcholine to fix the damage; it’s a B vitamin. There are some excellent vitamins and supplements that might help your brain recover - 5HTP and a small dose of melatonin can help reregulate your sleep cycles.

[@thestreetpreacherss]

dph is some crazy shit. it was the drug used by suburban kids who couldn’t get access to anything harder at my school. i think the memeing of benadryl and the hatman makes people want to try it even though it’s not even a fun high. love ur channel! 🖤

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Are you from the US? Obviously it's been a good few years since I was in school but I never heard of kids using it here in England 🥲 Thank you! :) 🖤

[@thestreetpreacherss]

indeed, eastern US somewhat near the south.

[@faeriegraver]

The Benedryl we have over here is not the same medication as in the US. I don't know what brand name DPH goes by over here, if any, or how difficult it is to get hold of it... I assume if you can get it at all it would be by prescription and not over the counter. You can get a lot less medication over the counter over here than you can in the States. Otherwise I figured there'd 100% be kids trying it. ​@@TheInternetInvestigator

[@plants5370]

​@@faeriegraver So this isn't true at all. Codeine is sold OTC in the UK, codeine being a morphine derivative and classified as a class 5 controlled narcotic in the United States. Available only by prescription and has to be archived into a drug registry. There are many "OTC" drugs containing pseudoephedrine that are also held behind the counter, with every purchase monitored by the DEA and FDA. DPH is diphenhydramine, which is an antihistamine (allergy medicine), for the record. Sometimes it is marketed as a non habit forming sleep aid. Hope this helps!

[@insanedelirium7047]

​@@faeriegraver nytol the brand here. Not sold off the shelf like US have to ask the pharmacist behind the counter and be 18

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

I grew up with a lot of trouble sleeping due to anxiety disorder (and tbh probably undiagnosed adhd) and I used to love when I was sick and got to take Benadryl because it would make me drowsy and sleep easily. I could see how someone could get addicted even when just wanting more sleep. Because your body gets used to it and needs more and more over time.

[@HikariHolic]

i will never understand people that willingly do drugs to achieve horrifying hallucinations and effects when there's literally people out here with mental health conditions that wish their brain didn't just do that on the reg, myself included

[@piratedre4d]

You can't understand that? Weird.

[@nineteeneightynine432]

Yeah never heard of a good dhp experience. They always seem horrid. So why do people even do it

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@nineteeneightynine432 Right? I just got to the part where that woman was describing her SpO2 at just 88% with peripheral cyanosis, and my jaw dropped. Anything below 90% constitutes an emergency. And she's doing this to herself *_deliberately?!_* She seems to have some medical knowledge as well, which makes it even more baffling that she'd take this stuff.

[@highbread817]

The dph addicts are basically the horror fans of the drug addiction community However, most people don't enjoy it, but there's plenty of bored young people with no real hallucinogens to access so it's all they know

[@nightcoreeclub]

@@highbread817i’ve had traumatizing trips just using shrooms or acid lol i couldn’t imagine wanting to be trapped in a bad time

[@sethfulton7011]

i’ve had to take diphenhydramine for years to help me sleep & anytime i accidentally take too many in too short a time frame, i’m absolutely miserable. i have to pee constantly, my mouth stays dry no matter how much water i infest, it makes it impossible to fall asleep from having to move every time i’m almost comfortable, and if the dose is high enough i’ll get “the squirmies” where i physically cannot sit still. like my motor functions are impaired. and those doses are well below the lowest threshold these ppl talk about, so i can’t even imagine how uncomfortable & unpleasant it must be for them

[@WobblesandBean]

I highly recommend switching from diphenhydramine to doxylamine succinate. It's helped me sleep way better than benadryl without the bad side effects. I'm the same, I hate the "squirmies" so much. It's the same feeling of crawling out of my skin as I used to get from opiate withdrawal. It's absolutely horrible and I don't know why anyone would do that to themselves deliberately.

[@tresbonoeuf]

Taking it every day/on a regular basis still highly increases your chance of dementia later in life. It’s not meant to be taken as a daily sleep aid. Please consider asking your doctor for a prescription of a medication meant to help with insomnia.

[@proserpine3332]

Bruv ur gonna get dementia. I take seroquel in tiny doses. High doses cause tardive dyskenesia, but under around 1000 mg is fine. 25 mg will usually knock out a 6’5 260 lb male

[@Kneon_Knight]

I'd look into the frequent urination and incessant thirst with a physician. Those are symptoms of diabetes, which can kill you. As far as sleep aids go, vervain capsules, chammomile tea, and a lavender sachet in your pillow are really effective.

[@arandomidiot1593]

I'm also taking it for sleep. Some nights it doesn't even work, though. Like last night. I'm running on 0 sleep today, yay. Which is crazy, 'cause some nights it can knock me out after I've had an enormous amount of caffeine, and then some nights it just doesn't do shit. I fucking hate having insomnia. At the very least, I'm lucky enough to have never gotten side effects. Even the one time I took 3 doses in under 36 hours(I had to stop taking my prescription allergy meds temporarily so I could get an allergy test done and it was SERIOUS torture, I'm an idiot and didn't really keep track of when I took the doses- don't worry I was fine lol) I didn't have any side effects. also for the record, my doctor said if I don't take it more than 1 dose a day and twice in a week(and not two days in a row), I should be fine for the short term future. and I try to avoid taking it more than once a week.

[@ramseydoon8277]

4:45 a psychiatrist is not going to prescribe allergy medicine, they're going to refer you to your primary care provider.

[@ramseydoon8277]

@@DjDeja hydroxyzine is not the same thing as diphenhydramine. And the person in the video said their psych prescribed it specifically for allergies, there was no mention of hydroxyzine or anxiety.

[@bennygerow]

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" - Steve McCroskey, Airplane!

[@TransmissionEpicts]

This is a really dark (sometimes deep) video and comments thread, so it was nice to read something lighthearted amongst it all, made me smile. Great film!

[@capyluvr]

Just found out my flight will be delayed 16+ hours. This is a true gift to me rn

[@danpaul4975]

Flight.... Slang for "getting high"?? 😂

[@WobblesandBean]

Man....I get it. Once had my connection flight from Seattle to California delayed by 8 hours, after I'd just flown 10 hours from London to Seattle. You have my condolences. They certainly don't make airports very comfortable.

[@b33-d3g]

i have severe insomnia and yesterday my mother suggested i try benedryl to help me sleep. i know people who have done it recreationally but i didn’t know i dangerous it was. i was going to try it tonight and this video stopped me, idk if it’s an overreaction but hearing how many people started using it for sleep and knowing i have an addictive personality i’m glad this video put me off it.

[@lostsouldown]

i took a small dose given to me by a friend when i was really sick (i didnt know it was benadryl at the time) and i felt like i couldnt stand up straight and the floor was moving and it gave me a bad panic attack. wouldnt recommend

[@WobblesandBean]

I don't get why anyone would want to do this. If I take benadryl, I get extremely jittery and spastic, I can't imagine taking 30 of these things.

[@desertparanormal2791]

I go to sleep. I mean I get a little dizzy if I stay awake too long after taking it, but that's it. I can't imagine wasting my benadryl for this.

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@desertparanormal2791 Yeah it's weird, I don't know why it has the opposite effect on me. Even weirder is some brands it makes me sleepy like it's supposed to, but with others I'm crawling out of my skin.

[@slitheen3]

Some people seem to have paradoxical reactions to some drugs... I've been given things in the ER for pain that the nurse said might sedate me and I was free to go to sleep, but instead I was wide awake and chatting my mom's ear off. Same thing happened to me as a kid but idk what it was they gave me either time. I also tried out Adderall (prescribed, for adhd) and it made me so incredibly lethargic and tired that I couldn't resist the urge to just lay down and sleep. And I've heard similar stories from other people. I don't know much more about it or why it happens, but it's really interesting

[@LRsaturnine]

some people like horror movies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@asgoodasyou]

I have the same effect when I would abuse benadryl. It would give me energy and I would want to do everything even tho I could hardly think straight on it. I don't do that anymore thankfully . I've switched addictions

[@astraeastar6592]

I’ve tripped off Benadryl before and it was the worst high ever. Much like the first user I wasn’t unfamiliar with drugs, benzos. DXM, oxy, DMT, and nothing ever compared to the Benadryl trip. I felt a huge spider crawling on my face, I heard and saw people standing outside of ny front window pointing and laughing at me. I heard voices. And within in the first 30 minutes I just couldn’t walk anymore, so for hours I just laid on the couch in horror. Never ever ever again.

[@fluorescentgreys]

It’s so weird how spiders seem to be such a recurring thing in Benadryl trips

[@jawknee4088]

​@@fluorescentgreys For sure. same with the prevalence of 'jesters' on DMT. fascinating stuff.

[@Kneon_Knight]

@@fluorescentgreys They are a common feature in all bad trips. Humans have a deeply ingrained, subconscious loathing of spiders in general. But it doesn't seem to manifest until you are about 3 years old and able to walk around and get curious about the world.

[@trala8911]

@jawknee4088 And little mushroom men on shrooms

[@ktvcartoons]

Let's go Mr. Hatman!!! WOOOO!!! But seriously don't do drugs kids

[@pirate_duck4985]

I've had Shadow People/Hatman hallucinations when I had a psychotic episode. Wrote a load of weird shit on my bedroom wall, talked about opening portals to another world or timelines I think my Mum said. I do actually remember the "portals" & occasionally still see something similar? They're like kaleidoscopes, beautiful bright colours honestly but then the shit I saw after opening these portals!! Ended up sectioned for a while, doing far better now but definitely something I wouldn't purposely induce!!

[@ktvcartoons]

@@pirate_duck4985 I'm sorry that you went through that, and I'm so glad you're doing better. I find it so weird that people have so many experiences with the Hatman outside of DPH, like sleep paralysis, childhood nightmares and situations similar to yours. It's a bit too much to be a coincidence. I don't believe in the supernatural but I just find it odd and almost fascinating that the Hatman seems to repeat itself in a lot of stories. But a good theory is that a shady figure with a hat to hide it's face is a very good archetype for a villain. Anyway, again I'm glad you're feeling good. Keep taking care!

[@pirate_duck4985]

@@ktvcartoons that's why I bring it up whenever I see the hatman mentioned! It's such a bizarre thing to share across so many different forms of hallucinations. They seem to feature in just about every kind of hallucination imaginable. Admittedly I had already heard of the Hatman/Shadow People before my episode & who's to say what is & isn't influenced when these things happen! It's children that get me though, surely they haven't been exposed to the more "Cryptid" type stories at such a young age!? Perhaps just fear of a large human & you can't really tell their intentions or keep track of where they are in that moment.

[@TMMDI]

as someone currently struggling with a DPH addiction it’s so so scary how easily people can get hooked on it. A lot of these hallucination reports are exactly what I’ve hallucinated too. I only got hooked after a failed “attempt” . I cannot stress it enough that DPH trips are miserable and not fun in any way. I would never wish this onto my worst enemy.

[@ethernetangel1133]

Cant remember the order of the story but the benadryl attempted sewerslide is sus to me, specifically because OP claimed to be having respiratory depression and that the doctor responded to this with fentanyl, which no doctor would do because fentanyl is a respiratory depressant. There are other sedatives / pain meds that would have been safer. Good creative writing though, unless it all did happen and they threw in the fentanyl to make it sound more catchy.

[@Keznen]

"sewerslide" LOL

[@ctobolsk]

Glad I wasn’t the only one thinking this

[@chandlerdoeswhatifs9399]

SHE NEVER MISSES. What other channels upload this frequently with this length and quality bro? Thankyou for getting me through work TII

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thank you!! 🥰🖤

[@lindsayschmidt2177]

I’m not sure if Benadryl is available in other countries OTC like it is here in the US, I feel compelled to point out that it’s very safe in the correct dosages, and people mainly use it to treat allergies as it’s an antihistamine. These people are taking an absolutely insane amount of pills to achieve this effect.

[@notahumanbeing6892]

Just one benadryl is enough to knock me out its wild to me how anyone can even be conscious taking more 😭

[@sunday.mourning]

Apparently no amount of Benadryl is safe due to how much damage it does to the liver

[@sunday.mourning]

Technically no amount of it is safe due to it’s effects on the liver

[@fwestah]

It's sold in 50mg pills for sleep, and even 2 is enough to get me noticeably high, i wont hallucinate but will feel the circulation changes, memory loss/confusion and most physical symptoms. these are sleeping pills, and it is on the bottle to only take one but it's definitely not an insane amount if you're taking the 50mg sleep pills, which i think should maybe be regulated a little more

[@s7d788]

Yeah, it is OTC where I live. Despite having lots of allergies, I've never had it prescribed, it's not usually a doctor's first choice

[@dinomight_nxc]

I took almost every drug under the sun - literally. And DPH definitely one of the strangest drugs I’ve experienced. I saw the spiders but they are more like glitches in the system and was constantly seeing me 3 person bird view laying on my bed just watching me and everytime I open my eyes I was so shocked That I was hallucinating because it felt so real. But this was nothing compared to my DXM trip. This was just pure horror and one of the worst trips I’ve experienced.

[@piratedre4d]

How was your salvia experience?

[@dinomight_nxc]

@@piratedre4d Funny that you ask specifically about that drug because this experience was really weird as well. I Also didn’t enjoy the few times I smoked it. After I’ve inhaled the smoke I felt immediately pretty weird paired with a strong feeling of guilt, like I did something I’ve not been supposed to. It almost felt like an evil entity performed some witchcraft on me. I also felt like I was dragged in the corner of my room. There was not a lot going on visually but I was pretty stressed out on the emotional level. Thankfully, it didn’t last for a long time. I took it two times and both trips were were the same. I think the trip is very heavily tight to the dosage. I had a 25X extract. I also had a 50X extract but I was not into it trying because of my bad experiences. Anyways, someday a friend came over and I gave him the 50X it was his first time, but he was really looking forward for it. I gave him my pipe and he went in the next room for about 30-45 minutes. When he came back, he was pretty happy about the experience. So was my thoughts… after some time we were talking about that incident and then he told me that whole trip was mentally affecting him until that very day. He said when the salvia kicked in, he was seeing himself 8x standing in front of him. So basically, he was surrounded by himself. And now Comes the strange part: He said that he had to choose one of the "replicas". After he made his decision his whole being was transferred into one of the clones and the trip ended. And the part that weirded him and also me out the most was that he is until this day he is not sure if he is the same person/soul he was before smoking that stuff. so yeah pretty freaky if you ask me, so take it on your own risk! Funny thing is that it’s completely legal in the Netherlands :D

[@Transwithhands]

I worked a camp job and got hooked on it to sleep. Now I'm on meds and 2 months sober.

[@Transwithhands]

And 3 days from launching my medium page 😊❤.

[@ellena.8369]

@@Transwithhands Good on you! Seriously, I wish you well. I hope you have a support system to provide love & encouragement, and if not I'm here, a stranger, rooting for you :)

[@j.w.5788]

2 months is fantastic. You’re doing a great job. ❤

[@AleTitan]

I used to pop dextros during quarantine, but one time I tried DPH. I didn't dose high enough to trip, but just enough for ego death. It was just vomiting, diarrhea, inability to sleep and head fog the next morning. Nowadays my stomach can't handle weed edibles and my gag reflex kicks in if I try to take more than 2 pills at the time and gel caps make me gag by default. So taking medications I actually need sometimes makes me gag or feel nauseous. Stay away from drugs

[@Bummerdrummer463]

I just got dumber

[@NoOneReallySpecial]

As someone with a past eating disorder who has hEDS and IBS, so it's tough to eat or swallow things, I learned that thick stuff like yogurt/ice cream and/or milk can really help mask the pills and help you swallow them quickly. I have to take pills for my disabilities and this has been a lifesaving hack.

[@LetHimRead]

Haha yeah no. You say you did not dose high enough to trip but "only" enough for ego death. Ego death is the literal highest you can go, it is way beyond tripping. You are either lying or you mixed your dictionary around the wrong way.

[@trala8911]

I did so much of this shit in my teens. Absolutely insane. I’ve since gotten sober, but over my years I did LSD, shrooms, weed, various benzos, years of GHB,, various stims, a lot of ketamine and weed and coke, MDMA, dozens of research chemicals, heroin, crack, all sorts. DPH was easily the most intense, and the most unpleasant. It makes me really reflect on how terrible I felt to consider it preferable to reality. It’s a dissociative and a deliriant, it’s not fun. Lots of ghostly jelly spiders crawling over the walls, darkness, talking to invisible people, watching televisions that later turn out not to be on, thinking you’re smoking cigarettes and then they disappear, I kept thinking people downstairs or outside were calling out to me, but they weren’t. It’s a paranoid, dark and lonely state. You can’t sleep, you can’t stop it, a lot of people wind up in hospital or police custody, because you really can’t control your relationship with reality.

[@JLB0880]

Damn it’s wild that the LEGAL drug is the most intense out of all of them. Congratulations getting sober!

[@sm-dc7ck]

Could be wrong, but I believe many of the negative effects are related to DPH's inhibition of choline/acetylcholine. Choline (nutrient) forms acetylcholine (neurotransmitter). Choline/acetylcholine plays a key role in a ton of physiological functions like maintaining integrity of cellular membranes, clearing cholesterol from the liver (if not cleared, leads to liver disease), regulating cardiac and neuromuscular function, DNA methylation, and memory/cognitive function (just to list a few). Any positive feelings are probably sort of pseudo euphoria because your body believes it is dying.

[@eCodex]

nope! totally on point, actually. it's an intense anticholinergic; this is one of the reasons its a frontline urgent-setting treatment for certain forms of dystonia for decades now. over a decade ago in college i tried to 'trip' on benadryl and was surprised that i felt absolutely no effects [and coincidentally a brief remission of spasticies that i didnt realise at the time were from my specific flavour of undiagnosed genetic dystonia]. ETA: there are different formations of dystonia, but essentially in dopa-linked dystonias it is in part an imbalance between the dopa-receptors & the cholinergic systems that mediate the signalling within the neuromuscular system [that then cause uncontrolled spasticities]. i'm hazy on the exact mechanisms beyond that

[@_sumina]

@@eCodexit also happens with dxm

[@thriftstorepierrotdoll9851]

the last sentence of this comment is horrifying good lord

[@smedleyx]

I think I never did drugs because back when I was constantly depressed I really wanted to stay that way. Never occurred to me to try to feel better, I think I got an "anti-high" from sadness and anger. Kind of "Isolation loves Misery".

[@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

As someone who tried nutmeg once & tripped hard, i learned that if drugs have been around awhile & still arent banned, they probably arent good. Not all trips are fun. I quit getting creative after that lol...

[@rachel.mcgowan]

I did a lot of nutmeg once about 20 years ago. It was... an experience. Never felt the urge to repeat it, although it wasn't unpleasant just bizarre.

[@zombie6386]

I ate a LARGE amount of nutmeg once too, i actually quite liked the experience for the first part, until the energy wore off. Definitely not enough to start using nutmeg as a drug but was an okay experience. I felt almost euphoric and ran around for I don’t even know how long, I felt like I had all the energy in the world, I did until I fell down on the floor profusely sweating and couldn’t breathe. After that it wasn’t so fun and I was just pretty anxious and irritated and couldn’t get comfortable.

[@natk4017]

Took this to unalive myself, had the worst hallucinations ive ever had, and I've tried to unalive on many things including buspar and riddlen. Don't mess with this stuff, take my word for it.

[@natk4017]

I fr thought I was at chili's but I was in bed covered in puke n my gramma was yelling at me 😒

[@buggybuggy7620]

Taking even the normal dose of Benadryl for allergies gives me horrific nightmares. I simply cannot imagine taking 15x that for funzies 💀

[@Strawbbyyyyy]

19:52 I think I’ve felt this “creaky” feeling before, when I had to come of my anti psychotics and anti depressants because my doctor stopped taking my insurance, whenever I moved my head or my eyes it felt like a jolt of electricity shot through my head and it made it so I had to lay down for most of the day all day everyday. It was really bad but I’m back on my meds now so it went away, yippee!

[@owlbyovrprepared1128]

That also sounds similar to "brain zaps" which happen if you miss a dose or go off certain meds too quickly. I get zappy if I miss two or more days of my SNRI in a row. I wonder how similar they are in cause/if they could be the same? Not sure I want scientists to find out.

[@Strawbbyyyyy]

@@owlbyovrprepared1128 YES THATS WHAT IT IS!! I DIDNT KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE BESIDES ME AND MY FAMILY MEMBERS EXPERIENCED IT THANK YOU SO MUCH LOLOL WE ALWAYS CALL IT THE “SPARKYS” OR “CLICKYS” 😅

[@owlbyovrprepared1128]

@@Strawbbyyyyy any time! I can promise you and your family are not alone; one of my previous psychiatrists was the one that warned me so I wouldn't panic, since I have trouble remembering to take meds. It's a common side effect for some antipsychotics and antianxiety meds, some even cause it when you are off by just a few hours in dosing time. So glad you can be excited about knowing more about your experiences!

[@Nocturnal_Mee]

@@owlbyovrprepared1128 those brain zaps are the effin worst!

[@OriginalDonutposse]

Oh god. That electric shock going through your head after stopping SSRIs. I call it brain shocks or head lightning. I hate it. Wish I never tried antidepressants.

[@bostonsandatot4948]

Why would a doctor prescribe Benadryl when more effective modern allergy treatment is available?

[@WRL64]

It's an OTC (over the counter) medication in the US. You don't need an rx for it

[@ethernetangel1133]

Some prescribe it for off label uses. I work in a pharmacy and have seen it used for tremors, insomnia, minor anxiety, twitching, etc. It is a good drug if used correctly / if the patient does not have an addictive personality.

[@tresbonoeuf]

@@ethernetangel1133Even if taken as a daily sleep aid at a regular dose, one has a much higher chance of developing dementia later in life. It’s really terrible that people are being told it’s a solution for insomnia given that risk and how many other sleep aids are out there.

[@LRsaturnine]

it's cheap and well understood

[@NoOneReallySpecial]

Benadryl helps a lot with weird minor allergic reactions. I was given some by the ER when I had a moderate blueberry allergic reaction, having never been allergic before; later come to find out that only part of the "hives" on my body were hives from the allergic reaction and somehow the allergic reaction activated Shingles in me and I'm only 34. >.

[@HokeyPokey81300]

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that what a lot of these people describe experiencing after prolonged abuse of this drug is a brain injury. All of those symptoms describe to a T what it’s like to suffer from a moderate-severe concussion. I had one in the 8th grade and it took me almost 3 months to regain reading comprehension, speak without a stutter, recover my short term memory and fine motor skills. It was about 6 months before I was completely back to “normal” but there’s no real way of knowing whether that’s just a *new* normal. One of the most amazing things about the human body is our brains’ ability to recover from injuries, to adapt and find new ways to reach an improved level of functioning, they continue to heal for years after an injury, but although they’re great at recovering over time it seems rare that anyone is ever exactly the same as they were before. It’s why all of those professional football players have the emotional threshold of a thimble and become violent to their romantic partners. My brain injury made me feel like a shell of myself and barely human, it’s so depressing to think that people are intentionally subjecting themselves to this potential consequence.

[@horrorqueen3577]

I knew someone in highschool who was pretty reckless and did this and also one night took 30-35 Gravol. He was 15 doing this. I walked down to the bus stop to go to school in the morning and there he was, waiting for me crumpled up in the bus shelter. He looked a mess and I asked him what the hell is he doing here and where is Danielle (his trip partner). He told me he thinks he was R worded, and he got jumped. He told me his underwear are gone and hes in pain and there was definitely blood in that region when I looked for him. He was so messed up that someone/possibly more than 1 person robbed him, beat him up and R worded him. He was never the same after that. His trip buddy? Found drowned in someones backyard pool. Luckily, they had cameras and there was no foul play or anything- she simply entered their backyard and drowned after entering their pool cause she was so intoxicated. Ill never understand why people WANT to do this.

[@phil6899]

" My Benadryl trip report *GONE WRONG* " ...and the Award for Most Redundant Finish to a Sentence goes to...

[@ClassicHognog]

I had no idea it could get this bad. My heart goes out to all affected by DPH

[@hannahwhitney6543]

I’ve had seizures due to chronic alcoholism and an eating disorder. I can totally relate to the person who said “it’s scary not to think clearly”. Ever since my string of seizures, it takes me a lot longer to comprehend everyday things, it takes me a long time to think of simple words, and it’s almost like I can’t decipher normal social cues at times. There are other side effects but these come to mind first. It’s worse when I think how I did it to myself and this was totally avoidable.

[@MF99K]

I hate how that one long list of symptoms of repeated use is almost all stuff I also deal with as default without previous drug abuse

[@Porifera-Jaymen]

I'll never forget taking Robitussin 20 years ago thinkin it would make breathing easier during a weekend without an inhaler. Nope! Watched myself do silly things like roll around, tear up some clothes, filled a towel with urine in a spontaneous challenge not to let it drip on the carpet. Very uncomfortable with out of body experiences like that, so thankful i wasn't caught. Never again.

[@petalpotionsart]

I sadly have experience with this topic. I tried to end it when I was 15 due to struggling with chronic pain that no one believed or treated. I took half a bottle of benadryl. Roughly 50-60 pills. I was hallucinating, I was delirious, responding to people who weren't there on discord, saying bizarre statements and replying to hallucinated conversations. I was a horrible experience, honestly. I think the only reason that I survived is that I have a VERY high tolerance to medicine, I have to take a lot more than regular people to even feel it. If you are struggling, PLEASE talk to someone. Someone you know cares about you. Don't do this to yourself.

[@materhead5051]

You saved me from all the other boring stuff on KZbin. You have no idea!

[@roxyamused]

I know it sounds fucked up, but that shit at its best sounds worse than withdrawals from my heroin addiction. Out of all the alcoholism and wild drugs, I don't have any health complications like all that. Straight nightmare fuel. Seriously, I'm a 40yo loser who's been through rehab about 4 times who's done lots of drugs, and this shit is worse than anything I've done. Just go steal or pay a houseless person to get you some white claws or beer or something. Go get some fucking weed. Ffs, tachycardia and serious cognitive impairment for "hatman"? It's just sooooo duuuuuummmmmmmbbbbb... Like, can't we just let mushrooms be legal or something? Thought I'd add that the best trip I've actually had is meditating. That sounds corny af, and it is. Cringe is empty of inherent existence, just as your identity is. What is aware of experience is unreachable by any hand, but you're also always touching it. Infinitely expansive without an expanse. Emaho, it is the naked awareness before identity and thought; the hair-tip of the empty, luminous, unmanifested nectar of dharmakaya. Go search for teachers to teach you that instead of the creepy hatman.

[@luvdiacetyl]

I can indeed confirm that being high on diphenhydramine was much much worse when compared to the hell that was opioid withdrawal.

[@nightcoreeclub]

omg i saw the title and was like “what’s DPH? can’t be diphenhydramine, that’s just an allergy medication!” 😅😭😭😭😭😭😢 i assumed it was some sort of new psychedelic similar to DMT lol

[@strangecreature3793]

As someone that formerly abused Benadryl, this is terrifying

[@lillebror1567]

Hell yeah (I'm about to hear the most horrible descriptions of the human experience in my life)

[@evabeveridge9651]

Best after school special about how uncool DPH is! But for real, thanks for letting people know. I’m sure you helped someone out there with this video.

[@rebeccanrh]

I accidentally took 3 Benadryl instead of 2 and I regretted it within 20 minutes

[@witchflowers6942]

Used to do this stuff, till it got me a vacation at the hospital. Still part of the subreddit, but i have zero desire to go back there. The most under-discussed aspect of DPH is the thirst. The extreme dry-mouth is enough to make me never wanna experience it again. The trips are extremely unpleasant generally.

[@mormerill]

Not to be that guy but I definitely needed to hear these stories about how bad it is to OD on this stuff. Thank you.

[@trala8911]

Hope you’re doing okay 🙏🏻

[@bigbowlofspaghetti]

Real shit. Hearing stories about trips only gives me impulsive thoughts about trying it myself, but holy shit the OD is wild. I don’t think I’ll risk it now as the story of that guys lungs failing and having sezuires rings in the back of my head.

[@shujitsushima3]

Just started and fingers crossed that my dph trip report from 5 years ago isn't mentioned in this video

[@unknown6390]

Reddit or Erowid?

[@OriginalDonutposse]

Well, was it?

[@baileymoran8585]

You know, weed is legal or decriminalized in much of the US and I truly thought this would slow down the frequency of people using otc medicine to the point of it becoming a drug. I remember cough syrup was a big one when I was growing up. It got mixed with energy drinks or four loko if someone was REALLY looking to be stupid. I stayed away from it because my parents were realistic with me about drugs. My dad once said ‘I won’t help you get weed, and I won’t smoke it with you, but I would rather you do something low risk than use non-drugs as drugs, because that can damage your organs.’

[@Dartingleopard]

Yeah, weed isn't 100% safe, but in comparison it is way safer...

[@Angstlarry]

This was not the video to watch as I’m actively taking Benadryl for a reaction to another medication 😂

[@yynnuc]

suprised to see my old fav sub here. used to regularly post there when i frequently abused 1-5gs daily. bad times, i literally couldnt form sentences even when sober

[@stella-vu8vh]

i’m taking like 4-500mg a day tops, howd you get so bad?

[@yynnuc]

@stella-vu8vh 16-20 pills? yeah i started a little under that. dph tolerance builds fast and i just found myself adding more and more. stop while you're ahead

[@LBJshowedmehisJ]

I do not get why anyone would OD on Benadryl willingly. Even for intended use, Benadryl kind of scares me, because there are several studies linking habitual use (at intended dosages) of this drug can lead/contribute to dementia in old age.

[@battlecatnix]

I accidentally took too much once and I ended up hallucinating and having horrible anxiety, I'm extremely careful now when I take them, I never want to experience that again

[@cecea.590]

I will always be an advocate against dph because i had a huge problem with it that plagued me on and off for years. I was taking up to 20 a day 7 days a week. I would go through a 900 bottle of Benadryl in 2-3 days. It is awful. The first high was such an experience but then you never get that high again. You're chasing the high. Hence why reodsing is very common. It really damaged my eye sight and i still have some memory issues. I used to be in a constant state of psychosis. I've been clean for 3 years i think. I dont keep track because that just makes me want to take more. Now i barely ever think about except if i see a video lime this by one of my favorite creators lol What keeps away from it the most is that withdraw. Oh. M. G. That withdraw was a full week of sleeping and not being able to get out of bed. I almost lost my job because of it. I honestly don't even remember or know how i got out of bed and got to work. I actually dont remember a lot of my early 20s. I'm 27 now. We suspect my CFS is partially caused by my use. (CFS has no known cause hence why it's suspect.) It's a scary experience and can get out of hand so fast. Please don't try it and if you are taking it, try to take a step. I know its really hard to do but your health is more important than a shitty trip. And i know people will disregard this, so if you do, please just make sure you're safe. You're in a safe and comfortable place, i even recommend having a babysitter. I'm proud to be in a place where I'm not triggered by it and i don't really ever have cravings, once in a blue moon but i focus on curling my toes when i do. An urge only lasts 5 seconds (the longest 5 seconds of your life) please just try to distract yourself. You're more than some pink pills.

[@stella-vu8vh]

whats cfs

[@cecea.590]

@@stella-vu8vh chronic fatigue syndrome

[@MacayBrown]

I wish I hadn’t relapsed. I was clean and okay. I started again, I’m actually trying not to take some now.

[@cecea.590]

@@stella-vu8vh chronic fatigue syndrome

[@TheWorstPartyMember]

Waitwaitwait is THIS why I'd get sleep paralysis whenever I took Benadryl?!

[@bostonsandatot4948]

I sure am glad that I don't have a drug addiction i tell myself as I take my diabetes meds due to my eating disorder.

[@thekingslayer2178]

What do you take?

[@GiraffeLoverJen]

​@thekingslayer2178 are you asking so you can try it too?

[@thekingslayer2178]

@@GiraffeLoverJen I’m asking to make sure they’re not hurting themselves, abusing diabetic meds can have serious consequences especially if you aren’t diabetic.

[@GiraffeLoverJen]

​@thekingslayer2178 ok, I was hoping that would be your answer. I know a T1D with severe diabulimia who has suffered severe consequences and permanent health problems as a result of misusing her insulin.

[@TwiggyKeely]

My best friends brother died from a benadryl overdose :( I'm on dialysis for kidney failure so they give me 50 mg IV benadryl every treatment to manage the severe migraines that dialysis can cause, but I'm used to it so even though I get it through an IV, it doesn't even make me sleepy any more.

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

Wooo, horrifying drug rabbit hole time.

[@crocsanddocs]

When I was in middle school I tried to OD, but didn't research anything and just took like half a bottle of benadryl. Ended up waking up and throwing up in the toilet while hallucinating maggots.

[@spitandcoffee]

i’ve taken absurd amounts of benedryl to try and fight my chronic insomnia and the most i got was tingly extremities and groggy. no hallucinations outside the usual ones

[@OriginalDonutposse]

The usual amount of hallucinations is none…

[@ladylarry75]

The post that details 15 side effects, just describing my whole existence, and i've only had a regular dose of Benadryl maybe a handful of times in nearly 40 years!

[@Snoozbttn]

Actually had a Benadryl problem. So crazy.

[@ijustrealllylikecats]

My alcoholic ex husband took almost a whole bottle of benadryl (I think it was at least 30-40) because he would frequently threaten su*cide so I wouldn't leave. This was about 20 years ago and he was under the impression that benadryl was harmless and would just make him sleep. (He would frequently harm himself just badly enough to scare me, but not bad enough to do serious harm to himself) This instance though, he got a lot more than he bargained for and I had to call emergency services because he was completely delirious. I wish I could say that he learned from the experience, but he continued to do things like that until I finally got out.

[@AmbassadorCantrip]

One time I took Benadryl for chest pain that I thought was congestion on a camping trip w a friend. Ended up going between awake and asleep in lucid dreams where I was looking for help for my chest pain just to wake up and find there was nobody there. Friends mom came out to find me sobbing in bed and shaking out of confusion, after literally one lmao

[@Merrifieldsam]

Awkward! I take this sometimes to help me sleep. The psychoactive part of it never interested me so I only ever took 2 pills at most. A friend accidentally took too many (somehow) despite my repeated warnings not to. I'm not sure how one manages to accidentally over-do it when the dosage is that low (2 pills at most).

[@Jaddaprog]

I've done this. Having a conversation with a friend that isn't there is 100%. That totally happened to me

[@stolenlivespodcast]

I have a Benadryl intolerance. As a child I was given a normal dose for my age/weight. I remember seeing the walls move like waves and there were spiders covering the ceiling. I insisted on sitting on the toilet and I was just screaming because I was that scared. As an adult whenever my friends did drugs, I just remember that and nope. I’m all good.

[@nathanielduncan4692]

I loved your PSA at the end.

[@jamieweatherwalk2752]

My brother in law has a serious benadryl addiction. He's taken 90 at one time! According to him, you hallucinate. I wouldn't wake up if i took 6 of those bad boys. 2 is enough to make me sleepy within 30 minutes. I don't know HOW that man is still standing.

[@alephalpha]

It's important to educate the kids about the danger of substances without judging or moralizing. I was lucky (or wise) to stay away from "bad drugs" because I knew the risks and I didn't trust myself to not get addicted. All my friends who "tried" opiates or c*ke ended up taking it again and developed a life-long addiction to the stuff. Some even died of it. I am blessed to live somewhere where weed is legal and that's all I need. I don't even drink alcohol or beer. Informing young people about the risks of certain substances is the key. I had never heard about DPH. Thanks for this video!

[@tobeforgottenisworsethande8995]

Benadryl is a super eerie icky weird feeling and I will never do it again

[@Turbuggy]

I got a Benadryl ad after this video… 😶

[@DerangedTMNTfangirl]

So back in 2022 when I was like 15, my mental health was crap and I tried to 0d on benadryl in an attempt to irl exit game (I'm doing sm better now!) but thankfully the hallucinations I had werent as horrible as these. I saw glamrock chica dancing outside my hospital window, I kept ripping my ivs out thinking they were crystals growing out of my skin, I had to pee but my mom and nurses had to help me to the toilet which resulted in me screaming and pissing myself cause I thought I was being attacked. My mom said I would scream every few minutes, I panicked and asked where Nancy was (I dont know any nancys💀) Then I got super excited thinking that my sisters were there to visit me but my mom had to keep reminding me that they werent there. 10/10 do not recommend (like fr do not ever try this shit its never worth it. You deserve to be on this planet and you deserve to be happy)

[@OriginalDonutposse]

If you don’t know any Nancys, you are the Nancy. Just kidding kid, good on you for making it back from where you were. If nobody else has told you, stay where you’re at and never go back.

[@veki5535]

That sounds more like a Salvia trip more than DPH😅

[@kkhoshekh]

I used to take way too much Benadryl when I was in middle school because I was very fixated on recreational drugs and a friend told me that they tried it before and it was cool. I thought it would be fun. It was horrible every single time yet I still kept doing it. It genuinely makes you feel so bad like I would get VERY tired every time yet I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I tried. You do definitely hallucinate things, especially bugs, which was terrible for me. It genuinely feels like you're going through psychosis. Your mouth also gets very very dry and for me it felt like I could never drink enough water I would just constantly have a dry mouth (while also having to pee a LOT). This might be because I was so young when I did this, but I still to this day experience memory problems (at 19), hallucinations, and psychosis, which are honestly, the lesser problems that can come from this. I genuinely hope anyone who learns about DPH stays very very far away from it because it can and most likely will fuck you up.

[@EmbalmerEmi]

I've done a lot of dumb shit as a teen,I've taken up to 6 pills at a time but it never felt anything close to a high.

[@desertparanormal2791]

I get a little dizzy and woozy but I take it for sleep. It knocks me out with 4 pills lol

[@jadebirrd]

For reference, on the icu we sometimes use DPH to help patients fall asleep, they recieve 30 to 50mg (depending on whether we give it as injection into their vein or as a pill)

[@Orteal]

at the beginning of the video so far: It is really weird hearing people taking drugs to get the same hallucinations as me, I would do anything to not have these. I see “hat man”. All the time. For about 7 years I have seen this man and it is torturous. I feel like there is someone watching me all the time and I become terrified, convinced that he is going to kill me. I hear whispers around me and often ask people around me to repeat what they said and it turns out no one has spoken. When I’m by myself I hear someone calling my name and telling me to come outside. I am in the middle of nowhere and this makes me feel paranoid combined with hat man.

[@Dartingleopard]

One dose of Benadryl makes me feel awful, I won't take that stuff unless i have to.

[@willdope]

6:22 please change the batteries in your smoke alarm.

[@Ihateartichokes]

I didn’t know I.I. lives in the hood😭😭😭