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I am wondering how you feel HPPD has effect your state of conciousness. Since most of us have contracted HPPD through drug use, I'm sure we all know what it is like to feel high. Do you ever feel like HPPD has caused you to be permenantly high, or permenantly altered your state of consciousness? If all of your emotional and visua symptoms were to dissapear, would you still have HPPD?

Surely some medications have more of a mental effect then others. Thanks for the reply, I was hoping some medications would have more of a direct effect on mental clarity. Yes I can relate somewhat to your problem with envisioning things spatially. I am sceptical that benzo's would have a beneficial effect on mental clarity, maybe if taken in moderation they could help, but I don't believe becoming a "benzo zombie" will be very effective! What type of meditation are you practicing? I am definately willing to try this. Also, how did you learn to meditate?

Today is my two year anniversary of contracting HPPD. Through continued reckless behaivor and drug consumption in the first year, I managed to make it significantly worse. I have obstained from drug use for one year now and will never consume anything ever again. Anyways I'm 18 and about to go into college to become an Aerospace Engineer, and I'm considering treatment. I have an array of visual symptoms ( Visual Snow, Floaters, After Glows, Tracers, Percieved motion of stationary objects, etc) The visual symptoms are not bothersome to me. I hate the mental symptoms. I'm not talking about depression, and panic attacks. What really bothers me is constantly feeling "high", and thinking "high". I feel like HPPD has limited my mental capacity to think critically, do mathematics, and analyse information. In my classes I have had to work extremely hard to do things that came fairly easy to me before I had HPPD. I have had to do the same problem sets 3 or 4 times just to be able to do decent on exams. I am looking for a medication that will remove this mental cloudy-nes and give me a better sense of mental clarity. Do any of the current treatment options work well for this? From your experience what has improved mental clarity? Thank you all for your help and support!