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[Yoink]

I have a WTF, something I came across on Reddit just before, but I'm not sure if it might be considered NSFL or something.
Since just saying this would be basically teasing and y'all would probably get mad at me for it, I think I will post it anyway, but in a spoiler - and I might even put some content warnings on it, an extraordinary step for someone who thinks such things are highly silly.   
Editor's note: I decided the Terrified thread would be a better fit.   


NOTE: I feel like I should mention that it's entirely possible that this is all a hoax. I saw at least a few posters on Reddit putting forth such a hypothesis - as much as his recent posts seemed to lend credence to the whole thing, at least one person pointed out some inconsistencies that might lead one to believe the whole account was a troll leading up to this.
Let's hope so.

This whole story's kinda depressing, I can't honestly recommend reading it. *shrug*

Spoiler: c/w: suicide and drug abuse (click to show/hide)

Came across a cross-post from a subreddit dedicated to Diphenhydramine, which is the active ingredient in drugs like Benadryl, which I have lately learned is a really unpleasant psychedelic(?) when abused. Like, I won't go into detail about this stuff, but most everyone I've seen talk about it agrees that abusing it is a pretty terrible idea.   

Anyway, the post in question was from some guy with a very troubled posting history and, apparently, lifelong depression.
I didn't actually see the post's content as it had been deleted, but apparently the guy took a well-above-lethal dose of the stuff. He'd also been posting on various suicide-related subreddits (which I didn't know was a thing until today, jeez, that's a wtf in its own right), detailing his intent to top himself, so the lethal dose was hardly accidental. As a sidenote, I saw someone mention that the guy had said his plan was for his mortal remains to go months before being found.     
Lots of comments on both posts by freaked-out redditors voicing their hope that he was okay, that somebody had found him in time, that sorta thing.

Now, all of that is very sad, but the real WTF is still to come. One thing that was included in that last post of his (which was wryly titled as a "trip report") was his choice of music, an album he'd placed on repeat to act as a soundtrack to his shuffle from the mortal coil.
As if dying via Benadryl overdose wouldn't already be horrible enough, this guy allegedly did so to the soothing tones of a rather terrifying noise band known as Naked City. Their final album, Absinthe, to be specific.
I don't know if y'all know, but when in the grips of most hallucinogens, music tends to have a strong effect on ones mental state. Hell, even the most innocent of tunes can become a stifling nightmare that has you clawing for the pause button - and from what I've heard of this particular drug, I can only imagine it would be 100 times worse, considering the baseline for its effects is terrifying (and vivid!) hallucinations.   
Not only is your body shutting down in real-time as your mind turns itself inside-out trying to tell what's real and what isn't, your mortal terror is accentuated by what's best described as the soundtrack to pure insanity.

As someone said on the reddit thread, "...this dude did everything in his power to make sure he went out in the scariest, most fucked up way possible".
Again, hopefully the whole account was just an elaborate hoax, but I guess there's really no way of knowing otherwise.   

   

Don't do Benadryl, kids. I mean, unless you're using it within the recommended dosage to combat allergies or as a sleep aid, I guess.   

[Iduno]

Don't do Benadryl, kids. I mean, unless you're using it within the recommended dosage to combat allergies or as a sleep aid, I guess.   

I remember the feeling of having caffeine when I woke up from a night of sleep provided by Benadryl. You can feel your brain trying to wake up and go to sleep at the same time.

[Kagus]

There's a subreddit for everything.


Everything.

[Reelya]

But is there a subreddit for all subreddits which don't contain themselves?

[dragdeler]

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[ChairmanPoo]

🤔  I've heard about people trying to get high with antihystamines... tbh I always found it desperate more than anything.


Come to think of it, I think most attempts at getting high with prescription drugs stink of desperation in general.  In many of those I don't even know how people get high with them in the first place 🤔

[Reelya]

Even more than the desperate things teenagers are willing to get high on, there are even more things the media is desperate for you to believe teenagers are willing to get high on. Jenkem. Basically you shit in a bucket and cover it with a plastic bag then a few weeks later you huff the fumes. It was a thing among some homeless orphan kids in some African country who lived near a sewage outflow, but the American media bought into the idea that American kids are pooping in buckets and fermenting it in order to get high weeks later.

[scriver]

Why would they do that when they can just huff gasoline like the kids in [nearby, competitive town] do?

[TamerVirus]

I wonder if there's a newspaper specifically for fans of huffing

[Iduno]

IDK Yoink, it's glum but I can respect it... Like... I allways wondered why people only opt for one technique... Might as well swallow a lethal dose, then jump from a bridge and shoot yourself in mid-air if you really really mean it.

I assume it's because they're depressed. Depressed people have almost zero energy and zero motivation.

🤔  I've heard about people trying to get high with antihystamines... tbh I always found it desperate more than anything.

I've heard of people using a bag of sliced bread as a filter to take the methanol out of mouthwash so you wouldn't die if you drank it. That seems like more cost and effort than just buying booze, but if nobody will sell to you, maybe?

Even more than the desperate things teenagers are willing to get high on, there are even more things the media is desperate for you to believe teenagers are willing to get high on. Jenkem. Basically you shit in a bucket and cover it with a plastic bag then a few weeks later you huff the fumes. It was a thing among some homeless orphan kids in some African country who lived near a sewage outflow, but the American media bought into the idea that American kids are pooping in buckets and fermenting it in order to get high weeks later.

Wasn't that a thing Warren Ellis made up as an example stupid thing that people would actually believe existed? If you make it about a poor foreign country, people will just assume it's true. There's nothing in poop that can ferment into any sort of intoxicant, unless you have some weird disease that makes you poop sugar, and also you're eating enough sugar for it to be in fermentable quantities after you've eaten it. At that point, you would just put the sugar into the bucket.

I wonder if there's a newspaper specifically for fans of huffing

Huffing anything that can get you high also usually does long-term brain damage.

[Kagus]

There's nothing in poop that can ferment into any sort of intoxicant

Human poop, sure. Brahmin poop, on the other hand...

[ChairmanPoo]

I've heard of people using a bag of sliced bread as a filter to take the methanol out of mouthwash so you wouldn't die if you drank it. That seems like more cost and effort than just buying booze, but if nobody will sell to you, maybe?

I don't think mouthwash has methanol. So your friend is in luck because I don't think you can filter it out with sliced bread either 🤣🤣

[Arx]

Certainly I've heard of that trick being used for methylated spirits, which you at least used to be able to buy in any hardware shop around here.

[Eric Blank]

I actually noticed recently many of the extracted flavors (like vanilla, almond etc) include up to 32% alcohol. Probably a good thing most people never read the ingredients lists on food products, or kids would be chugging pecan shots. Don't have to show ID for those

[Rolan7]

Chugging vanilla extract to get buzzed sounds... expensive.