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    1 year ago

    And it also is a derailant and can make you see spiders on your skin and shadow people stalking you!

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        1 year ago

        Just anecdotaly my dad is/was having some health problems. he got to the point he couldn’t carry a conversation and couldn’t walk in a straight line without falling over.

        He finally told me he was taking benadryl packaged as one of the OTC sleep aids, but taking it nightly for months or years. Once me and his doctor convinced him to stop he improved like 400x better within two weeks. He never noticed a difference.

        I only knew it was a problem because I took large doses in highschool and his symptoms seemed similar once I could connect the dots.

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          1 year ago

          That’s crazy, but I’m not surprised. Benadryl is fucking poison. It sickens me when I hear of parents giving it to their children just to make them fall asleep. I had an ex who’s mom would give her large doses every night just so she wouldn’t have to deal with her. She said she often saw shadow people her entire childhood. I’m convinced benadryl played a large role in her developing BPD.

          That and growing up on the internet is really changing the way kids brains develop. Personality disorders are becoming extremely common. Humans are just different than they used to be.