HPPD after first solo XTC trip am scared as hell and not sure what to do

Hey everyone,
So this was my first solo trip and honestly it scared the absolute shit out of me. I took around 340 mg of XTC and while I was high I started hallucinating like crazy. I saw spiders crawling through the air towards me before dissapearing in a puff of smoke, dreamy blue ones on the walls, and bugs everywhere if I stared too long

At one point there was a shadow figure behind a beam in my room. This was about 4/5 hours in the high and at this point is was still aware that I was hallucinating but my high ass though it was cool...

The next morning I woke up and saw a crow on my window ledge. That was the only nice part ig looked pretty. Then I started seeing people standing on the roof and in the forest near my house. None of them were real but looked like real people undistinguishable form reality. I even saw a girl with long ginger curls and no face. My parents could not see any of it. I went to the hospital and the hyper-real stuff went away, but since then I still see faint distortions where the spiders used to be. Like blueish flickers or crawling patterns in the corners of my vision. Note this only happends in my bedroom where I took the pills.

It has been three months and I honestly have no idea how to proceed and sleep in my parents room, am still scared shitless of even entering my room. I have read about HPPD but psychiatrists in my area have years-long queues. I have been clean since the trip, sleeping and eating okay, but the visuals are still there and it freaks me out sometimes.

Has anyone else had lingering visuals after XTC like this? Did they fade over time? Any advice on how to handle it until I can see a professional would honestly mean a lot to me.

Maybe important instead of a slow come on this hit me like a bus.

Cheers

Posted Oct 10, 2025, 7:23 PM UTC

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