The last few days have been interesting for me.

A close friend has been sectioned under the mental health act. Basically, he took a trip about nine days ago, and hasn't come back. He's suffering from paranoid delusions, and his behaviour is illogical and bizarre. The trip he took was definitely the trigger, before that evening he was fine.

Background - the drug he took that tipped him over the edge is called 2-CB. I've never taken this, although I've once taken 2-CE, which is similar. He's also been smoking a lot of DMT over the last 6 months or so. This is something I've done twice, and it's not something I would do on a regular basis. It's potent stuff, and it's come as a surprise to find out just how much he'd been smoking the stuff. I guess I naively thought he knew what he was doing.

His gf is one of my closest friends, she's the reason I'm friends with this guy. He's been living with his gf for a good few years, currently with his gf's parents in the family home. Although he's very welcome there and should not feel this way, he feels worthless because he's living with his gf's folks at 26. He's a very intelligent guy, one of the few people in my circle that I consider significantly more intelligent than myself.

So mentally he's not been in a great palce for at least a year, and he's been regularly taking powerful drugs. Although noone saw this coming, and it's come as quite a shock to us all, the warning signs were there and it's fair to say a few of us feel pretty bad right now.

As far as I'm aware, there is no history of mental ilness in his family, and he has shown no obvious signs of psychosis or paranoid delusions in the past.

Do any of you guys have experience with substance-induced pyschosis? Is this something that people tend to snap out of? And if not, is it something that can be controlled so my friend can resume something nearing a normal life? We're obviously pretty worried right now.