I don't know why people ignore these warnings. Nootropics are an endless journey of side effects.
I've tried some of the nootropics, like so many other without any negative side-effect. But the positives not that much either worth the ongoing efforts.
Guess most here differentiate between nootropics on the one hand -, and stimulants or psychopharmaceuticals on the other. I think you're mixing these two up is the most dangerous thing.
I remember in my youth I was warned the hemp would be as dangerous as heroin. Then it becomes only logical after trying hemp and finding it in really harmless, to also try heroin - with all its tire consequences. Even today some would want to convince me, that hemp would cause schizophrenia in many of their clients - without differentiating a possible cause with a much more likely mere association with self-medication.
Due to a failing medical system, when it comes to chronic conditions, self-medication has become the norm. Just because self-medicates would try anything: vitamins, minerals, amino acids, meditation, nootropics, alcohol, stimulants, psychopharmaceuticals or research chemicals and methods - it does no good at all to not differentiate in each individual case or substance/method.
Once I did a lot of rigorous 10-day vipassana retreats. Though they really helped me, I also observed quite a few who right after such a first retreat ended up in a mental hospital and/or medication. Same here, there must have been vulnerabilities and the attempt to self-medicate with retreats. Otherwise everyone (especially me, who ended up practicing 2 years in a Buddhist monastery) would have become schizophrenic and on medication. Which is not the case at all, just as with nootropics.
And it would be just as silly to title a thread like yours:
Top Importance - Meditation Damage [WARNING] To All Users
..because most are helped with Meditation and real Nootropics - but with a very few there is a association with damage, also associated with other vulnerabilities not sorted out.
I the case of meditation it would be responsible to screen for such vulnerabilities beforehand by those organizing.
And real nootropics should be clearly differentiated from psychopharmaceuticals with bad side-effects.
Edited by pamojja, 27 March 2016 - 12:05 PM.