Flashbacks occur differently in different people and as the result of use of marijuana and other drugs as well as LSD. Flashbacks may correspond in detail or only grossly to original experience and may be pleasurable or threatening and frightening. Client may present as reexperiencing frightening experience, anxious about inability to control the phenomenon, or as fearful he is “going crazy” due to interpretation of the reaction as a sign of mental deterioration. Case reports characterize these differences. Treatment is discussed briefly.
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