PCP gets an unjustly bad rap. Most people would be quite surprised to find out it's quite similar to Ketamine, a drug that many don't hesitate to party with and has recently shown positive results for treating depression.

"PCP makes you feel invincible and violent" is an urban myth -- one that Ketamine somehow doesn't share, despite its great similarity to PCP.

Of all drugs, the one most strongly associated with violence is alcohol. Yet hundreds of millions if not billions of people think nothing of using it at parties, bars, at home with their family, in front of their kids, etc. -- often with disastrous results -- yet it's perfectly legal.

That is one of those "most villified drugs" from drug education in the mid-80's through the early 90's. Now, I haven't met very many people that have done PCP (as opposed to things like LSD, MDMA, and cocaine, for example)... but they've never described it like you do. It isn't hard to imagine that since the drug education deceptively describes LSD, MDMA, and cocaine, that they'd be deceptive on this one. I've always guessed these sorts of stories were outliers: They might have happened once, and it is good to know there is some slim chance of weird reactions, but definitely wouldn't be a common thing.