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Chemical Sandman
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Re: social anxiety and fear of confrontation [Re: jben]
#12318193 - 04/02/10 02:25 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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jben said: If you can't handle weed, you won't be able to handle anything more mind altering, at least until you are in a better place in your life.
As for the quel, get off that shit brotha, its dangerous stuff, as any pharmies can be, expecially benzos.... sure it helps you for awhile, but learn to control the problem on your own without the help of drugs, or you'll be sorry when you quit the drugs.
ALso, alcohol is possibly the best way to kill anxiety, but like I said, getting hooked and trying to quit booze can be hard.
I think its safer to drink 2 beers everynight, than take that god aweful quel
my 2cents
with ya all the way brother.
-------------------- "It's that in me there is no sorcery, there is no anger, there are no lies. Because I don't have garbage, I don't have dust. The sickness comes out if the sick vomit. They vomit the sickness. They vomit because the mushrooms want them to. If the sick don't vomit, I vomit. I vomit for them and in that way the malady is expelled. The mushrooms have power because they are the flesh of God. And those that believe are healed. Those that do not believe are not healed."(Maria Sabina) "Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source . . . They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres." (Albert Einstein)
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sporexjack
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Re: social anxiety and fear of confrontation [Re: thedudeman]
#12319266 - 04/02/10 05:22 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Like others have said, Dudeman, be very, very careful. IMHO you should not try it unless you've got someone who knows you well who's willing to sit with you. Even then I would caution against it.
It's my opinion that psychedelics (well, most any psychoactive drug for that matter) can be great entertainment and possibly even enlightening if and only if you have a strong sense of self and a fairly robust state of mental health going in. Otherwise you are really playing with fire.
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murrtheblur
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Re: social anxiety and fear of confrontation [Re: sporexjack]
#12319313 - 04/02/10 05:32 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah if your going to dose do it someone who you trust, and in a place where the environment can be controlled (people showing up, light level, music, temp, stuff like that), turn off your phone, and start with a low dose really not more than 1/2 of an eighth, but you have to know yourself and be able to be safe if you do dose, be careful and I hope the mushrooms help you. ~blur~
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solstice
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Re: social anxiety and fear of confrontation [Re: mrblonde]
#12319645 - 04/02/10 06:42 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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mrblonde said:
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thedudeman said: so i am a very anxious person, i have a fear of confrontation, and am very reluctant to be social with people, although i do enjoy it actually getting myself to do it is a bit hard for me, i am very fearful of confrontation, i don't like it, it just is not my thing, and i am on 50 mg of seroquel every night for panic and to help my dillusional thoughts that come from anxiety, so anyways, i was wondering if tripping would help this or exasperate this? ive heard of people becoming much more comfortable with their anxietys due to tripping, but ive never really heard of someones anxietys getting worse from it i can take alcohol ok, and obviously seroquel is fine for panic, but i cant smoke weed, after getting addicted i just cant smoke it it fucks with my head, but id like to experience psyches, although would really not like to have another unpleasant trip like i had some months back, which i probably took way to much, considering it was like my first time tripping pretty much and i took an 8th of gold caps, i dont remember if i posted about this before, but id like to know if others deal with anxiety on this board and still trip safely?
I agree with others that you're gonna want to figure out a way through this so you won't have to take medication to get through life. I think you could handle mushrooms as long as you are in a controlled environment where you won't have to worry about anything.
But, for dealing with social anxiety, mushrooms are the wrong substance. I think you should be doing MDMA as soon as you can get your hands on some that you know is good. I challenge you to go out into a social environment while on MDMA and try to make yourself feel anxious...you can't do it! If you are self reflective you can learn from this, and the lessons can last longer than the trip.
Let me disagree here. Not for the sake of it but because I began experiencing weird social anxiety syndromes since last time I did exstasy. It's almost been a year and I'm still in the process of overcoming this problem that surfaced after taking e. I stay, stick with plants.
Of course the syndrome I'm talking about didn't surface while I was tripping, it began the week after and still, almost one year later, I'm still struggling to over come this. Some things fuck with your brain chemistry...
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iluvfungi


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Re: social anxiety and fear of confrontation [Re: solstice]
#12319746 - 04/02/10 07:06 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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After I do most psychedelics, instead of being the mostly quite person I am, only taking to people I work with or know extremely well; I will go into a bar and talk to everyone.
When I'm sober I only will talk to selected few that I actually want to talk with(get it)? The reason why you have social aniexty is most likely because you don't like most people. Period.
That isn't really a bad thing either, as most people have worthless things to say and are a complete waste of your time.
You hear what you want to hear, you see what you want to see and you talk to whom you wish to talk too.
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solstice
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Re: social anxiety and fear of confrontation [Re: iluvfungi]
#12320389 - 04/02/10 09:21 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Was that directed at me? Cause it was dead on!
-------------------- Man woke up in a world he did not understand and that is why he tries to interpret it - Carl Jung
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TheMerryGangster
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Re: social anxiety and fear of confrontation [Re: solstice]
#12320715 - 04/02/10 10:26 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Mushrooms are an extremely useful and powerful tool. I met someone at school who was much like you and he tripped with me once and didn't enjoy himself. I made sure he didn't lose it but he made sure it was clear he wasn't feeling like it was a good trip. He asked me to let him try it one more time at a music festival, and he's a notoriously socially anxious person and despite my apprehension I dosed him. It appeared as if the same thing was going to happen then I pulled him aside and broke everything down for him. I told him he was surrounded by love, you have to let go and be free, we're all friends and family here, release all your worries and just feel for once. Flow with everything. He ended up absorbing it and realizing what was really going on. He danced the night away with us .
He has never been the same since, and I mean that in a good way. He is meeting more and more people at school and I've never seen someone who seems so on top of the world and high on life. Just an awesome turn around. Just wanted to share this story with you.
Personally, I think mushrooms are perfect for this.
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PeterGriffin467
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I love mushrooms because if you grow your own cubes you pretty much have nothing to realy worry about during your trip. With shrooms you absolutely know that you cannot die unlike dosing other things that can be passed off as something else. Theres never that apprehension "was that actualy acid I took or some dangerous RC?"
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weshroom



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TheMerryGangster said: Mushrooms are an extremely useful and powerful tool. I met someone at school who was much like you and he tripped with me once and didn't enjoy himself. I made sure he didn't lose it but he made sure it was clear he wasn't feeling like it was a good trip. He asked me to let him try it one more time at a music festival, and he's a notoriously socially anxious person and despite my apprehension I dosed him. It appeared as if the same thing was going to happen then I pulled him aside and broke everything down for him. I told him he was surrounded by love, you have to let go and be free, we're all friends and family here, release all your worries and just feel for once. Flow with everything. He ended up absorbing it and realizing what was really going on. He danced the night away with us .
He has never been the same since, and I mean that in a good way. He is meeting more and more people at school and I've never seen someone who seems so on top of the world and high on life. Just an awesome turn around. Just wanted to share this story with you.
Personally, I think mushrooms are perfect for this.
Ohh man thats so awesome!!! Just great. +5
And to OP, I say do it man. It can be a great help, and just treat it with the needed respect and thats all you can do.
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