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bestpsybeever
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Empathy overload
#23921563 - 12/13/16 01:49 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wanted to make a little post about how psychedelics have affected my ability to feel empathy.
I have always been a loving, calm, empathetic person, more so when I was younger. I feel that a children are generally more empathetic than the adults they grow up into. The same happened to me, as I grew older I grew more skeptical and sinocal, and less empathetic. That is until recently.
I have been using psychedelics for about a year now, and recently I had a slight bender of mainly DMT and shrooms. I have never packed so many trips so close together, and there have been some negative effects, as expected. Mainly some HPPD, which can be dealt with via fasting for a couple of days (yes this actually works.) but one of the most profound effects has been a gigantic increase in my ability to put myself in other's shoes.
I've mainly noticed it while watching TV or movies. I have never been one to get emotional about TV and movies, but lately I've been finding myself almost crying during any extremely happy or sad moment for any of the characters in the shows I watch.
I really enjoy being so empathetic, it makes me feel more human, and closer to myself, and it makes me feel mentally stable and heathy. (I suppose if I were going insane my ability to feel empathy would decrease.)
I know this is rather cliché since psychadelics are so widely known to enduce empathy, but I was curious if anybody else has had effects like this. Keep in mind this transformation seems to have happened in roughly a month.
Also, what's your view on the empathy, possessed by children versus adults, as well as other forms of human compassion?
-------------------- One thing I've learned. "You can turn your back on a person, but never on a drug, especially when it's waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
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ZacksJourney
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Same here. As I grew up, a lot of things happened in my life, biggest thing I guess that impacted me was the death of my father at the age of 11. My mom went through an emotional crisis and I didn't get any love that a child should get.
That made me very cynical and blocked almost all of my emotions, except anger maybe.
Shrooms made me a lot more empathetic. E.g. I saw a newspaper report the other day about a father who tried to save his son from falling down a mountain slope and they both died, and I shed a tear, which for me, it's a HUGE thing.
Children are experiencing what emotions truly are (most of the time) and when growing up they get affected by family and society giving them the impression that "feelings are for the weak".
Growing up is giving up.
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MinnesnowtaNice
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i find it ubearable at times, I just sit and think about all the terrible things that could be prevented
And how we should just help each other and love selflessly.
I do enjoy too though, I can tell you you won't stop feeling this way for a long time.
Which is a good thing.
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ZacksJourney
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MinnesnowtaNice said: i find it unbearable at times, I just sit and think about all the terrible things that could be prevented
And how we should just help each other and love selflessly.
I do enjoy too though, I can tell you you won't stop feeling this way for a long time.
Which is a good thing.
I think it is important to combine this feeling with trusting the way of nature for doing things. This way, you don't get overwhelmed. Balanced empathy.
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MinnesnowtaNice
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Quote:
ZacksJourney said:
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MinnesnowtaNice said: i find it unbearable at times, I just sit and think about all the terrible things that could be prevented
And how we should just help each other and love selflessly.
I do enjoy too though, I can tell you you won't stop feeling this way for a long time.
Which is a good thing.
I think it is important to combine this feeling with trusting the way of nature for doing things. This way, you don't get overwhelmed. Balanced empathy.
That's a nice way of looking at it.
It honestly makes me depressed a lot and my psychonaut friends and I have come to calling it the "Beautiful Curse"
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Morel Guy
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Psycadelics have a way of internalizing the external. Some internal can also be exteralized.
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Re: Empathy overload [Re: Morel Guy]
#23922054 - 12/13/16 09:45 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I didn't even know what empathy was until I started regularly doing psychedelics.
Movies are so good now.
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bestpsybeever
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Quote:
MinnesnowtaNice said: i find it ubearable at times, I just sit and think about all the terrible things that could be prevented
And how we should just help each other and love selflessly.
I do enjoy too though, I can tell you you won't stop feeling this way for a long time.
Which is a good thing.
I'm glad you say I won't stop feeling this was for a long time. I see those old bitter people who've "seen some shit" and I don't want to end up like them.
The fact that through psychedelics I am growing more empathetic as I age makes me feel like I'm winning the fight between the bad in the world and my emotional state.
I hope and believe that I and anybody else who wished to keep or build upon these fundamental human emotions is able to through these beautiful substances, meditation and well living!
-------------------- One thing I've learned. "You can turn your back on a person, but never on a drug, especially when it's waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
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