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TheOneWithFish
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Tripping while Depressed?
#23983863 - 01/05/17 12:48 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Recently I've been going through a sort've tough period in my life. Nothing too extreme or drastic, but rather have been experiencing mild depression and pessimism for the past month or two, that I can't seem to shake. Anyways, I plan on dropping acid in a couple days, (which I haven't done for a while), with the hope of trying to come to terms with my current state of existence. What are your thoughts/experiences for tripping under such circumstances?
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nothing gets me out of a funk better... just make sure you have a stable setting.
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TheOneWithFish
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Re: Tripping while Depressed? [Re: wrestler_az]
#23983878 - 01/05/17 12:53 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yea thats what Im hoping! I know having a good trip would definitely help- just a little nervous about the possibility of having a bad one and making things worse
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People have done it and do get through it just fine so I wont say you shouldn't. Maybe you should who knows? I don't really know the full extent of your situation or how pessimistic you are exactly but you can try it out and see what happens. The only thing you really need to not do is take it when you are currently feeling anxious in the present moment, if you're just going through an odd time in your life psychedelics can easily let you see the clarity and help sort things out.
I would probably recommend psilocybin or some DMT related compound over LSD though if you're depressed. Though many people claim success with using acid to combat depression I myself didn't find it so effective for that, bad or "difficult" LSD trips I find can often be quite depressing and dreary. Now my "difficult" trips on mushrooms have been transfixing, terrifying and even traumatic to some extent but never 'depressing'...never down or gloomy just intense and bizarre and I see the same for other people so I don't know if LSD-25 is really a psychedelic I would recommend for depression specifically. I know you may not being trying to "cure" anything but still, I can easily see LSD making depression worse as well as making it better. Now typically the chances of making it better greatly outweighs the chances of making it worse but still I think that risk is more there with L than with other psychedelics.
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Didn't work for me, just made things more foggy. Mindful self reflection either sober or mildly stoned worked better IMO
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https://erowid.org/psychoactives/guides/handbook_lsd25.shtml
Handbook for the therapeutic use of LSD, written by actual doctors in 1959, it is a good read and useful
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Re: Tripping while Depressed? [Re: xzylocybin]
#23983967 - 01/05/17 01:36 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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xzylocybin said: https://erowid.org/psychoactives/guides/handbook_lsd25.shtml
Handbook for the therapeutic use of LSD, written by actual doctors in 1959, it is a good read and useful
Again I'm not saying LSD can't be used that way I know all about these studies, I'm simply saying that the DMT related compounds and natural tryptamines seem to be more effective. LSD in and of itself I find can be depressing at times, it isn't so black and white. Of course it's a great therapeutic tool, I just find it's best or better used for things like drug addiction, facilitating introspection, cluster headaches and end of life anxiety.
But I say leave things like depression, PTSD and maybe even personality disorders to things like mushrooms and the other natural tryptamines. Both are great for end of life anxiety however, it's just the depression thing that's different.
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TheOneWithFish said: Recently I've been going through a sort've tough period in my life. Nothing too extreme or drastic, but rather have been experiencing mild depression and pessimism for the past month or two, that I can't seem to shake. Anyways, I plan on dropping acid in a couple days, (which I haven't done for a while), with the hope of trying to come to terms with my current state of existence. What are your thoughts/experiences for tripping under such circumstances? 
Hit it hard and you'll realize there's no reason for you to be depressed at all.
I've always said though if I were to die I'd want to be on mushrooms, so the transition was easier.
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I agree, mushrooms most of the time have a positive effect on my anxiety/depression whereas in my experience LSD has exacerbated these problems if I am experiencing them before the trip.
I think LSD can be hugely beneficial if used correctly, but most users are not using it this way
mushrooms end up helping me (whether a little or a lot) no matter what my mental state going in is, not to say it isn't painful when it is happening.
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Re: Tripping while Depressed? [Re: xzylocybin]
#23984823 - 01/05/17 06:44 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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tripping is the only thing that ever gets me to appreciate life, i have been so stressed i am scared of tripping right now, although i know it will be just right and what i need when i ball up and drop.
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Shrooms have more than once brought me out of the depths of hardcore depression. There is probably i good chance i would have hung myself years ago when i was at my lowest, otherwise.
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I agree, they teach you not to fear death and to appreciate life at the same time. And also give you pointers on how to navigate life more efficiently.
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OP, i've eaten acid and had it make me worse, and i've had it lift my spirits. same with mushrooms... it really depends on what's going on in your head and your life, and only you can really make that decision at the end of the day.
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Re: Tripping while Depressed? [Re: 404]
#23984908 - 01/05/17 07:16 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I recently was feeling underneath a cloud of depression for 7 months that really made me feel like I didn't exist.
My roommate got us some shrooms and I was unbelievably hesitant. But of course, took a heavy dose and I began seeing the root of my problems. Tremendous experience, because I saw my issues, but I was also given a solution. I was shown an image of my self who enabled the solutions.
Really was powerful stuff. Had water running down my face multiple times. Haha! That was a month ago and I've taken huge steps towards that image of a more confident self.
Good luck op, I think low points are the best times to trip. There is a huge benefit from seeing yourself from a different angle. Peace.
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Everbody's different, but personally my best trips always came when things were looking up and not down.
Things are so magnified in the midst of a trip. And that obviously goes for what kind of emotional state you're in.
Whenever I've been depressed and tripped, it always just magnifies it. Ditto when things are on the up.
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Re: Tripping while Depressed? [Re: Niffla]
#23985619 - 01/06/17 01:02 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I am with the group that says do it.....for what its worth mushrooms are what have always brought me to my knees and held a mental gun to my head and forced me to really see things for how they are....in a good way
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TheOneWithFish said: Recently I've been going through a sort've tough period in my life. Nothing too extreme or drastic, but rather have been experiencing mild depression and pessimism for the past month or two, that I can't seem to shake. Anyways, I plan on dropping acid in a couple days, (which I haven't done for a while), with the hope of trying to come to terms with my current state of existence. What are your thoughts/experiences for tripping under such circumstances? 
Sounds like relatively normal depression. I'd say you stand to learn alot. But plan your shit out. And have a back up plan. Have good tunes picked out and maybe something visual to occupy you, movies can be good.
There is alot you can get out of it but alot of people that have bad trips and come out of it with bad after effects didn't have any guide or back up plan. But you should be okay, doesn't sound like there's underlying mental illnees or anything deeply dark and screwed that with throw you off. If anything you're likely to go into your own little dark depths and to help iron out your perspective.
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