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LSD and elevated stress level afterwards
#27041562 - 11/16/20 03:49 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hello there. Seems like my post never made it to the board. Trying again.
Hey there. New to the forum. Male, 38 yrs old. Having bipolar 2, diagnosed at 30 yrs old. Fully functional and without episodes for 2 years. Doing workout, meditation, barely drink alcohol and taking good care of myself in general. Have had therapy for many years but some stuff haven't got sorted out.
Earlier this year I had my first psychedelic experience. I did 120ug LSD at three ocassions over the course of 4 months, with a sober and experienced sitter. Good sets & settings. It was among the most important experiences of my life and I can honestly say it was life transforming. The trips had ups and downs but over all magnificent, and left a significant positive change mentally, on a very deep level. And it's stayed that way, even now 4-5 months later.
However, one thing has been bothering me a bit. It seems that after a couple of weeks after each trip my stress levels in my body went up and I had a hard time relaxing and had higher heartrate than usual. It may be anecdotal and other things in life could of course cause that too. I'm sensitive to stress in general. Small things can trigger it.
Has anybody else experienced higher stress-levels afterwards?
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: Ocean Music]
#27041622 - 11/16/20 05:31 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I tend to have some high stress levels in the weeks after a breakthrough DMT trip. In my experience it has always meant I just hadn't taken enough time to sit and think it all through. You might just need to meditate on the experience more in the days afterwards to fully come to terms with everything.
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: Ocean Music]
#27043939 - 11/17/20 02:05 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yes, I understand what you are saying. Individuals who are reflective of the people and immediate environment around them can easily become stressed out. Or - if you are carrying a heavy load - knowing that humanity's collective consciousness went down the toilet ethically - long before we were ever born - that stuff can dig into you and feel like it's eating at 'ya.
Maybe take some time oof. Process any info left to process in the context of: 1. What is it that is in the stress? 2. Can you actually change that stuff, or are you in a situation where you can only accept those stress factors as part of life? 3. If you can address it, or pieces of it, what practicle, do-able steps could you take to ethically lighten the load - or atleast ethically confront it?
Edited by Study The CNS (11/17/20 02:06 PM)
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: Study The CNS]
#27044244 - 11/17/20 04:59 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Humanities collective ethical consciousness never climbed out of the toilet, we have been killing, raping, plundering and enslaving each other since Og picked up a bigger stick than Ug had. Everything is just more interconnected now so it's a larger scale and easier to perceive.
Everything is normal. No need to worry.
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: Northerner]
#27046324 - 11/18/20 08:09 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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This has only happened once after a 200 microgram trip. I noticed I was a little bit irritable towards my roommate. Small things would agitate the shit out of me.
I fixed this by seeing my acupuncturist and telling him about my moods after my trip (he's a cool acupuncturist and has done acid and mushrooms himself and understands the psychedelic godhead) and he did his work with the needles and I haven't had irritability after a trip since then. 200ug is a little bit of a higher dose though and my doses since then have not gone above 100ug.
I'm also bipolar type 2. I'm not sure if my irritability was dose-related or set and setting related because half of that trip was spent wishing I took less acid. It was really strong for me.
Try acupuncture. Get a general session with focus on mood at least twice a month. I love getting acupuncture. It makes me feel like a new person.
Community acupuncturists will be more affordable than a traditional acupuncturist.
Edited by OutsideOfMyMind (11/18/20 08:11 PM)
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: Ocean Music]
#27046631 - 11/19/20 12:38 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's normal for most psychs, OP. You're stretching your consciousness like a muscle, and that requires recovery. This manifests as unease, because you use your brain/mind complex essentially constantly while in the waking state. It'll calm down like DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness; you're sore about a day AFTER a gym session); same thing, but with consciousness instead of physical muscles .
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: Ocean Music]
#27046703 - 11/19/20 02:30 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Never really had that happen. I tend to feel out of it the next day after a lysergamide, the classic lysgeramide hang over that's been known about forever, but after that I tend to feel fine. I might be a little irrational, but I've never felt stressed out or had an elevated stress level after LSD. If anything, I tend to be exhausted the next day, quite the opposite of stressed.
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: Ocean Music]
#27047099 - 11/19/20 10:45 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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when you acclimatize to your psychedelic state, i.e when you get into the groove, there is a kind of evenness settling in - this happens even while in motion, even if your motion is just breathing, or the movement of a single finger: everything seems in its rightful place and sequence.
as the psychedelic state fades, the feelings of everything being in it's rightful place is gone, and due to your senses coming more awake, you are more likely to be aware of things shifting around than you were before tripping - from paying better attention to yourself and the world.
So yes, expect some of that stress, until you get on top of relaxing better through your day. you are just picking up more signals, and more noise, and you do not have to react to everything.
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Re: LSD and elevated stress level afterwards [Re: redgreenvines]
#27047564 - 11/19/20 03:31 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks you guys for responding.
I have to add that I've always been sensitive to alcohol and medications. I'm a sensitive guy. So I guess being hungover after a very intense trip is not so unusual. It's just that it went on for a little longer than I wished.
It's interesting because even though the stressy feeling a time afterwards, it's been quieter in my head than usual after the first trip. A lot of the buzz that's been plauging me for many years really started to calm down. Meditation improved significantly. Creativity came back.
The stress I've experienced has been physical, some palpitation at times and over all tension in my body It comes after like 2-3 weeks. And it makes me easily irritated and get anxiety more easily. But still though, I have this year begun to show love towards myself in a way I never thought possible. I've begun looking at my life from new, better, perspectives. I've cried, laughed and reconciled with so much past pain in my life. I guess it has it's cost. "Stretching your consciousness" was a good analagy, Loaded Shaman.
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