Anyone here with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ever trip? What did it do to the symptoms? Did they increase? Make you go nuts? Or nothing?
well...I am affected (not severely) by ocd...And what it does for me is compulsive association thoughts, after the peak. I start associating the trip with various songs and things in life, and its for me very interesting, fullfilling, but would be very repetitive in the view of others. Also anxiety is present to some degree , as ocd is an anxiety disorder. And Id guess someone with ocd is more prone to a bad trip, if dose is large, but they are people who will really fall in love with lsd. Thats what I think.
There shouldnt be a significant problem, I tripped with a friend that has OCD and ADD and he was fine.
i have a friend with ocd who said the other night when he took three doses, he literally felt the ocd leave his mind at one point. he hasn't gone back to his habits since. but, in anotehr set and setting it could probably drive u nuts if you become focused on it i think i may have some ocd cuz last night i took a hefty dose and after the peak, like grapefruity said, i began to make compulsive associations that drove me a bit nuts. it seemed that all the philosophy i hold as true (the subjective, illusory nature of existence) applied to everything i experienced. at first ideas and realizations would come and go. but later in the trip, this way of thinking became ingrained in my mind and i would realize that that concept itself was also an illusion and getting in the way of experiencing what was in front of me. but then realizing that was just another concept... it goes on. my "high minded thinking" became another trap. for a while i was unable to let ago and allow all the experiences, whether they be visions or thoughts just happen. in truth, it was probably a result of unorganized set and setting. a difficult experienced, but i will integrate and learn from it. i would say, if you have ocd, make sure your set and setting are secure - give yourself a lot to do (music, art, go to the woods) so that once those compulsions arise, there is another experience to enjoy rather than just a long chain of thoughts or a certain action (my friend counts with his fingers)
Sorry, but I wouldn't put myself in the type of situation where I was tripping with people who have a mental illness... maybe your friend's case is slight or has some type of control over it, but I can assure you that tripping with someone who has a mental illness has a real potential to get ugly.
tell your friend to be careful. i've never tried cid but on mushrooms my ocd gets very pronounced. i associate everything way to much to be able to let go and float downstream. it even has continued very badly after i stopped doing drugs. it's something i didn't have too much of a problem with before trying drugs, but they have definitely made these associations stick in my mind. just this past weekend i had an episode (haven't done drugs in a while) where i was making all these associative thoughts in my mind constantly and i ended up having a nervous breakdown for which i now have to go see a doctor. it's a very hard thing to deal with constantly, and the drugs definitely don't help. "And the fool on the hill sees the sun going down. And the eyes in his head see the world spinning round."
i agree that its not a good idea to take a trip for fun with someone who has a slight mental illness, if thats what you want to call it. but i would argue that in the right, guided setting, LSD could help in effect cure someone suffering from ocd. when you trip, you experience all these pure, ever changing, intense sensations and if you have ocd, its easy for you to begin applying those compulsive associations to what you experience, and they may begin to whirl out of control. but in the right setting, a person with ocd could be guided to see thru their compulsions as simply thoughts and nothing else.
I wish I would have taken that into consideration, he ended up setting off the security system at my house at about three in the morning trying to go outside when I repeatedly told him not to. He does have slight control over it and it isnt that bad but I'm still never going to trip with him again after that.
well, they're currently researching the effects of psilocybin on patients with OCD.... i'm sure LSD would act fairly similarly.
i dont think it would matter too much... as long as you dont think it will effect the expirence, it most likly wont. Almost half if not all of everything is all about your sub-concious, so if you dont think of it as a problem then it wont be.
