SSRI's Fuckin up My trips?

Hey!

Yeah well I take an anti depressant called Cipralex. Or escitalopram. And well since I take them I have had 2 mushroom trips.

My visuals feel like I have taken some shady psychedelic like 5 meo amt or sometn...Comon i know mushrooms , natural, perfect visuals. Now its like unpatterned visuals without the hints of Balumba the healer, as I call him. The first trip I though the shrooms had gone bad. Everything was moving in super fast motion peoples heads transofrmed into demons and shit, it was kinda scary but i know it wasnt just a bad trip.

I just took some again a few nights ago and it was the same. I just took less


Does anybody know if SSRI's can have great effects on visuals, or the trip itself...not that it wasnt strong it was just real messy.

 

ok I know ssri and psychedelic interaction is perhaps the most boring topic in the universe but i need help

 

Yeah grapefruity anti-deppressants (MAOIs) can fuck a mushroom trip up massively as you obviously have found out.

 

heheh they are ssri not maoi but anyways...

do i stop takin em to trip? bahhhh

 

You really shouldn't play around with an ssri schedule. I was recently prescribed one as well, have not tripped since but will keep you in mind and I'll let you know if I have any similar troubles. I'm hoping it won't interfere at all though.

 

God daym guys, mushrooms should have made you see through this depression pill pushing money making bullshit! Everybody is depressed, because life is depressing. Those drugs are worse for ya dome than crack, straight up.

 

yes i have thought that...Not the crack thing though lol

but its more for anxiety I take it. It sure helps with that.

Im sure i wouldnt need em if i didnt smoke weed though. Thats seein through the depression ;p

 

I have anxiety too, and depression, and schizophrenia, according to some docter I saw when I was 12. I never took anything for it. Sure, I may be an insane person, but Im too paranoid to trust doctors

 

Mine was prescribed for anxiety as well. I've had my internal struggles with going on the meds, I decided "it" was getting to the point where it was worth seeing if it could help. Anything's worth a shot.

 

Well, if ya need help ya need help, I agree completley. If I didnt have such a great wife and baby, I would probably drink myself too death every night Do you have people who care for you to help you? Because I know it's much harder to deal with alone. I for one have major crazy moments with hallucinations, visual and auditory, as well as anxiety attacks that come on with no reason, Ive woken up in the middle of yelling at my girlfriend with no recollection of why I was doing so, weird shit like thinking people are in my room all the time. But since she understands whats wrong she tries to help me, instead of sending me to doctors or worse, leaving me. It's all good as long as your not like, "I want to kill myself Im so sad blah blah" ya know? Isolation is a MAJOR bitch, especially when your young.

 

you are lucky relayer that your gf is like that


I am becomin pretty weird since some doses , it sucks...I get yelled at by her, she says im stupid, I look like a moron, cuz i cant really react to stuff cuz of everyhting thats goin on in my head...being other people lol no in a litteral way but conversing kind of with dad, buddy , mom or whoever



she said shell be nice when i become intelligent again what a bitch

 

Thanks grapey, and Im sorry to hear this about you. Maybe do what I did, just let her know what is wrong, and that you just need someone to care to get better ya know?
But yea I know what you mean about doses, Im one of the people that dosed countless upon countless times on many psychedellics, and I think they really only helped, but I have what I belive to be a strong enough mind to battle insanity even while dosed up. But people will tell ya dont let wackos take L or mushrooms, I say dont let close minded whimps take em problem solved right there

 

Well I think it is pretty damn interesting myself. There is no published research (that I know of) in this area. Most combinations have not been studied, but quite often one can conjure up a reasonable theory to predict or understand any interaction. With psychedelics we really don't know how they work. Sure we have some of the pieces such as partial agonism of serotonin receptors and the notion of quantum superpositioning, but it is not well understood.

I'm not sure what all this talk about MAOIs is about, but one shouldn't take them with SSRIs.

 

Stop using ssri's if you want to take psychedellics, for one that mix could kill you.

 

i dunno if it could kill you with psychedelics but its clear that psychedelics directly effect the serotonin system in some way or another, and thus it canbe expected that ssri's will interfere with this processing. ssri's are a really stupid idea when you think about it, but they make people happier in the short term, and seem to be most effective against anxiety.

 

yea they work pretty well

im starting to forget half nights to take it so i guess ill be tripping again soon ;p

 

I believe its called serotonin syndrome where your serotonin levels skyrocket and you eventually go into a shock type stage and die. But I may be wrong.

 

Well been on 10mg paroxetine daily for about two months, two blotters on friday night (and a case 'a nitrous lol).

All is well

Stig

 

i tripped awile back while on Effexor XR , an SSRI, an had the time of my life. i'm also on an antit psychotic and had no problems. it may just be that particular med. Best of luck.

 

well... i dunno but, if yer taking antidepressants, might wanna think about stopping psychedelics no?
yer depressed man...