Time heals mental wounds: life after bad shroom trip

So its been a bit more than 3 months since my second and last shroom triphttp://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=282749. I just wanted to discuss how life has been after this horrible experience. Throughout the trip I was completely filled with fear and anxiety and terrible racing thoughts that i have pretty much overcome. The first 2 months and a half after taking them i felt as if i was living in a mental shadow. I was extremely depressed and paranoid about absolutely nothing. I talked to some friends about this and apparently thats just psychedelics doing their designated job and the feelings will pass with a bit of time. I was disappointed by the fact that the drug made my entire outlook on life negative and full of fear. I'm feeling a lot better now as if i have learned from these past months and i feel happier with things. Shrooms have done a tremendous amount of harm to my psychological wellbeing and i dont plan on ever doing them again for fear of another bad trip and having to live with that trauma. Im not trying to put down psychedelics at all i think they have the potential to be amazing if used carefully. Maybe im a little bitch for saying this but i was scared shitless of my thoughts and emotions whenever i was alone. Does anybody know what i'm talking about or went through?

 

This has happened to a few but definitely not the majority of people I knew to a certain extent. What was the setting of your last trip? Were you around friends, at a familiar place. Shrooms demand the utmost respect. Possibly your mind might not have been able to let go and completely embrace the experience. I am sorry to here about your situation, maybe or maybe not when the time is right your mind will let you know that you are ready for another experience. Good luck.

 

Also these kind of thoughts your having will more than likely go away with time. If you feel you can not handle them a psychologist might be the answer. You'd be surprised at how much they could help you if your willing to be honest with them.

 

You have to get into the trip in order to have a happy trip.

 

What made you afraid when you tripped? Normally when people take psychedelics and have a horrible mind-damaging trip it is because they could not let go of something. This could be anything......for example if you had a bad childhood or abusive parents this memory can come up during a trip. If you confront the memory and "conquer it" so to speak you'll come out of the experience more mentally sound. However if you resist the experience out of fear it can blossom into trauma later on......that is how some people develope ptsd from tripping. But yeah as time goes by your mind will "heal".....and who knows one day you might be able to journey in that world again.

Maybe LSD would be better since more people usually describe it as being more "up" than the more self-analytical shrooms. Though resisting to confront bad memories that pop up in acid as well can result in the same trauma. But everyone handles each psychedelic differently.

 

Hope you learned your lesson. They aren't meant for you. OR you should wait a long time before doing it again.

 

the first time i did acid i didnt know wat it was. i was with a few friends when the affect started to take place, i knew exactly what was going one. then we had to get back home while the four of us were in a completely different universe. then we had to hide from my dad the entire night. not to mention, i was seeing alot of scary things and messed around with one of my friends a bit to much... not only did we almost get busted... but at the time, i though we were going to die. one bad trip isnt going to stop me from doing acid for life, but im definatly going to be WAY more careful in the future.

 

I know what you're talking about so I'll just describe what happened to me.

A little less than a month ago I was on my second shroom trip. It was awesome but terrible at the same time. A few hours had passed since ingestion and that was the begining. Walls were changing colors, the designs on the ceiling were swirling around and shifting positions. The carpet was moving around and the wood grain on the doors was flowing like a river. The illusions were sweet, of course. I felt like I was losing my high so I drank some Vodka, too much at that. About an hour after the vodka I started freaking out. I was smoking a cigarette outside when I started feeling like I had to puke. So I went to the bathroom and waited. I didn't puke but I was extremely overwhelmed by a feeling of fear. Like the whole world was turning against me. I looked at the bottle of hair gel on the counter and it triggered this intense body high. My mind was in a million places at once. Ever since that night I always think about stupid things like...what if outer space doesn't exist, what if the government is hiding the truth, what if there is no god. And other things like the possibility that earth and all living things is someones thought, like we don't actually exist.

Theres life before shrooms, and theres life after shrooms

 

Well I never believed in God, not once since the day I was born. I don't consider that weird .

 

my trip was almost exactly like the way trippedforlife33 described it. I got this really intense feeling like the world was caving in on me and it got to the point that i didn't believe that it was even real and i had just learned that. I frequently get those random thoughts too like if life was just a figment of our imaginations. I felt like as much as I wanted to embrace the trip, I couldn't understand how after being in that frame of mind