Experience With Using LSD to Correct Psychological Problems that it Initially Caused?

About 6 months ago, I took 3 and a half hits of LSD with my then boyfriend. He had an ego dissolving experience and could not fathom language, while I did not. We were with 2 others at the time that took mushrooms and my boyfriend and I commented that we felt so different from them. Not long after, we broke up, feeling like our feelings toward each other had changed. Ever since then, I felt so different from everyone and I am always afraid that I am offending someone and am finding it hard to express myself to others and relate to my friends. I spoke with my ex boyfriend with whom I had tripped with and he said he has felt the same.

I have heard that LSD can correct problems that it causes if you take it again. I am slightly weary about this, but not afraid to try it. I would like to know if anyone has had any experience trying this and whether they were positive or negative?

 

key word "CAN" correct problems or "CAN" make them worse.. It depends on psychological make-up, mood, and what is happening at the moment. You can't take a hit of acid and expect it to to anything "intentional" other than make you trip.

 

It's really a throw-up. Like hawaiinkine says, the key word here is can.

If you experience something discomforting on acid, you might be able to go back to LSD and take another look at that situation, but you might just end up finding out something else that you don't like.

It sounds like you've just become less confident in yourself, and I don't think that tripping again would be the best way to solve an issue like such, but it could work.

Sometimes you just gotta take a bit of a break and a breather from substances if they're making you feel uncomfortable.

In short, I've never tried it, but it could work, though it could just make you less comfortable.

 

I'd say give yourself some time to absorb what occurred during your trip. Can't tell what a trip will be like from one to the next,generally speaking. You feel differant because you are. Take your time,I say. Some normalcy will return,which is a good thing. Think things out and learn from your experience.

 

Hmmmm, thanks for the insight. I think that if I'm going to try this, I will just take a small dose and write down some things to remember during the trip.

 

i've had similar experiences...they put me off entheogens for years and i swore i was done...but leaving things to unfold as they will i gave them another chance when they crossed my path once more. just don't push yourself if you're unsure and pay attention to the coincidences in your life to show you you're where you should be. i know how you feel.

 

Tape recorder may be more effective, writing can be hard.

I have no direct experience with this but maybe this will help. The guru's that pioneered psychedelic therapy talked of the negative impact of not working all the way through an "issue" while on a trip, either by terminating the trip with drugs or otherwise. Grof and Humphreys both mention somewhere in their writings that this is a big danger of medical professionals untrained in psychedelics trying to stop a "bad trip". I'm sorry I can't point to an exact paper or paragraph but you might try browsing around here...

http://www.psychedelic-library.org/thermenu.htm

There is alot of good reading there and if you take a little time to go through some of it you may find some helpful info.

 

hey iv accually done what ur thinking of doing and it worked so well.
last year i had a very bad trip and after the trip things wernt the same i turned to a very angry person and i literally turned crazy for around 6 months i quit all drugs because i thought i fried my brain so much from the bad trip i thought giving time for my brain to heal would do, but it just keept getting worst, so out of desperation i was thinking that if acid caused this problem mabby acid could reverse this problem, i told my friends about it and they told me not to do it, it would just make it worst. but i was confienced i was right and it was going to work.
so i took acid and thruout the trip all i did was meditate on wat i want to change with my life and wat i need to fix to make my life better. woke up a new person i accually cried that morning that i accually was finally back to normal.
i recommend u should take acid and yeh write down things to remember.
dont expect for the trip to be fun aswell, my trip accually was very weird and awkard but was totally worth it.

 

I smiled when reading this. Glad you were able to help yourself achieve some kind of direction and balance again. Its not easy work at all but a deep introspection on a decent dose can be the most theraputic thing ever.

 

I would actually recommend an abstinence from psychoactive substances following a psychologically troubling ordeal with one. I'm just speaking from personal experience; yes, your next LSD trip will likely deal with these very issues, but in the meantime, they need to solidify in your mind, you need to achieve sober balance, normal mental fortitude, before your next cerebral reboot. Don't go juggling LSD trips, oh this one was bad, oh this next one will fix that last one, etc. Spend some time integrating. Very important. Good old sober reflection and meditation.

 

Or you could be a paranoid schizophrenic like Syd Barrett, take lots of acid compounding the problem.

 

If you want to go the psychoactive route, MDMA may be a better psychedelic to utililze in this instance if you are having trouble opening up and wanting to explore your feelings.

 

Yeah another option is to try a different compound. For "intimacy issues" MDMA, 2C-B, and oddly ketamine/methoxetamine I have found to be the best.

 

Nah - tests done in Switzerland and Russia use sub trip amounts of LSD for psychological problems. Apparently LSD has a serotonin enhancing aspect.

I had ten hellish bad acid trips when I was fifteen. I gave up all drugs. I went to college. I had a headache from mental conflict that lasted two whole years. I eventually got over the bad trips and the sense of loss of personality from acid. It wasn't good, but I did get over it.

After college graduation - about two years later I met someone who got me a vial of a hundred hits of liquid acid for 100 bucks.

I started tripping a few times a week. I got so used to it that I was able to wait tables while tripping.

I never had a good trip again. I also never had a bad trip. Nonetheless, I always felt that acid was bad for my mind.

I can speak from experience. Acid will never fix what is wrong with you. Never. Also, once the good trips are over and you experience bad trips you will never have another good trip again.

Sorry.

But that's it!

I dare anyone with experience to say different.

However, if you like to trip then peruvian torch powder is a good experience. It is more light and gentle.

 

You know, except for all those things it has fixed for tens of thousands of people who have used it properly, ie. not while waiting tables and 5 times a week.

The way it usually works is that every trip is different and related to your state of mind at the particular point in your life that you take the trip. If you have a decade in your life where you are not ready to trip, then you're gonna have bad trips in that decade, but it doesn't mean your trips the next decade will be bad.

*Myself and 89 people from this forum raise their hand, along with most of the medical community actually working/worked with psychedelics*

You abused LSD very badly. What do you expect? You weren't using it in a way that even gave you a CHANCE to have a good, life-changing trip.

You speak as if you are a LSD veteran with all this knowledge, yet your experience with the substance is obviously in the minority. A simple google search or a deep reading of medical literature would show you this. I can tell you that in my time on this forum I have heard perhaps 2 or 3 stories like yours, at most, while the usual "I took LSD and it helped me immensly" or "I took LSD and feel more spiritually connected" stories are literally a headache to browse through, being so many.

 

:iagree: with what he said ^^^^:2thumbsup:

 

raises hand as one of 89 :sunny:

 

Sounds like you've never used acid in any sort of responsible way, and have no authority to say it can't be good for you.

It sounds like it's faaaaar too late for you to even try. But don't sully the name of acid because of your foolishness.

I personally do disagree, from personal experience and as writer said, the headache causing number of others who agree with me.

If you look at people who have had bad times with psychedelics, nearly every one of them personally did lots to cause those bad times, it wasn't the drugs. I've even seen some people unknowingly helped by their stupidity with LSD. (deciding things about all drugs because of how horrible they thought psychedelics where when they abused them, and going clean, that sort of thing)


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Writer and guerilla gave sound advice-get your head right before doing it again, even if doing it again's the right path you don't sound ready. And MDMA is very useful for this sort of thing.

To add to what they said, I would suggest that when you do it again, it's with people who know your situation and you can talk to freely, and who you trust, and if you can get good quality LSD and MDMA (no sketchy rolls, only if you really know what it is) I would suggest a candyflip. It will give you the benefits of LSD, while making it nearly impossible to feel negative, a bad trip on a candyflip would be very hard to achieve.

 

in my opinion i think you should do it, but you will have to try very hard to find a good setting for an amazing trip, as well as do something with your family before so you will have an elevated mood, and the trip should go very well. keep in mind that i did say should tho, while on the trip something could pop up in your mind that will cause the whole thing to crash and burn. just do your best to have a good set and setting, and everything Should go fine. before lsd was made illegal, there were many psychotherapy tests with it, and it was proven a very good tool in healing the mind, but the people with the worst reactions were the ones who felt lsd was the only option left that they had, if this is your belief, i wouldnt do it.

 

Hmm, lots of points to address in this after a second reading.

That may be the way they conduct psychedelic therapy in Switzerland and Russia, but much of the literature about the early use of LSD in therapy was a multi-week regimen starting with 25ugs and increasing dosage each week until the subject did achieve a psychedelic state of mind and experience. For some individual doses of 800ugs were needed to "crack the shell" and allow the subject to get to the root of whatever ailed them emotionally. This was more often than not people dealing with alcohol or drug addiction.

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