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The after effects of LSD.
After taking LSD for the third time about a week ago, I had a textbook bad trip. Panicked, scared, restless, and generally uncomfortable; I paced around my basement and backyard for about 5 or 6 hours till I was calm enough to sleep. The bad 'feeling' or 'vibe' from the LSD lasted through that day and the next, but eventually went away. Well about two days ago (a week after the bad trip) I was drinking with some friends. Got pretty drunk, and passed out on the couch. I woke up the next morning with a hangover. However the hangover developed into the exact same feeling that I had when I had the bad trip. It wasn't as intense, but the same feelings of anxiety, a loss of my sense of reality, and general discomfort came with the feeling. These feelings lasted through the day, but I tolerated them and made it to sleep. I woke up the next morning... today, and the feelings were still there. Today was better than yesterday, but still noticably 'not right.' Is this depression? Anxiety? I am very confused and concerned for my mental health. I'm not crazy but I fear I'm on the way. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and I plan to see about prescription Xanax or Valium. I have been warned to stay away from Wellbutrin and Thorazine, both of which have been known to worsen patients mental states in cases of drug related mental trama. Has this happened to anyone else at all? My main question is.. what happened? the drug is out of my system.. and I was fine for a week.. so why should the effects come back.? something to do with drinking maybe?? Please help.. Thanks..
This helped me more than you know. I took one hit of acid one time, but it was enough to kinda freak me out. Smoking pot wasn't the same, but if I wasn't high I wasn't affected. The real kicker is a concussion I got about a month later. I was hungover also. So I smoked weed and BOOM... "i feel like im on acid... am i on acid? im having a flashback. I ruined my brain forever. I feel like im going crazy". All three of those things affecting how I was thinking really were a doosy. I even called my parents from college. It was about a week before school started but I asked them to come pick me up. I told them about everything but the drugs ( If anyone reads this.. I don't now if i made the right decision or not by not telling them... Sometimes I wish i had, and i almost did but its still something i think about. I would reccomend telling someone though. I told my older brother, gf, friends I tripped with previously, and a doctor) The downhill tumble accelerated. It's now about 3 months later and I'm still finding myself anxious for no reason and each time I fight to convince myself it is not LSD related. It isn't but man... it feels like it in the moment. You were pretty spot on in this...
I've been training myself mentally and working on my mental strength and resolve which I never ever had even thought about before. I'm starting to get to the point where I just keep telling myself I'm getting better and I know I am. For my I think my drug use, specifically LSD then pot only afterwards, triggered an underlying tendency in myself to be anxious. One tip for everyone... don't read what is written on the internet.... Much of it is gloom and doom and oh your ******.... youre not. Trust me and everyone else who has gone through this... It feels like you are when you are feeling anxious and your mind starts to race, but you're really not. Trust you aren't and start taking each day at a time. The brain is very plastic, meaning it can change, for worse of course, we experienced this, but also for better. A therapist told me this just today. Nothing is permanent. I'm sort of rambling but it feels good to get my thoughts out.
You will be fine. Don't pay any attention to the people who say aren't. Just do the things that make you feel better. Start living healthily, Excercise! Read, play video games. Do things that don't let your stinkin thinkin but in and whisper stupid worrisome **** in your ear. Hope this helps some of yall. wish I had found this website earlier instead of other more drug oriented websites wear teenagers post without any proof, experience or goodwill.
God Bless all of you
I've been training myself mentally and working on my mental strength and resolve which I never ever had even thought about before. I'm starting to get to the point where I just keep telling myself I'm getting better and I know I am. For my I think my drug use, specifically LSD then pot only afterwards, triggered an underlying tendency in myself to be anxious. One tip for everyone... don't read what is written on the internet.... Much of it is gloom and doom and oh your ******.... youre not. Trust me and everyone else who has gone through this... It feels like you are when you are feeling anxious and your mind starts to race, but you're really not. Trust you aren't and start taking each day at a time. The brain is very plastic, meaning it can change, for worse of course, we experienced this, but also for better. A therapist told me this just today. Nothing is permanent. I'm sort of rambling but it feels good to get my thoughts out.
You will be fine. Don't pay any attention to the people who say aren't. Just do the things that make you feel better. Start living healthily, Excercise! Read, play video games. Do things that don't let your stinkin thinkin but in and whisper stupid worrisome **** in your ear. Hope this helps some of yall. wish I had found this website earlier instead of other more drug oriented websites wear teenagers post without any proof, experience or goodwill.
God Bless all of you
I am glad to see all these posts about this wierd drug related trauma that is indescribable. I took acid a few times as a teenager in 70's and the last time I had a bad trip. I mean i wasn't screaming and crying but in my mind i felt really super wierd and terrified and was afraid to tell anyone. I was really scared about how i was feeling for a long time; and really afraid to tell anyone because i thought they would think i was crazy. it was from the lsd, no doubt, and after that i could no longer smoke pot whatsoever because of the paranoia. i finally went to the dr's at emergency room and they said i had a pottasium deficiency, so that was helpful to know. over the years i just kind of suffered with it and it slowly dissappeared, but later on it came back to haunt me in my 40's when i was under a lot of pressure at college and being a single parent. finally i got some nerve pills from the er because i was having nervous breakdown, so that really cured me. my solution was and still is to have a drink or two, or more until the anxiety passes. i have also learned to "talk myself down", and go to a place where i feel safe and normal like at home doing something i like. also i read it is good to take hot showers and stuff to get toxins out of your body. the sad thing is, my precious teenage daughter got talked into smoking some synthetic marijuana and had a VERY TRAUMATIC reaction to an unknown substance and is now on xanax to deal with the same thing that i went through. it breaks my heart, but atleast i know what she is feeling like and i try to help her any way i can. i could go on and on about all my experiences dealing with this, i am 52 years old now and pretty much free of all that; if i ever feel panic coming on i just have a drink; but it really nevers happens anymore, thank God. thank you to all of you to have the courage to tell your stories, i think it helps other people knowing they are not the only ones. just take a nerve pill or have a drink if you have to if it gets bad, and work your way through it and try to be around good people whom you trust and do something that makes you feel comfy and safe; watch a favorite funny movie for instance; i know that stupid when a panic attack is at its worst and the scary part is that you feel like you will be stuck like that forever; it is really terrifying; but it will go away. i'm not saying become an alky or a pill head just learn what it takes to calm yourself down temporarily until you feel better. God Bless you all.
Hi Adam,
I took LSD 2 nights ago and had a great trip until 4 am when I realized it wasn't going away. I had an "afterglow" all the next day and it was impossible to sleep. I finally got some sleep but today I still feel very fuzzy and anxious. I have a lot of the same feelings you're having: loss of sense of reality, overall discomfort and the feeling that things "just aren't right." I'm freaking myself out, and was wondering if those feelings got any better? Have you improved at all since you posted this?
I took LSD 2 nights ago and had a great trip until 4 am when I realized it wasn't going away. I had an "afterglow" all the next day and it was impossible to sleep. I finally got some sleep but today I still feel very fuzzy and anxious. I have a lot of the same feelings you're having: loss of sense of reality, overall discomfort and the feeling that things "just aren't right." I'm freaking myself out, and was wondering if those feelings got any better? Have you improved at all since you posted this?
I haven't read every post about different peeps' experiences with LSD, but stopped at Sue's Bcause hers sounds most like my experience..I did lsd as well as any & everything available from age 14 to 18.mostly lsd, took around 100 times..lost count after 80 something..i was a FEARLESS teen who like teens now, NEVER thought of long term damage done to the mental,chemical,emotional and physical effects later in life.WELL,don't believe ANY1 who says it's harmless! If we were all created differently..well then we'll all be affected differently by drugs.I turned 35 2 yrs. ago & in ONE DAY..woke up a sick insomniac who's body from the inside out took a rapid, torturesome experience for 3 months strait & begged My Lord to just kill me..I have 2 boys & a hubby & I couldn't FUNCTION in ANY area..kept going to Drs.,NOONE knew what 2 do..felt hopeless & wanted 2 just die.No experience is the same for each individual so I could never truly express the physical & mental torment I felt.I kneeled down on the "last" day, and said..Lord, TODAY is the last..Either you help me..or take me home..THAT DAY I saw the RIGHT Doctor who took 1 hr. staring,analyzing & asking innumerable questions about my teen years & Family history..Yes, tons of Phsychadellics,snorting horse tranquilizers,mentally ill maternal family & blablabla..LSD can manifest in negative ways in ANY1 at ANYTIME..my life is 4ever changed..but am thankful to be alive..on meds. 4 2 yrs. now..they help, but NO day is the same! You CANNOT mess with drugs & chemicals & come out UNSCATHED..most of my drug buddies from back in the day are either in an institution,dead or messed up in some way..STAY CLEAN..if ONLY teens could see older people & how they now suffer from the choices we make..they MIGHT think twice about doing these drugs just becaurse at that time you THINK it's fun & harmless..but think again! You will NOT come out without SOME kind of after effect..mine took 17 years to explode..
I Have had Bad trips from psychedelics, I have also suffered from constant high levels of generalised anxiety for 2 years straight.
I smoked weed from when I was 14 into my early twenties.
Abuse of Weed I think definately contributed to my anxiety disorder erupting when I was 17.
I think Imbalances in brain chemicals are due to a combination of Upbringing,
personality, Diet, and drug use & abuse.
What I have also learnt from my bad experiences on drugs is that they sometimes make you vulnerable enough to have heightened experiences of yourself. Often this means facing things about yourself that need to change. (Low self worth or high standards of yourself and others for example).
Psychedelic induced "Bad trips" for some people are often very uncomfortable but often have a hidden lesson in them. For me it has been a process of learning just how low my self worth / self acceptance / belief in myself can be or has been.
I think I am right when I say there is a big percentage of people out there that have mood disorders. It seems safe to say that it is normal on some level.
The conclusion I have come to is that although we all have imperfect upbringings, personalities, diets ect and all suffer from brain chemical imbalances at different times in our lives, all of us are here in this physical realm in order to better ourselves to make a better world. And that means learning about your faults, accepting them and taking action to change or manage symptoms and experiences.
And the point is, that no one person is the same. Therefore what works for some, doesnt work for others. It doesnt matter if its illegal drugs, legal drugs, Natures medicine or psychiatric pharmaceuticals. WHat works for me might not work for you.
For me, over the last two years, the biggest most effective medicine out of all of these has been self acceptance. In that 2 year journey of self acceptance I tried herbs, changing my diet, committed mediation, laying off alcohol and party drugs, exercise & ongoing therapy. Finally giving Antidepressants a and Anti psychotics ago when things got real hard. These prescribed drugs played a very small role for me but probably an as equal role as all the other things aforementioned.
In the last 3 months I have been able to enjoy psychedelics like DMT, Psylocybin and LSD with confidence and minimal fear of having a "Bad trip".
I have also in the same 3 month period begun weaning off my prescribed psychiatric medication. I am close to taking none at all but at the same time having either LSD, DMT or Psilocybin at least once per week.
The after effects of even a mild trip are incredible, I feel that my brain chemistry and hormones are balanced with a sense of "being back to normal" ( no anxiety ) for anywhere from 3 days to 7 days. That is very noticeable after feeling anxiety constantly for 2 years straight.
I now feel that if I were to have a bad trip, that I will be accepting of it because there is most likely something valuable about myself or life to learn from it.
I believe that life's most valuable lessons are shown to us by our strictest and most unforgiving teachers. ( Life itself )
So for me, Psychedelics like LSD, ( however i feel that psilocybin and DMT are more effective ) have been one of the final steps in my long list of different kinds of aids and therapies. But this is just for me.
For you, it might be completely the other way around. But my point is to remember how everyone is different, LSD might actually help you.
But Im sure that no one substance or method will work for anyone.
Keep at it people, find what works for you and most of all Love yourself for who you are. We all have different lessons to learn in this life and if you find yourself not fitting into society then you are here to learn something else than the people you observe around you that do seem to have it all figured out. I am pretty sure they don't but.
I smoked weed from when I was 14 into my early twenties.
Abuse of Weed I think definately contributed to my anxiety disorder erupting when I was 17.
I think Imbalances in brain chemicals are due to a combination of Upbringing,
personality, Diet, and drug use & abuse.
What I have also learnt from my bad experiences on drugs is that they sometimes make you vulnerable enough to have heightened experiences of yourself. Often this means facing things about yourself that need to change. (Low self worth or high standards of yourself and others for example).
Psychedelic induced "Bad trips" for some people are often very uncomfortable but often have a hidden lesson in them. For me it has been a process of learning just how low my self worth / self acceptance / belief in myself can be or has been.
I think I am right when I say there is a big percentage of people out there that have mood disorders. It seems safe to say that it is normal on some level.
The conclusion I have come to is that although we all have imperfect upbringings, personalities, diets ect and all suffer from brain chemical imbalances at different times in our lives, all of us are here in this physical realm in order to better ourselves to make a better world. And that means learning about your faults, accepting them and taking action to change or manage symptoms and experiences.
And the point is, that no one person is the same. Therefore what works for some, doesnt work for others. It doesnt matter if its illegal drugs, legal drugs, Natures medicine or psychiatric pharmaceuticals. WHat works for me might not work for you.
For me, over the last two years, the biggest most effective medicine out of all of these has been self acceptance. In that 2 year journey of self acceptance I tried herbs, changing my diet, committed mediation, laying off alcohol and party drugs, exercise & ongoing therapy. Finally giving Antidepressants a and Anti psychotics ago when things got real hard. These prescribed drugs played a very small role for me but probably an as equal role as all the other things aforementioned.
In the last 3 months I have been able to enjoy psychedelics like DMT, Psylocybin and LSD with confidence and minimal fear of having a "Bad trip".
I have also in the same 3 month period begun weaning off my prescribed psychiatric medication. I am close to taking none at all but at the same time having either LSD, DMT or Psilocybin at least once per week.
The after effects of even a mild trip are incredible, I feel that my brain chemistry and hormones are balanced with a sense of "being back to normal" ( no anxiety ) for anywhere from 3 days to 7 days. That is very noticeable after feeling anxiety constantly for 2 years straight.
I now feel that if I were to have a bad trip, that I will be accepting of it because there is most likely something valuable about myself or life to learn from it.
I believe that life's most valuable lessons are shown to us by our strictest and most unforgiving teachers. ( Life itself )
So for me, Psychedelics like LSD, ( however i feel that psilocybin and DMT are more effective ) have been one of the final steps in my long list of different kinds of aids and therapies. But this is just for me.
For you, it might be completely the other way around. But my point is to remember how everyone is different, LSD might actually help you.
But Im sure that no one substance or method will work for anyone.
Keep at it people, find what works for you and most of all Love yourself for who you are. We all have different lessons to learn in this life and if you find yourself not fitting into society then you are here to learn something else than the people you observe around you that do seem to have it all figured out. I am pretty sure they don't but.
hey im almost 19. i first dropped acid when i was about 17. I lost my virginity while ALSO on acid. I was just wondering because I seem to have anxiety in social situations which ive NEVER had before. what kind of help I should seek. I found a drug counselor did not help at all..my doctor looked at me funny when I told him that I think my cognitive functions are messed up. How should I go about seeking help?
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