^I agree so much with that last paragraph. Even though they've taught me a lot, and have given me incredible highs, bad shroom trips are fucking awful and once it's going bad, good luck getting out of that thought loop.
And yet, my first psychedelic experience ever was a +++ full ego death trip from hell on shrooms where I split into 6 alternate egos and saw each of them making choices mirroring mine and leading to horrible lives and ultimately, horrible, early deaths, except for one where I quit all drugs, thought I went permanently insane and regretted doing shrooms more than I even knew I was capable of regretting something.
6 months later I'm tripping all the time on shrooms and acid lol, I like to think I figured a lot of things out emotionally but most people would probably say I'm just crazier than ever
But seriously, even though I got to the bottom of what caused my bad trips (anxiety), actual anxiety, and recently had the best ever trip on 330ug acid (does vividly reliving childhood memories as if you are actually going back in time and experiencing it with all the same emotions count as breaking through?), shrooms STILL kicked my ass recently over nothing in particular, just bad setting. I was actually having a great trip at first but then my friend started having a bad trip, but wasn't freaking out or anything, and that was enough for mine to go bad too. I was just caught in a stupid thought loop that was literally about having a bad trip, like "ugh god, not again". At this point bad shroom trips are more annoying than anything because I'm used to them. Shrooms are like that friend that can be really fun but leaves you out to dry when you need them. Maybe that's too harsh. They're just sooo damn touchy and if you try to control the trip, like you can with acid to an extent, it'll just make it worse. I've had some uncomfortable moments on acid, but they were always short lived and never turned into a bad trip.
On the other hand, one of my friends loves shrooms, never finds them very hard to handle, but couldn't handle acid at all. It varies for everyone. I love shrooms even though they don't always love me back, but Lucy has never been bad to me. I never get nausea on acid either, while its inevitable for me to some extent on a higher dose of shrooms.