They don't. Sometimes the sedative, calming effect of benzos can ease or dull the stimulating, anxiogenic effect of psychedelics but it never really counteracts the hallucinations.
I hear people talk about having benzos on hand when preparing for strong trips, as if benzos are a cancel button and they can be used to just opt-out of a psychedelic experience. Good luck with that.
Benzos can definitely help to make heavy trips much more manageable though.
I actually found benzos, in small amounts, had a nice synergy with MDMA too.
That seems more reasonable, to me. Like when using benzos + amphetamine - the benzos might make the rush a bit softer, and make you somewhat less alert and bat-shit crazy, but benzos don't interfere with dopamine. Anti-psychotics are sort of a cancel button....for the high at least, not for the side effects (like muscle rigidity).
Thank you, but I would still like an answer from one of these people who use benzos to quit psychedelic trips.
My brother (not an addict, but was for a short time, years ago) has ordered LSD and we are taking them together (he has this crazy idea that this will stop me from using other drugs), and the only problem is he used stimulants and psychedelelelics until he went bat-shit crazy and i've been...hearing voices and seeing ghosts lately (although not right now, as I haven't used amphetamine for a week or so), but this has more been a problem for people around me than for me. I know he's at risk but I'm not saying anything about it, instead I'm keeping 12 mg alprazolam for us to split. I chose alprazolam instead of clonazepam as I don't think convulsions or heart-bouncing-out-of-chest are as large problems as freaking out.
I was really really delirious when I thought I was done tapering down from benzos, and it was horrible (and I even said "yes" when the guards asked me if they should call the police, as I couldn't explain and I told them "cerebral haemorrhage" but I guess they didn't take me very seriously...but I was positive I was going to die from the cold and usually when going really numb on drugs or having 210/190 in blood pressure I have no problem with the idea of dying, but for some reason I was so scared I [blushing]cried a bit, albeit just for a few seconds, for the first time in like..idk, 15 years[/blushing]...and the reason for telling this is I don't want to experience anything like that ever again...although sooner or later I suppose I will. It went away when the doc immediately put me on diazepam and olanzapine.
I'm not sure if this episode counts as a real state of psychosis, as opposed to hearing voices and seeing ghosts (when I asked my bupe-doc for anti-psychotics, he told me that I didn't need any because I wasn't psychotic...I guess because I always know what I hear might not be for real, but I still act as if they were - because the voices are mostly the police shouting and banging on my door, and now, being completely sober, I can still see that happening...and while I'm super tense and somewhat anxious, it's not anywhere near benzo-withdrawal-induced-psychosis.
Who's at a higher risk for freaking out, me or my brother? And I suppose the answers will be "don't trip", but if the sentence "don't do drugs, they're dangerous" actually worked, this forum would not exist. Even having the benzo in my pocket will have a calming effect, and should anything go wrong we can take 6 mg alprazolam each and then split my aripiprazole and take 30 mg each....
but I mostly want to know if the episode I wrote about above puts me in the danger zone, the same way my brother's stimulant-abuse does? I've never gone crazy for real while using uppers. And the voices I mentioned (while using amphetamine) often are real voices, but just people talking or shouting as people do, and the banging on my door are often cars bumping.