Can't handle drugs like I used to

[hazmatz]

I started smoking marijuana about two years ago. I had always had a great time with it, and it led me to using other drugs with some close friends of mine. We got into psychedelics, disassociatives, stimulants, lots of different things. We had always used them to find our inner selves and have a good time, sometime using at parties but we werent crazy and reckless about it.

I never had a difficult trip until my second shroom trip where I completely lost my ego and panicked very badly. Ever since then, I have not done anything besides smoking weed because I am too afraid. I want to explore more with psychedelics but I am overwhelmed with intense fear in my subconscious despite everything around me being safe. Did I get really bad anxiety from my drug use? What can I do to not be so afraid of drugs?

 

[sonicwhite]

I would use this new found emotion to avoid psych's and other drugs that take your mind to planet x.....other then that opiates should be fine...benzo's would really help your anxiety but not help you better control your trip.....Once I had a bad roll. That was it.....I psyched myself out and had bad one's ever since.....I'm Bipolar so weed throws me into a psychosis...... would be glad that I have my mind and be it that way....I know you would love to explore but is it really worth a trip to in patient for a trip...I know what I'm saying is going to throw you off but once drugs turn on you.....Those days are over with the exception of a few.

 

[RTrain]

I had one bad trip on shrooms and never could bring myself to want to use psychedelics again, at least not enough to have a heavy trip.

 

[HeroinKing]

I had one bad trip on shrooms and never could bring myself to want to use psychedelics again, at least not enough to have a heavy trip.

I have this same issue. Not all psychedelics but just shrooms. I haven't done them since.

 

[RTrain]

^Honestly I never had the issue with LSD, which I had done about a handful of times prior to ever trying shoooms. Actually never really had a "great" experience on shrooms, always caused more anxiety than I cared for. It was the 2nd or 3rd time I tried them that I really had a bad time, though, after that maybe did a small dose once and was a bit uneasy, so after then never again. Haven't really had the opportunity to do LSD again, or if there was it would've taken leg work and I passed on it. Kinda hesitant to trip again, on any hallucinogen. I don't even really like to smoke weed anymore, too much anxiety, with benzos its alright. Its no wonder opiates were right down my alley, they help every type of anxiety and make everything more enjoyable.

 

[HeroinKing]

^Honestly I never had the issue with LSD, which I had done about a handful of times prior to ever trying shoooms. Actually never really had a "great" experience on shrooms, always caused more anxiety than I cared for. It was the 2nd or 3rd time I tried them that I really had a bad time, though, after that maybe did a small dose once and was a bit uneasy, so after then never again. Haven't really had the opportunity to do LSD again, or if there was it would've taken leg work and I passed on it. Kinda hesitant to trip again, on any hallucinogen. I don't even really like to smoke weed anymore, too much anxiety, with benzos its alright. Its no wonder opiates were right down my alley, they help every type of anxiety and make everything more enjoyable.

LSD is pretty much a guaranteed good time for me. I feel like a good shroom trip can be better than an LSD trip, but tripping on shrooms is way more of a risk of a bad time. Just my opinion

 

[neversickanymore]

I would wait a while until you no longer have anxiety about tripping cause going into a trip all freaked out that you may have a bad trip is generally a dangerous thing to thing to do and can create a bad trip. And I would leave the opiates and benzos alone unless you want to find out how strong you are.. cause people need to be pretty damn strong if they get hooked on those drugs.

 

[bunge]

This ^.
Oh, and welcome to the club.lol

 

[Toz]

I also had a terrible trip once that made me not want to take any psychedelics for years. I would suggest waiting untill you feel you are ready and then start with low doses and keep some haldol or another antipsychotic+benzo close if things get out of hand.

 

[.:Holy::Toast:.]

Idk I still wanted to do shrooms after my first bad trip.
My first bad trip also happened to be my first psychedelic trip ever, but I've never has a bad trip again
Your fear is all in your head, but unfortunately if you don't feel like you have control over it you could easily let that fear spill over if you try to trip again

 

[TheLostBoys]

Had taken shrooms like 5 times & & had a blast but then about the 6th time, it was terrible & lost my ego, etc.................imo, I think LSD is safer than shrooms.

The bad trip was over 10 years ago & I will never touch psychs again. They are not for everyone.

 

[Rabidkoala]

I think that to increase your chances of having a good trip, always make sure your life is good and stress free. If there is stress, anxiety, or worries on the back of your mind, despite your current mood, you'll dig it out when you're tripping and flip out. I have to make sure my life is content.
Also, I can't be around just anyone. Gotta be the right people. Some people freak me out or weird me the hell out. Gotta be chill, happy, positive, EXPERIENCED people.
And I love acid way more than shrooms. Shrooms throw me into black space. Seriously can't remember shit. Like everything is basically black but I am in color and I see myself from above. Then a few hours later I randomly snap out of it and everything looks amazing and IS amazing. I literally go to the wizard of oz and come back. LSD is more coherent to me. But the wrong thing could trigger a mood change.

 

[Midazle]

I always say have some benzo's near by and possibly an antipsychotic but a heavy dose of benzos will pull you out of a bad trip no matter what, I mean you might be doped as shit but you'll feel pleasant. Maybe have a friend you trust whos not doing psych's have the benzos, ie: 6 friends together 5 are doing psychedelics and 1 decides its not for him so he does opiates or something...probably not the easiest thing but might restore some trust in psychs.

For me psych's freak me out, I have wayyyy too much stress in my life in multiple forms, just woke up from a terrible nightmare lol. Although I could do something like Ketamine since you can't really freak on that other than not liking the K-hole lol.

 

[Rabidkoala]

^Honestly I never had the issue with LSD, which I had done about a handful of times prior to ever trying shoooms. Actually never really had a "great" experience on shrooms, always caused more anxiety than I cared for. It was the 2nd or 3rd time I tried them that I really had a bad time, though, after that maybe did a small dose once and was a bit uneasy, so after then never again. Haven't really had the opportunity to do LSD again, or if there was it would've taken leg work and I passed on it. Kinda hesitant to trip again, on any hallucinogen. I don't even really like to smoke weed anymore, too much anxiety, with benzos its alright. Its no wonder opiates were right down my alley, they help every type of anxiety and make everything more enjoyable.

I never thought of this until I read your post, but if feel the same way about hallucinogens too. I haven't done them in years because they started to cause anxiety instead of fun. I even rarely smoke weed because it does anxiety horribly too. Makes me analyze shit too much, mostly around people. I like smoking alone.
I was thinking if it's because maybe our brain changed from all of it, we got more coherent and less scrambled. We had kinda a tolerance, and we were able to rationalize, reflect, and think about life clearly. Last time I ate acid was like this. this was bad. I left my friends abruptly and walked home and went to my room and layed in bed and was having massive anxiety about being on acid. Building tolerance and being coherent enough finally to think, but also being on a hallucinogen made me paranoid about life. And I felt lost. Lol I sobered up and laughed it off. But I must have dug a subconscious trouble up because I won't touch it ever Again. Been 5 years I don't need my subconscious dug up when I'm recreationally chilling

 

[Rabidkoala]

I always say have some benzo's near by and possibly an antipsychotic but a heavy dose of benzos will pull you out of a bad trip no matter what, I mean you might be doped as shit but you'll feel pleasant. Maybe have a friend you trust whos not doing psych's have the benzos, ie: 6 friends together 5 are doing psychedelics and 1 decides its not for him so he does opiates or something...probably not the easiest thing but might restore some trust in psychs.

For me psych's freak me out, I have wayyyy too much stress in my life in multiple forms, just woke up from a terrible nightmare lol. Although I could do something like Ketamine since you can't really freak on that other than not liking the K-hole lol.

I think when we stop being distracted by the coolness of the visuals and they go away with tolerance, we start focusing internally. And our stress and thought we suppress are surprised for a reason! Ahhh!

But I never did a benzo with LSD...I always enjoyed the speed of it.