has lsd helped you overcome anything in your life and what

[monmon_4]

I've been using it moderately to deal with a general anxiety disorder with a lot of success to help me dissect the sources of my anxiety.

If lsd has helped anyone else overcome something, what was it and how did it help?

 

[Roger&Me]

LSD turned me on to music in a really special way, so I guess it helped me overcome being a boring mofo

 

[caBr]

About 4 years of general addiction problems were cured, or at the very least re-evaluated in about 3-4 trips on LSD, my most recent addiction was IV heroin before LSD made me take a good hard look at it all. Also, while I was in a heavily drug induced mindset (brought about by long time abuse of alcohol, marijuana, dissociates, pills of all sorts (i.e. pain pills of all kinds, benzos, and a bunch of other types)) accidental ingestion of 8 pretty strong tabs of LSD as my first LSD trip ever led me into a thought spiral downward where I realized how little brain functioning was actually going on while I was abusing all those different drugs. After the spiral the trip led me to the decision that I should go to rehad, which I never followed up with actually going after the trip. I ended up blocking out that trip as best I could from my memory because I just viewed it as a 'bad trip' that I had that was only brought about because of the accidental taking of so much. Pretty much stayed away from LSD for awhile after that, or did very low amounts. I did end up going to rehab for 10 months in a 4 month minimum outpatient program because of legal issues in stealing pharmaceuticals awhile after that trip, where I ended up getting kicked out for having 3-4 dirty screens evenly spaced out. They said I either had to leave the program or go to impatient for about a year. I went back to court and they cleared me because the last failed test for alcohol, and the criminal charge was drug related, also my parents were there to say how much better I had become. Really though after I got out of rehab, I ended up losing my girlfriend and started doing a lot of drugs seen as 'harder' drugs and more often. Started using oxycontins and opanas which led me to heroin. I immediately started IV'ing soon after initial trial, and soon started doing $100+ a day of the substance regularly.. After going down this path for awhile I tripped again with a very spiritual friend of mine and we did quite a large amount of LSD. I had a terrible experience and found my self very foggy (perception wise) and did not having anything resembling a mind I would like to have. After this and also some deep inner contemplation of myself in a sober (or at least as sober as I could be after about 5 years of pretty bad drug abuse) mind I found that I had lost something that I prided myself for, myself, my personality. Realizing this I found that I had been slowly going in this direction for a long time, to different degrees depending on the substances I was abusing, but still. After about 3 months of stopping contact with all drugs I found my way back to a healthy mind. During these three months I had about 3-4 LSD trips, each highlighting different degrees of new found perception shifts, and 'moments of clarity' which helped me be a better son for my parents, a more productive worker at my job, and all in all just a better or at least more kind individual. A 'real' person. I had kind of just become fake, not really interacting with my environment in anyway, at least letting it soak in, more just reacting to others. I had numbed most of my senses over the years and it was really refreshing to get them back, and LSD just really helped me notice it.

 

[monmon_4]

caBr, I think it's great to hear personal testimonials like that where acid has helped someone or remember something about themselves that they almost committed to forgetting forever.

I have the habit of smoking weed everyday and my most recent trip helped me realize the extend to which I smoked weed solely to deal with my anxiety. It also reminded me that smoking so much causes you to interact with your environment only when it interacts with you thus causing me to avoid situation rather than embrace or challenge them.

 

[2c-goinsane]

showed me how potentially scared i could get

 

[brueright]

The first time I really tripped (on 2c-e) was a month and a half ago, right after a death in my family. Of course, in retrospect, going in with a mindset like that is never a good idea, but it worked out well for me. The 24-hour(!) trip started out with beautiful visuals and euphoria and slowly became more of an introspective experience. I reflected not only on that particular death but on my relationship with my family, my self-absorption, and how I could improve myself and become more unselfish and caring for my friends and family. By the end, I felt (while laden with guilt) a lot more comfortable with myself and where I was heading. I can't say that I've made any huge lifestyle changes since then, but I have been consciously trying to become more selfless in little ways: investing myself more in the things that my friends and family care about; telling them how much I care about them; etc.

 

[Darkmatter77]

Not much. For a few months I was often waking up depressed in the morning. Since I took 3 hits of strong acid last week (partly a bad trip) I don't wake up depressed anymore.

 

[šljiva]

It helped in a few areas of my life but most of all in overcoming my fears. Since my first acid trip I know how to control fear and deal with it in a 'friendly' way.

 

[thomas2laylum]

that boasting is an unconstructive way to delude the self from true weaknesses of which are based on painful experiences and emotions
(ego softening)

that every choice one has made must have seemed like a good idea at the time, and thus there's little point in regretting past decisions
(self-acceptance)

also i found LSD amongst other psychedelics to be greatly advantageous in the development of aesthetic taste
(increase in appreciation and tactile sensation)

 

[abnortality]

Help me overcome my anxiety from being so self-conscious. I would always be worried about what others thought of me while I was tripping and one day I realized that it doesn't fucking matter.

Life has been beautiful and much more calm since. My confidence is through the roof.