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lsd addiction?

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Have recently found myself taking and craving lsd on a regular basis. Still consider myself inexperienced when it comes to lsd as have only tripped about twenty times. But over the last month have tripped about 10 times. Am having a break for at least month now which I know I need.

But was just wondering about other peoples thoughts and experiences when it comes to lsd addiction.

Peace.
 
It's certainly not known to be physically addictive. There are no LSD withdrawals. Any addiction you develop is psychological in nature. That said, anything you enjoy can become habit forming. I would say normal principles apply: if it's getting in the way of important responsibilities or you feel it's having a negative impact on your life, you probably need to stop or at least cut back. It can be difficult to remain firmly grounded in reality if you trip _too_ often, but that's not to say it can't be done; I know people who trip quite frequently and have successful careers, relationships, etc. I also know a few who ended up worse for the wear after excessive psychedelic use. Personally, I've found 2C-I to have somewhat addictive properties (it's consistently euphoric, has limited tolerance, stimulating, no crash, few downsides to speak of... all the ingredients for compulsive use) but, other than feeling kinda bored at first when I run out and feel the urge to trip but can't, I haven't noticed any negative side effects.
 
About 15 years ago, A friend and I came across some very potent blotter. I usually only took half a hit of that stuff, sometimes even a quarter. A whole hit was only for special occasions. We ended up buying 50 hits, 25 each. It took me almost 10 years to finish mine (~5 trips a year), while he took them all within a month!

Granted, he had a higher natural tolerance than me, but he also didn't bother to wait for tolerance to wear off after a trip. He knew perfectly well, but he just took higher doses because he didn't want to wait. As a result he was a bit out there at the time, but nothing serious. Later he moderated his use and landed again. I never considered him addicted, but he was obsessed with tripping for sure (as are a lot of us to a certain degree).

For me it was slightly different. I tried tripping more often, but ~5 times a year for acid works best. Ok, add to that 5 to 10 trips on different psychedelics, but my aim is at least a month beteen trips. I found that if I trip more often, I get less out of the experience. Try for yourself what interval between trips works best for you. Don't trade quality for quantity, keep the experience magical.
 
In theory I believe in well spaced out trips - seemingly the less well spaced the trips the less well spaced the user :)


Maybe you ought to look at whether you're using it for escapist purposes & if that escapist need is accelerating - if so why so - ask a psychotherapist if you wish :)
 
if you dose too much lsd it can loose its magic like any chemical. its not a good thing to do in excess, in my opinion. you will begin to create world of your own though so enjoy it while its there, explore and what not :D
 
Anything pleasant and enjoyable can be called addictive. But it's not really - it's just pleasant and enjoyable. There's a difference between something being pleasant and something being addictive.

I enjoy having a wank every now and again but I wouldn't say I'm addicted to it.
 
I know a lot of people who formed a habit with LSD, i was one of them.

I would be dosing 2-3 times a month for years, i was looking for an answer.. and each trip brought me closer to that answer, i knew i wouldn't stop until i found it. Unfortunately the negative effects of such excessive use become very clear and visible not only to you but those around you, and you eventually forget how to just 'relax' and calm your thoughts. The worst part is (and i've seen a friend become this entirely) is you'll try pull meaning from every single action in life, what is seen to be simple.. the person using LSD to excess would derive complex meaning from it while sober.. which begins to weigh down on you over time.

I'd ask yourself why your using it as much as you are? Pleasure? Purpose? Then i think you will get a clearer answer.
 
I normally use LSD in binges, once I take a dose I normally don't want to sober up. i've gotten to the point where i can sleep on LSD and wake up tripping by redosing at key times. I find that its hard to habituate without another habit to facilitate the rest that ones body would need post the intense strain LSD brings. I have tripped for three days, the third day I was looking foward to be able to take fucking piss in less then twenty mins without having to think through every step (walk to bathroom ect).
It is fun, we like to do fun things. It also lasts 12 hours, which means that if you start using it to escape it is terribly effective at this task.
Eventually the effect will stop more or less at reasonable doses, I know a kid who did not trip on less then a drop of ten initial tabs. This makes tripping impossible, the addiction ends. After abuse like this one will likely be changed, not necessarily for the better or worse. Ones body can rebound and brain chemistry will not be greatly altered. Not recommended.
 
I think I had week a few months ago at the tale end of two weeks of doing it every two or three days at fairly moderate doses where all I could do was think, talk and dream (doubt I could string together words properly) about acid, getting more acid, exsistential crap etc. Think that was the closest I actually came to having any form of mental addiction, though I don't think I ever had cravings as I found it too mentally exhausting.
 
malakaix said:
I would be dosing 2-3 times a month for years, i was looking for an answer.. and each trip brought me closer to that answer, i knew i wouldn't stop until i found it.
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Did you find the answer you were looking for? I am looking for an answer, but fear I will never find it. I have taken a long break from my trips (used to be monthly or so). I have the urge to start searching again, but fear I will never find what I am looking for.
 
When I have LSD on hand I can't stop myself from taking it. I got 20 strong hits once and I went through all of them in a month. LSD doesn't even work well if you dose too often but I would just take more and more. I just don't have any self control when I've got the drugs in my hand. Luckily the good stuff only comes trough my area on holidays. I like it that way, I'm forced to take breaks for several months at a time. I don't think it would be possible for me to be addicted to this stuff, I'm just feeble minded.
 
toomuchtv said:
Did you find the answer you were looking for? I am looking for an answer, but fear I will never find it. I have taken a long break from my trips (used to be monthly or so). I have the urge to start searching again, but fear I will never find what I am looking for.
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Eventually i did, although the answer came to me during a breakthrough DMT trip. LSD provided a lot of the pieces of the puzzle.. but never the whole picture.. it would constantly bring up a duality in my self.. two conclusions that were complete opposites, DMT collapsed this duality into one.. and revealed everything, it's incredibly powerful.

Of course this is completely subjective of the individual.. im just sharing my experience.

Peace :)
 
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I once tripped every weekend for a month and a half. By the end of it I was losing grip and my work started to suffer because of it.

A good break will help. Focus on your own development and well-being. By now you're familiar with psychedelic thinking; try to make it a part of your life without the drugs.
 
solistus said:
Personally, I've found 2C-I to have somewhat addictive properties (it's consistently euphoric, has limited tolerance, stimulating, no crash, few downsides to speak of... all the ingredients for compulsive use) but, other than feeling kinda bored at first when I run out and feel the urge to trip but can't, I haven't noticed any negative side effects.
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absolutely agreed. 2c-i was the most compulsive psychedelic I'VE ever used, for many of the reasons you've mentioned. i took it for a solid two months, tripping at least every 2-3 days. it could get strange as all hell, which i loved, but always lacked the (often crushing) introspection of shrooms/lsd... i only stopped when i ran out. definitely left me (noticeably, according to friends) a little spun out 8) , but! no clearly definable side effects aside from my relatively agreeable short-term HPPD (yes, i was hallucinating constantly, but i didnt have a steady job so that was ok) strange times, tho, especially considering i take psychs usually for a quite different reasons than when taking 2c-i
 
LSD is not addictive although you may very much enjoy the experience especially if you are new to psychedelics. Therefore when people [including myself] find a new experience or they like they tend to binge on it thinking it is the funnest way to waste time ever but as others have said it looses its magic and this will eventually end your binge.

Personally I have gone on a LSD binge for a few months straight, it started off as a challenge between friends and turned into a self experimentation. I was convinced I could train my mind to keep the connections that this compound can make you receive by staying high on it for an extended period of time, thus making me a natural genius. This experiment failed and resulted in a very hard process of adjusting back to reality.
 
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