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lsd weekly for anxiety

Oh sorry benny, if you meant by games that LSD can be unpredictable and can have unintented effects like kidklmx also illustrates here, then I agree. It can definitely be healing, but to expect that effect maybe it needs to be at least a little bit obvious what the matter is.
LSD can help with stuff, but at the same time complicate everything further. Just like it can answer some questions, but then raise even more questions than you already had...
I know what LSD helps me with and I have occasionally used psychedelics partially or completely intending to remedy it, but I always accept that it is a package deal and I will go through the trip, whatever happens.

@Kid: well yes you see that a lot, but there are many more issues. I have known for a long time that I don't deal well with uncertainty and particular kinds of unclarity. I guess it is a control thing (so losing control maybe is another fear or anxiety factor), and I probably have a form of high-functioning autism that is not very apparent (getting a study in a week to get that sorted, but it will explain a LOT).
If people are afraid of death, are they more afraid of the uncertain nature of death or the fact that they lose a lot? (which is kind of weird if you think about it because if you are dead, you don't miss anything - I guess that would depend on if someone believes in life after death though :D ).
Anyway it's difficult for me to say what the therapeutic value or power of ego-death can be. I've had an experience with 5-MeO-DMT plus dissociatives, IMed, recently that was extremely intense and ego-obliterating. It helped a bit by resetting a few things but most of my issues are quite persistent.
To answer your question: I think that sometimes ego-deaths can help a lot with identity-related issues or maybe fear of death (N,N-DMT helped me most to overcome that for quite a big part) but even if it helps you grow and expand your sense of self, how you relate to the world, and to reassure a few things... this expansion can present a new set of challenges.
Also, sometimes anxiety can come from factors like chronic stress and/or withdrawing from benzo's (in my case) which feels like it leaves me very vulnerable to a very physical kind of anxiety even though I have no idea what there is that I am anxious about... it's just not that simple I guess. :\
 
Bad trips could happen whether you're a once in a lifetime user or weekly user or whatever. Having LSD more regularly increases the likelihood of a bad trip because you are having more trips, not because having more trips makes you extra susceptible to bad ones (if you follow). And I'd probably add that with experience with LSD comes the ability to better assess a situation as to how conducive it is to a good/bad trip as well as guide your thoughts on it and go with the flow of the trip without freaking out.
 
Oh sorry benny, if you meant by games that LSD can be unpredictable and can have unintented effects like kidklmx also illustrates here, then I agree. It can definitely be healing, but to expect that effect maybe it needs to be at least a little bit obvious what the matter is.
LSD can help with stuff, but at the same time complicate everything further. Just like it can answer some questions, but then raise even more questions than you already had...
I know what LSD helps me with and I have occasionally used psychedelics partially or completely intending to remedy it, but I always accept that it is a package deal and I will go through the trip, whatever happens.
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LSD is pretty much a sacrament to me. I take LSD more seriously than almost everyone I've ever met. I don't use it as a recreational drug. I used to, but then I realized that by partying on acid, I was ruining one of the most powerful medicines ever discovered. It's almost crazy how seriously I take LSD. I have a whole religious-like ritual when I take it. Ever since the ritualistic nature of my dosing, I've had such profound revelations that I know that LSD has changed my life. For better or worse? What do those really mean? Is there a better or worse? Either way, LSD has helped me with depression issues, anxiety issues, spiritual dilemma's, so on and so forth. To take tiny doses of something like LSD every week to help with anxiety seems almost sacrilegious (btw, I'm throwing around a lot of religious terms, but that's for effect, I'm not actually religious about this, it's close though). LSD - in my mind - is something you take to look at your problems in a way you couldn't possibly have seen before. It's a way to see your issues, to look them in the eye, to grab the bull by the horns, and to face your fears. It has always been pretty successful for me. Most people think I'm insane because I trip when I'm having issues, and I find LSD to be pointless unless you take what most people would consider a heroic dose. Last time I accidentally took 900mcg 8o. I didn't realize it until my source told me he double dropped the tabs. I didn't freak out, I didn't get scared. I used this amazing opportunity because I probably would never take that much willingly. It was the only time I know, for sure, that I reached a transcendent ++++ experience. I was having issues with substance abuse at the time. Nothing too serious, but something that needed to be nipped in the bud. I was tripping so hard that I was everything and nothing at the same time, I was addiction and I was the cure. I could see addiction, not symbolically, I'm being literal, as clear as day I saw what addiction looks like. I had complete and total synethsia which is one of the most amazing experiences in my life. When I started to come back to reality, I realized that there is no way to get more fucked up than what just happened. That I just reached what I called "terminal intoxication" the point where no matter what you ever take again, nothing will make you more inebriated than this experience. After that I realized there was no point in ever using a drug because nothing would ever compare... Besides weed, I did not use until 4 days ago. My first real relapse in a long time. Most people just simply don't understand where I'm coming from, and many people think I'm insane or have fried my brain on LSD. Funnily enough, I've probably only done it 10 times total and I can distinctly remember each one.

So it's hard for me to hear that someone wants to use it to suppress anxiety. In my mind, LSD is never to suppress anything, but to overcome it. All that being said, I don't ever feel like I should tell people what to do or how they should use something. I was simply expressing my unique opinion.

Oh, and though I use it as a medicine in a serious way, I'm not going to deny that it feels really good and can be super fun! %)

Btw, if someone wants to know my ritual, PM me. Other people I've taught it to swear by it now.
 
It's analogous to trying to cure epilepsy with a strobe light. At best it will have no effect on your anxiety and at worse it will compound it.
 
bennyZA said:
All that being said, I don't ever feel like I should tell people what to do or how they should use something. I was simply expressing my unique opinion.

Oh, and though I use it as a medicine in a serious way, I'm not going to deny that it feels really good and can be super fun! %)
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Thanks for acknowledging that, so many psychedelic users seem to be on just one side of the fence. Either they swear by it as a medicine fanatically and seem to look down upon those who just want to have fun, or they just want to have fun and don't seem to care much about how strong experiences the drug can actually induce (as in taking it too lightly).

Solipsis said:
Combating your fears is quite different from anxiety IMO, well there are different sorts of roots for both anxiety and fears but if there is a particular things you are afraid of then you can try to face those fears and overcome them.
Anxiety is something that can come from a factor you can find out about do so something about, or find out about but unable to change. Or the third option: it is very common for people to get anxiety but it is often FAR from obvious what the reason for it is. LSD could help release and reset some fixations and hangups but sooner or later that anxiety is likely to come creeping back.

I agree about the therapeutic setting, but with one single dose I think you are being a bit optimistic... that is to say unrealistic.
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True, I may have been a bit optimistic actually. And you are right anxiety doesn't always have to be correlated to fear.
 
I think that taking LSD to address your inner issues can be really helpful. I think that you need to mentally provide for your trip. Think about and write about your anxiety. Talk it over with a shrink. Then once you've come to a point that you can face your anxiety without drugs. I would then take a solo trip out in nature.

I did that and it helped immensely.
 
Solipsis said:
it's just not that simple I guess. :\
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If it was then there wouldn't really be a discussion now would it? :D

Well, ego-death is Kazimierz Dabrowski's Disintegration Theory (which you kindly pointed me towards, though Claudio Naranjo deserves a honorable mention too) in the very extreme of course. Ego-death is the ultimate realization of anxiety and anguish, and according to him at least, that anxiety is needed for personal growth. You're forcing yourself a state where you're taking full-control of your developmental process. Without the right guidance this is nighly impossible, because it's just very overwhelming.

A good example of this is why shamanistic Aya rituals in the Amazon seem much more effective than just taking a huge dose at home. It's the whole process of reflecting, intentions, talking to the shaman that gives it a higher success rate than taking it in your room at nighttime and then going on with your life the following day. Another would be Iboga where the multiple stages guide you through this process and the stages in a much more coherent fashion.

Not to discount your experience in any way, but for that idea 5-Meo-DMT+Ketamine+MXE is just to short, extreme and confusing to completely allow you to take control of your new self. But that's not to say such an ass-whooping can't be helpful, especially not if it did in fact reset things. Maybe these are baby-steps, but these are still steps. Just a different idea on how psychedelic therapy would actually work.

Obviously that work is just a theory, but it speaks a lot for psychedelic therapy and why it would work where it given the right expertise and tools. It's not a 1-trip deal, but an entire process surrounding it. It needs to be given the right use case too, as obviously it is not a surefire way to perfect mental health. Especially with Autism for example, where the entire thing is rooted much further in the character than someone with a more general malaise due to depression.

Anyway, this is all based on an armchair-understanding of things so I'll shut up for now :)
 
I'd tread lightly if you have anxiety. Take a small amount and don't think you can trip every few days or once a week and not pay a price, life is long.
For me my anxiety comes from trying to figure out what to do later, not doing what the moment dictates. Tripping can get your thoughts going fast and ruin
the now.
 
Another thing that may help with anxiety is Valerian root, though it tastes kind of like mustiness. LSD could make a person more anxious than normal at times. I'm actually surprised that you find it reduces anxiety but I guess if you say it does then maybe it does.
 
When I first started doing LSD (100mcg) it did wonders for my anxiety. It acted as an anxiolytic while I was on it. I intended to self-medicate bi-weekly with it, but I was soon faced with a bad trip when I did more than my usual dosage. Ever since I started doing LSD my overall anxiety levels seemed to have reduced permanently, but the bad trip did put me in a state of depression/anxiety until I was able to integrate my experience. I think that doing LSD, or other psychedelics, once in awhile to help overcome some issues will be healthier in the long run. I think using it weekly would put your mind outside of reality.

I'm not sure if you're interested in alternative methods to improve your anxiety, but exercise, eating healthy, and socializing do wonders for me. I had no idea how much my symptoms could improve by doing any one of those three things.
 
The same person who said it will not back-fire said it caused them a psychotic break. Another who said it cured anxiety also claim it caused a depressive anxiety state.
It has always seemed self-evident to me why one does not self-medicate. I guess it needs to be gone over.
I have anxiety. Everyone has anxiety. I have a test in 2 hours and will not study until the last minute. This is normal.
An abnormal condition, also refered to as anxiety, is an inability to cope with threatening, typically imaginary, future events. Physical signs include sweating and trembling.
If you actually had anxiety, which I doubt, you would not be able to medicate yourself. You are trying to prescribe something for no illness. A sick person is no condition to make reasonable decisions about dosages, reactions, and so on. It requires an external observer.
Choosing LSD to self-medicate is more or less nonsense to validate your frequent use without labeling it as addiction or dependence.
 
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Has anyone also thought about the fact that it would be pretty damn easy to just take a little more till you are tripping every week. If it helps with anxiety, you are probably feeling somewhat intoxicated/euphoric, so why not double, then triple the dose. That's why self medication is never a good thing, especially with something as powerful as LSD I also feel like the days right after dosing will suck, like you're coming down all the time.

If LSD started to get used as an anti-anxiety med in the future that was prescribed by doctors, I would be so, so sad. High Schooler's would steal their mom's stash and the people who would be abusing would have no appreciation for the drug. Then they would make tamper proof versions, and if the pharmaceutical pills exist, who would bother making clandestine LSD
 
When tolerance kicks in properly it aint as easy as just taking more, you just start to get more side effects then and the whole trip in itself isn't the same. Very, very lack luster and more of an energy boost than trip.

I think low doses are more head frying than a high doses because it's better to be fully in that caught between sober and tripping leading to you being disorientated and confused.

Do whatever works for you. There's a lot of talk here but no actual proof that this can lead to negative problems. There are plenty of people out there who were probably tripping a good few times more than once a week at LSDs peak and they've came out okay. In fact most people seem to and dosing on a weekly basis is fairly common although it tends to be periods of doing this as I feel tolerance catches up. But at the same time keep a grip on things, if you feel yourself getting depressed stop doing it. I think long-term you'll run into tolerance issues, I did.

There are worse things you could be doing when it comes to negative side effects such as taking xanax or valium. I noticed these have caused me more hassle as I'm now trying to fill in major memory blanks that I'm only now hearing of.

Only thing is it might be worth looking at alternative psychedelics, I'd recommend something like Psilocin/4-AcO-DMT/etc as these don't have the big energy, almost stimulant like side to LSD and have a shorter duration meaning they would be much more suitable for weekly dosing. I also find them much more rewarding for anxiety related things. I know there are definitely some posts here of people eating shrooms once a week with no negative side effects whatsoever for long periods.

At the same time, like all drugs with anxiety, use it only as a crutch not a fix. Meaning you need to actually try and get to the root of yourself and get over it by other means too such as exercise, better diet, trying to change what is making you anxious etc. LSD wont do that for you but it may possibly help line things up so you can.
 
pmoseman said:
What are you talking about?
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I'm seeing all these claims that supposedly this will lead to negative mental health etc but I see no proof. Plenty of people have used LSD for a weekly basis for long periods of time with no ill effects, even just take a look and see if there is a rise in schizophrenia etc. Yes there may be better options but this could be better than caining benzos if done right.
 
With those that have done this for anxiety, do micro-doses work? Seems like a much safer route

Err, xTalK, you can't really get any accurate data on schizophrenia because before LSD was a thing psychiatry was very different, and what constituted to schizophrenia then doesn't really relate to now. Or something like that, don't really remember the exact reasoning but it's true at least. At any rate, LSD can cause psychotic episodes (there are multiple users on here who have had one directly related to a bad trip, so don't tell me it's not true) and taking LSD weekly can lead to that. Especially if you take ~350ug each week, like the OP.

Anyway, it's a worn-out debate and the only thing I really have to say about it is this: Why take the risk?
 
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It'd be interesting to figure out an LSD dose (or other well known psych such as psilocybin) just barely below the threshold of any actual effects, and be "prescribed" on it every day. Wonder what sort of effects it would have on someones overall persona subconsciously.

lol as my friend said during a trip, and the words I'll never forget as they were hilarious at 4 grams of dried,"y'know you'd probably be fine if you ate shrooms everyday. just you'd probably end up living in a forest naked, and just be really smart"
 
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