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The best psychedelic to "reset" your brain - breaking through anxiety, etc.

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DMT wins!
Trip report "DMT - First time - a universe of toys"

I have so much less anxiety after my experience. Really amazing insights about life, death, existence, but no fucking with my head like mushrooms do.
 
feelgoodhit said:
I also have anxiety issues. Psychedelics didn't help - and having anxiety attacks on psychedelics is really, really not fun.

I recommend diaphragmatic breathing (saves my ass all the time), a good therapist, meditation, and journaling. But especially the first three. Diaphragmatic breathing gave me the most immediate results.

I recommend cutting down on psychedelics until you feel you have a better grip on your anxiety. The work you do here on the ground will carry over into your psychedelic trips.
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I agree with you^^

Psychedelics don't magically cure anything it's up to you to change your languish and beliefs to change yourself; Psychedelics only reinforce or point out what you are or give you insights to a better you. You still have to do the foot work.

I find this thread i little irresponsible dishing out advice that psychedelics are a cure all drug. (It may have worked 4 you; remember your dynamics are not the same as the next person)

They could do more damage to people who enter a psychedelic state with the wrong mind set. They are known to also trigger mental illness if your predisposed to it already (Runs In Your Family).

Some people that may stumble on this thread may hurt them selfs.
Do your research, lots of it before you try psychedelics!
there not for every one.
 
During my last acid trip a month ago I managed to completely cure my anxiety.

Before the trip I had been on benzos for a few years constantly. I had managed to taper my dose down quite a lot. I had been without benzos for a few days prior to tripping so my anxiety was always accompanied by physical symptoms, such as tight chest, palpitations, dry eyes, twitching, etc.

Whilst tripping I noticed that I could recognise the physical symptoms that would normally accompany my anxiety but I wasn't anxious at the time. I began to see them as two different things rather than two parts of anxiety. Throughout the rest of the trip I stayed with this mindset and I was anxiety free.

After the trip I attempted to continue this thought pattern. I experienced a hell of a lot of physical symptoms but I continued to not associate them with anxiety.

It has now been 4 weeks since that trip and I am not really getting many physical symptoms any more, but situations that would have caused me great anxiety in the past cause minimal amounts of anxiety now. Nothing debilitating anymore.

I'm not sure that this will work for everyone as not everyone has physical symptoms that occur alongside their anxiety. Hope this can help someone else though.
 
anonymous_mouse said:
So, I have an extremely terrible anxiety problem (you can read more about it in TDS "Entrapped in darkness.."). If I'm off medication, I experience "bad trip" feelings and thoughts sober. If I'm on medication, I can trip just fine on low doses.

But I want to face my fear and eventually go off medication. I basically want to "reformat" my brain so that I can create pathways to healthier states of mind. I need a drastic change of perspective to break away from my fear and become a completely person psychologically - one who has a calm awareness about life, and a trust that the universe is inherently well-ordered, safe, and loving.

I think psychedelics can help with this, but which one is the best? Ibogaine is out - there have been some deaths associated with it, and I am too terrified of physical death to try it. I was thinking maybe a high dose mushroom trip, one that would be strong enough to kill my ego so I can rebuild it.
What else might be good?

Thanks in advance... peace
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The electron! Electroshock therapy FTW!



If you have an ego-shattering trip, you won't be able to focus on rebuilding your ego. Try something lighter that'll lend insight into yourself.
 
I am with the bunch who say that Psychedelics and MDMA are not the answer.

To me it is very much a russian roulette with all barrels loaded except for one. While there is a chance that you find them useful, there is even a BIGGER chance of them exasperating the situation. From a harm reduction point of view, pretty much the only contraindication for psychedelics is an underlying mental disorder, and this is the situation at hand.

I guess I can't resist but drop the reference here: the "Reset" phenomenon is commonly attributed to Ketamine (not a psychedelic), enough so to catch medical attention (cf. Jansen, Groff).
 
mdma for me is to closely linked to alot of bad memories and anxiety,
shrooms for me too closely linked to vomiting, and on the 10gram dose i took i lost my body got kicked out became a homeless person who got addicted to drugs,
my last lsd trip helped me get over some things, i find lsd isn't as scary and emotionally variable as shrooms, but thats just me
 
If you have anxiety Maybe psychedelics aren't best for you to take at this point. I have had terrible feelings of anxiety but I've learned that I only have problems that don't matter to the human collective, therefore not making them important problems. I had come to this conclusion through the use of DMT and I can only describe it as being "reborn" or possibly "cured".
 
As others have said, this could go either way. Having said that, I believe psychedelics were necessary (but not alone sufficient - psychotherapy and other modalities were also necessary) in dramatically ameliorating my own anxiety disorder (specifically, OCD). Part of the value was precisely what you're looking to avoid: I experienced levels of raw animal terror beyond what I'd ever known. And I survived. And hence, I lost some of the "fear of fear itself" which is such a huge part of anxiety disorders. So for me, the terror was integral to effectuating anxiety reduction. Low dose, "safe" trips had no lasting impact (though they did sometimes reduce anxiety dramatically for one to four days following).

But that's my experience (and it's oversimplified too). Bottom line, there's a definite but unknowable risk that psychedelics could make your problem worse rather than better, at least in short to medium term.
 
TO anonymous_mouse
Plain and simple, good ol' Lysergic Acid Dyethylamine.
In its pure form, no other drug (in my opinion) compares to it.
And the reason i say is. This past new years I took lsd with 3 people i would consider close friends, people i am comfortable taking drugs around. During that trip i felt myself to be open with these people more than any other occasion.
Within a week of dosing I noticed that I was a lot more comfortable around coworkers and other friends(or random girls, hah). And to this day, a month later i still find my anxiety fading away.
This is something i was also searching for anonymous_mouse. I hope this helps you.

Peace,
DTHM
 
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