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Unable to integrate, feeling off and positivity fading

ljtr

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Hi, there, firstly I'd like to say I'm not all that sure of self incrimination. I see "don't make any effort, it's annoying as fuck and doesn't do anything" but I also see that it can raise suspicion in certain countries (excluding my own, of course). So whatever. Everything I'm about to say I did in an unmentioned different country wherein all my actions were and remain legal.

I'm fourteen and a few months ago I had two psychedelic experiences, al-lad and psilocybin, and one empathogenic experience, mdma. I was having quite a trouble with seeing the point in things. I'm a sophomore now and each day I wake up, go to school and learn things irrelevant to all that I'd ever consider doing for 7 hours, come home and do some coding, and then go to bed. It's a lot better now but still very much there (I do think that the experiences helped me a lot.) Before them, depending on who I talked to I'd sorta become that person in order to minimize conflict because that's what seemed best but during the al-lad what I was thinking about during the other experiences finally clicked: why does it matter? I'm myself and I'll do me things when me wants and if you don't like it then you can kiss my ass, I'm living in my world. It was REALLY wonderful. For weeks after (though the effect was obviously lessened outside of the states) I was just satisfied not caring much at all and doing what I wanted, since I always had tons of anxiety before I felt like a super genius, things just clicked very fast in my head. I just felt very, very nice. I actually began liking new foods (this hasn't gone away at all! yay). The morning after psilocybin I was offered broccoli fresh from the different country and it tasted fantastic and buttery even though it was just broccoli. I hate broccoli! Well, hated. I feel like I appreciate pleasure, I can just be sitting in a chair and think, "This feels genuinely amazing, how have I never thought about how good this feels?", which hasn't faded now, either.

The other parts were wonderful and all, but now I think I've begun to passively realize that I'm the only one who's thinking like this. The world hasn't changed. My school's still a bunch of fake people who will do things like go to animal shelters and take a picture next to the dogs and post a picture saying they do it all the time and they love it when in reality they hate dogs and just want to look like good people. Especially inside the states I'd have loved to just say, "don't you get it?" I don't know what I'd have said they didn't get but I guess it just doesn't work like that. Now something terrifying has begun to happen to me. Not only am I beginning to try to conform to society again, I'm also dissatisfied. I HATE school now. The way they teach is so ineffective and I don't see how they can't see it in the eyes of the students. You don't teach someone English by shoving hundreds of literary devices down their throat, you tell them to express a subject as best they can and give them resources to learn as they go. I feel like all it's doing is creating a bunch of educated idiots and those who were going to be successful will still be successful and those who weren't still won't.

I hope to legally trip again in the near future and I'm wondering how I can cut loose from all the bullshit I now see. Also, could I be doing any harm to myself? I never intend to do mdma again because I just don't think it's a good idea for me personally. But how about al-lad/lsd/mescaline/psilocybin? My mind is very important to me. I'm looking for long term happiness, not short term. For a summary of the effects I feel aren't going away, I'm much more myself than I was, I feel much more open to new experiences, feelings, foods, etc., and I feel like I don't assume the same value in things others do. But I'm still very confused right now. I feel like I'm at the state of confusion and self-seeking that I'd normally be at after college.
 
You sound like a very intelligent fourteen year old. The best piece of advice I can offer you is to stop doing drugs at such a young age. Your brain is developing right now and drugs will hinder that development. Trust me, I started drugs at around your age and am now 27. Not a day goes by when I wish I would've not started using drugs at such a young age.
Please, for your own good, stop now. Drugs will still be around when you're an adult. Appreciate your youth while you are still young, because before you know it you will be my age and looking on those days with nostalgia and longing.
 
Could I ask what drugs you were doing? I guess just as your younger self would've almost certainly needed I need backed up factual evidence which I guess is a pretty tough demand given that not only is most of this stuff illegal in developed countries where research would be done but nobody's really going to test on kids... Stuff like caffeine binds to receptors without affecting development but marijuana binds to others and does. I have no intent to do the latter so have there been any studies done on whether serotonin receptor agonists that are without damage in older audiences affect development? I haven't been able to find anything and I can't even make an educated guess because though I've heard being severely depressed can affect development, most problems with serotonin seem to be real serotonin's release mechanism so the problems with that are almost likely not even related. Either way, I'm going to trip a maximum of one more time in the next few years and I'm doing this because I feel that the experiences are invaluable, just as a new perspective is, and help me learn how to deal with situations. I may not understand the meaning as much now as I would in 8 years but I feel like what I am getting is more important to me right now.
 
I recommend taking psychedelics when you have experienced more life. Despite what you may think, your brain NEEDS this time to grow and experience life without drugs. I look back on my youth and see the sober times to be more pleasant than the intoxicated ones. I had a fascination with psychedelics around your age like you seem to have. I've been there man... That's why I feel I should warn you.
 
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