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What does your come up/ trip anxiety consist of?

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Hi everyone, this is my first thread and one of my first posts. I've been coming to Bluelight (specifically PD) for over a year now and have gotten so much useful information from everything on hear. I finally decided to contribute since it has helped me out so much in the past. Anyways...

I've got plenty of trips under my belt to know what's going on in the psychedelic world. I wouldn't consider myself a 'psychonaut' , more of a purveyor of psychedelic experiences :D I've had a few bad trips (3 gnarly ones) but obviously many many fantastic ones. When I'm coming up on a psych, I always get the same, almost irrational fear that I must force myself to get over (I like the mental challenge). It's always that I've accidentally dosed myself to much this time and I'm gonna die. Haha crazy I know, and it even seems crazier to me as I type it, but I ALWAYS have to get over this hump when I trip. It doesn't matter if it's one drop, one tab, or I've weighed it out 10 times, I always fear I've fucked up somehow. I never have any other problems or fears, doesn't really matter what's going on in my life, if things are incredibly positive or incredibly negative I still have a good time tripping. I just have to convince myself I'm not gonna die and everything is going to be A-ok.

Does anyone else have any re-occuring anxieties they get when they trip? Also, any advice on how to possibly eliminate anxiety before and during a trip would be great (I know benzos work and shit but I'm all about riding out the drug on it's own!)
 
i get the exact same thing many times. Lots of thoughts like 'i'm never doing this to myself again', 'Could the vendor have mixed up the substances', 'why am i even doing this?' which sometimes ends up in massive confusion or a realization of euphoria. I think it's a fear we have taking such risks with unknown substances and fear for chemical mixups that have ended people's lives. I really scared myself when i accidentally took 15mg of 25i-nbome. The thought occurred to me while tripping that no one else should mess with something this potent, just a tiny tiny little drop in your nose and it could be too much. Although i love 25i-nbome, one of my favourite trips, i just cannot take it because it's too easy to fuck up or something weird to happen and overdose.

I get so many weird, strange feelings on psychedelics, i don't really hear anyone else talk about them but i'm sure otherse do. My come ups on 2c-e would push me to the max anxiety possible and i would twitch, do weird things with my hands, anything to keep me focused and then it would hit and it would all change. But that anxiety is uniquely bad. Tonight i was sick and took 60mg of DXM and it brought back so many memories of my DXM trips and tons of other psychedelic use. Sometimes those tripping states of mind scare me when i think of them while sober.

i also constantly counted my doses in my head over and over again with DXM. Try figuring out how many pills you gobbled down while on a high 3rd plateau trip lol. I'd get so confused and mess up the math every single time.
 
Yeah, that sounds like a pretty common fear on the comeup. Definitely experienced it myself a number of times even though I'm very methodical about weighing, substance ID etc. Have you seen the family guy episode where Chris & his friends take mushrooms & one of them says "We shouldn't a did this man..."? Definitely felt that a time or two as well, ha. It almost always clears up after I come all the way up & kinda level out though.

I think the process of changing states of consciousness is almost always going to be a little jarring. Helps ne to find something to Occupy myself with or maybe have a beer or two. More than that will blunt the psychedelic effects though so I try not to overdo it.
 
taking a dissociative(even a treshold dose) a little bit before dosing the psychedelic alway rids me of come up anxiety.
taking the psychedelic nasaly(if possible) shortens the anxiety for me too.
 
The sudden shift in reality gives me a very nervous temperament, more so if I've taken a lot. It tends to happen at the point where the changes are almost imperceptible, but the subtle feeling of the world as I know it slipping into something else puts me on edge. As the effects become more noticeable, it tends to devolve into a fear that this is the trip that will finally drive me insane. Depression opens up into existential gloom and fear that spans infinitely into oblivion. Then a few minutes later, I'm over it, comfortable, and well adjusted to an exciting new experience.

Being active, even if it's just walking, will help you a lot with come-up anxiety. The more you sit around giving your mind time to mull over its 'predicament', the worse the anxiety becomes.
 
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