LSD for depression?

[Mm80]

I've considered the possibility of taking psychedelics as a way to self medicate and to try and tackle my depression. It's something that is still being researched and studied. There's evidence to show that LSD may help with depression but there's also evidence that it may make your depression worse. LSD seems to affect everybody differently and you can't tell if you're going to have a bad/good trip.

If I was able to get my hands on some then I'd give it a try but it's definitely risky. There still needs to be a lot of research to be done because I don't think we really know for sure how and why LSD works the way it does.

I can see a new slogan coming on right now....
Lsd for depression. Why catch the bus when you can fly....

 

[checkouttime]

I can see a new slogan coming on right now....
Lsd for depression. Why catch the bus when you can fly....

If you go off all the 'horror' stories, people were flying(or thought they could)....through windows........ and CTB

now theres a thought..........certainly no survival instinct there!

 

[DominusWreck]

I had the same experience. Pure unfiltered raw terror is the only word for it. I was pulling my hair and going insane at the peak, i was SO close to calling an ambulance several times so they could put me under anesthesia or something to escape. This drug can literally make you experience hell for hours on hours, and you cant bail once you've started.

Finally I found someone with the same horrific experience. Everyone else is like nah, u must have taken something else. It should be visuals and pretty stuff right?

Shit, I still remember everything that happened, as if it was yesterday, even though I usually forget shit pretty quickly. I guess people who do LSD usually are hippy trippy peace love flowers like people already and they just get this feeling amplified. So they have fancy experiences.

And people who are blackpilled like me get their dark soul vision of the world amplified, so we get engulfed in the horror and terror that our brains learned to keep at bay usually. It breaks free and tortures you.

Shit fuck that.

 

[clayp]

I had a bad trip on lsd, personally I dont think it's for depression. Mostly a recreational thing.

 

[CrazyMary]

I wouldn´t recommend it. In my case I tried it a couple of times in the last few years and it was fun and whatever. Last year it did give me muscle spasms. This year I ended up back with a psychiatrist, have been on heavy medication for 7 months now, lithium, etc. She told me it might have been cause due to my recreational drug use. I guess it all comes down to genetics. To some it might be all fun and games, to others it can just release ezquisophrenia , anxiety or a personality disorder that you already have inside

 

[Umbrellaterm]

And if I set a particular ctb date I wanna break bad and try coke and even heroin

Overrated shit if you ask me. Especially heroin.
Fuck I hate heroin. All I did was puke.

Amphetamines on the other hand .. laced with metamphetamine? Fuck that's good. Too good for the brain in fact that's why you can't be a recreational user.

 

[royalfuzz]

I've heard of people micro dosing mushrooms and having good results from it.
There are also ketamine treatments now that seem quite promising!

 

[Deleted member 22650]

Not to brag or anything but ive came out of depression and fall back in couple times now and I understand that depression isn't a illness, depression is a state of mind and nothing can cure it other than urself, you choose to get out by doing self benificient things, like having a job, going to the gym, seeing your friends, find stuff to do, try to grow everyday kinda thing, listen to positive music, you get in by doing self decrprecated (however that word is written) thing not doing anything, sleeping alot, not eating enough, eating bad food, not going out, thinking about your mistake and stuff like that, there for there is no medication that will cure, technically being sad, broken, depress means their is not enough seratonine or dopamine (whatever the feel good hormone is) in your system, the medication they prescribe is not feel good hormone, its a feel nothing pill, which is even more boring, you can only increase your dopamine level by having good life habits, and its wayyy easier to lose then to gain, you can always use drugs for quick boost but it wont last and you feel even worse after, hopefully its helps :)

Technically right now I could fall down that spiral if I wanted but I'm choosing not to, but I could, even tho its hard.

 

[Gnip]

Ketamine was used with me in a bid to boost the efficacy of my ECT treatments in 2014 and 2015. All it did was leave me feeling sick, as if I had the mother of all hangovers.

However, the state of Oregon just legalized psilocybin mushrooms, and decriminalized meth and an assortment of other drugs. Now California's going to make an attempt to surpass what's been done in Oregon. (The measure overwhelmingly passed even in Republican strongholds like Jackson and Currie counties which went for Trump. Previously, voters in Michigan who went for Trump in 2016 also overwhelmingly voted to legalize marihuana in 2018.)

The drug legalization train is speeding, and there is no possibility of stopping it. Meanwhile, move to Oregon if you have the wherewithal, or plan for a move to the west coast of the United States in the coming years if you're not living there already.

 

[Nicebuddimtim]

I had some lsd earlier this year and the actual experience was good but I found the after effects really strange for a month or 2 after I had a glow inside but it faded and I feel my depression worsened maybe that's when I should've taken more

 

[CoalmineCanary]

When younger, I tried LSD.

I am currently investigating this:

 

[Hybrid]

For me , LSD gives me lots of sadness. Last time i did, cried lots and thought about cutting my neck with a knife.

I think about lsd as a way to suppress all my cope mechanisms and make all the accumulated depression come in a moment. I will probably use it as suicide-fuel when the correct time to cbt comes.

 

[kovkay]

Yeah LSD helped a lot with depression. However after using it bi-weekly for a couple of months - I fell into a psychosis. So don't do that lol. The psychosis completely destroyed my life for a couple of years, due to the anti-psychotic I had to take. Luckily, I don't have any symptoms after coming off it. Also, you can get HPPD. Look it up. Make sure you know all the risks before going into it. Imho, a psychosis and HPPD are far worse than depression but that's just me.

 

[lmon]

I've heard about LSD being a treatment for depression/anxiety and was wondering if anyone here has had experience with this? Even if it's self medicated?

I've been around drugs a bit but never really had any interest or I guess I'm scared/cautious of how they would effect me, especially something like psychadelics which can have adverse affects on your mental. I'm curious if anyone has considered this an option or what their thoughts on this are.

lsd is the reason I'm here. helped cause psychosis and gave me hppd and schizophrenia with negative symptoms. the negative symptoms to me manifest in in ability to experience pleasure. I cant feel music or laugh or orgasm. I cant be interested in anything not evenTV. this is why I'm here.besides eithinasia, I'm only passionate about drugs being bad. other than that I dont care about anything. I will be ctb one day because it ruined my brain and took my soul. I didn't "find myself" on lsd lmao that's a joke.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I did LSD in high school. Had good trips and bad trips. Never felt like throwing myself out a window, though. Think that's PCP that does that. Pretty sure LSD burns out brain cells over time. Thing is, you never know what you're getting on the street. Could be laced with other stuff, bad stuff. One of my relatives smoked a "bad" joint and it messed him up for life. Was never the same. We're talking SSI disability never the same. Glad I quit all that shit. I don't remember my "feelings" ever changing when on LSD, so can't understand how it would help depression. I think it's just a short escape from reality, same as from alcohol, or whatever. Then the "same" old you comes back after coming down.

 

[Cancún]

I friend of mine well a person a know
Lsd kill his dick no more sex for him

 

[befree]

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