LSD relieves anxiety

[MamboDervish]

If there is one thing we know for sure about the brain, it's that we don't know everything about the brain.

Are you sure?

 

[GrowThickerSkin]

This is an interesting study. A single dose of LSD provided lasting relief from anxiety disorder.

I've never taken LSD. Have you, and what are your thoughts on these results?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/health/lsd-anxiety-fda-breakthrough-therapy-wellness/index.html

I've taken it. I suffer from major depressive disorder and a few other anxiety related disorders stemming from PTSD from being raped and physically assaulted (the assaults happened multiple times throughout my life and seemed to become a pattern.)

I am a painter/sculptor and I take it not just to help with the chronic depression but it helps open up my creative centers when I'm feeling blocked. It does help me a lot plus it's fun and entertaining.

 

[GrowThickerSkin]

Are you sure?

That's actually the second person I've seen say this just this week online. I don't know where they are getting this information because there's so many advances in neuroscience and psychology in just the last decade.

 

[GrowThickerSkin]

Maybe the government will legalize it some day but, yeah, I’m done looking for it

I've seen that there's new clinical trials with it. And they use ketamine now in monitored settings. Now that marijuana is being legalized across the board i'm waiting to see shrooms being sold in convenience stores. We already see amanita muscaria but seeing psilocybin will be nice.

 

[GrowThickerSkin]

I wonder if I'm the only person here who has never taken any recreational drugs other than alcohol.

I doubt it. I meet people more these days that don't use any drugs than do. I mean there's a lot of weed users now but I still meet more that don't than do.

 

[GrowThickerSkin]

Personally I think people who take it recreationally are idiots. For medicinal use it may have some benefit, since you mentioned anxiety. Some experiments show that under controlled circumstances it may help some returning combat veterans suffering from PTSD.

Ketamine treatments can be done at home now legally (and they give you therapist/practicioners that monitor and assist you with it) and that has been proven to snap people out of chronic mental health problems faster than most treatments. Ketamine effects are similar to LSD.

 

[GrowThickerSkin]

Duration of the trip?

This never happened to me but I did often taste sound.
Led zeppelin was particularly tasty.

I dunno what the poster is referring to. When I take LSD I go into my own little world and don't even feel the need to socialize during the effects. I'm too busy watching and interpretting all of the visual hallucinations. Favorite spot to go is they shower and watch the movie of wild animals and alien faces and stuff on my shower wall lol.

 

[noonereal]

I dunno what the poster is referring to. When I take LSD I go into my own little world and don't even feel the need to socialize during the effects. I'm too busy watching and interpretting all of the visual hallucinations. Favorite spot to go is they shower and watch the movie of wild animals and alien faces and stuff on my shower wall lol.

I enjoyed looking at posters of fish or animals and watch them swim around the room in vivid colors.

 

[MAGAnificent]

Ketamine treatments can be done at home now legally (and they give you therapist/practicioners that monitor and assist you with it) and that has been proven to snap people out of chronic mental health problems faster than most treatments. Ketamine effects are similar to LSD.

And I have no issues with that. My point was that people who take it for recreational purposes are idiots.

 

[Trippy Trekker]

@Allan - related thread topic:

This is like LSD *watch*

The movie is one of my favs called 'The Rundown.' Imagine taking a few bong rips on some Kush, a lil X, then taking shrooms, drinking 4 expresso's and seeing things lose perspective in size, shape and color. Using your fingers to leave trails in the air, it's some freaky deeky. Very funny vid...

debatepolitics.com

Yeah, I dosed with window pane, purchased in Gainesville FL 1973. I managed that trip reasonably well. The Orange Barrel, at age 15, almost took me over the edge! I left a group of friends at night in an AAMCO Transmission shop after one of the guys kept turning on drills and equipment. The sound flipped me out! I hitchhiked over to our local pool hall. The owner seemed unfazed and unaware of my extreme buzz. Outside, I could see the ultra-blue haze around the city electric wires. I went home and my older brother started screwing with me. He knew the time of day. All a grin now! My mom's oil paintings looked like indiscriminate goey blobs! In the morning, no sleep, I went to work. In those days, I drove a delivery truck for a very busy florist.

Thank you God for letting me live! For the sake of my marriage, I went clean May 5, 2014. I still enjoy the memories. At age 64, I just don't see any gain on dosing anymore.