hang in there, for me it just got better yesterday. but it was hell for 3 months, wow unbelievable what human mind is capable of. i was about to commit a suicide. talk to people about it, let it out, dont force it to go away, let it in, let it take you over and then it will fade away. sports, good food, good vibes, early to bed all those things are necessary.
Hey so I did shrooms exactly 3 weeks ago tomorrow 2 days before my birthday. I was stupid and took 3 grams then drank a whole lot of orange juice and took some big dabs because I wasn't tripping like I thought I was supposed to. (I had no idea what shrooms really did, I thought they were just going to be fun and games and make everything look weird and funny for a couple of hours) After getting off work I came home and one of my roommates had an early birthday "present" for me and I was feeling extremely uncomfortable about taking them but they talked me into doing it at around 10:30 pm. Saying I had a bad trip would be a huge understatement, I don't want to go into detail with what I saw it experienced but it was horrible. I still don't exactly remember everything that happened during my trip but it has been coming back to me slowly. I was pretty fine about it except that all I could think about was my trip up until a little over a week ago. I'm a heavy marijuana smoker and I smoked and it fealt like I was in my trip again. I've had a lot of "What if" questions that u had before my trip but not to this extent. I doubt reality sometimes and just don't know where my head is right now I go through infinite possibilities about what reality could really be in my head and it gives me anxiety. I haven't been able to sleep well at night and the other night I had a dream (flashback?) of my trip I was back to one of the parts of my trip and I woke up sweating and goosebumps and scared out of my mind but i fealt like I knew I was having this nightmare and couldn't get out of it. Coming across this has really brought back hope and I hope that by following what others have done I can recover. I also get paranoid when I am in my room because that is where I tripped so I try to avoid being in my room now. I doubt reality and in my head I think there is more to life than what I believe. (Why are we born? What if when we die we just relive our lives over and over again and I discovered this so something is going to happen? What if everything around me is being projected to me and everything I know to be true is just a lie?) It's not very logical but these questions are there. I tried to make this as short as possible and it still ended up being very long but I just want all of these thoughts that are in my head to go away. I've quit weed and have been trying to distract myself more during the day, I've tried to have a better diet and start working out but these two have been harder for me to do. I thought I was the only one and I was going crazy until I found this page today after hours of research and it seems that the only real thing to heal this is time. Is there anyone on here who has recovered and I can get in contact with?
Thank you so much. I am going to a rough, rough time after my first trip 11 days ago. Non-stop EXTREME panic. Crippling, disabling. And it's so hard to find a doctor down here. I made an appointment today and the earliest they had was ten days from now. I wonder how the f**k am I going to make it ten days like this. I only smoke weed, and I read serious stuff on shrooms, and decided to try it out at 30-yrs-old. I had no way to know I was going to be the rare case that gets extreme anxiety afterwards. Bad luck. Never experimenting with my brain chemistry ever again. But your post was so long, and so empathetic, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for it. I don't know if things will work out for me, it's been so intense and constant for more than a week now, on the verge of going to the ER every day, but your post is so caring. Thank you, man.
The trip for me lasted 7pm-7am, I could not believe it, I've never felt worse.
When the morning came I still hadn't slept but I had come out of my bad trip and didn't feel that bad.
All that day my mouth just felt a little numb and my body still tingled but I was okay.
Then night fall hit, I went to get into bed with my boyfriend, laid down and shut my eyes when suddenly it felt like I was in a bad trip all over again. I made my boyfriend come with me to the toilet because I felt like I was going to vomit and pass out. My heart was racing a million miles an hour, I was sweating and have never been so hot, I literally felt like I was going to die.
Anyway to cut the story short, it's been 3 months and I am still not completely recovered.
After having these anxiety attacks 10-15 times a day for 2 months, I went to the doctors to see if the shrooms at done any permanent damage. They hadn't thank god! But I still did not get an answer as to how I can help these anxious attacks.
After finding out that the shrooms had done no permanent damage it was a huge relief and stress taken off my shoulders ! I don't have many attacks anymore but when I leave the house now I always seem to have one and whenever I talk about my bad experience.
If anyone has advice let me know?