Feeling terrible after shrooms

I am experiencing everything that all of you are. I took them about 5 weeks ago. I was fine for 2 weeks then I had a panic attack and ever since then I can't sleep. I have terrible insomnia. I have terrible trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. Even on meds I can only sleep for about 2-4 hours, then I wake up. When I wake up I feel like, "oh no not again..." I feel exhausted and sleep deprived. I've also developed anxiety and I don't feel like myself at all. I've had times where I feel like I'm disconnected from myself and my surroundings. I read the posts above and have also been to doctor. It says I will get better but it's just so frustrating going trough this daily. I would appreciate any opinions and feedback. I'm trying to stay as positive as I can.

This guy is a lifesaver. Literally

How are you now?

im not fully recovered from the problems that the drug left me with. I have depression now and anxiety and life really doesnt feel the same. it really sucks.. the past 4 months have been hard but im trying to stick with it.. it really pisses me off because literally the day before I took shrooms, my life was perfect and i loved it. now im depressed and I really wish life would just be normal again. it feels like my vision has changed (not seeing things) its changed like colors are more saturated and things are in a higher definition i honestly hate it. I really wish i never did the damn mushrooms or any drug in the first place.. how have you been doing? also my thought wanders alot

hey great post !!! ive been going through this hole phase myself ..realized it was an issue, did all my research started making changes and have seen a huge difference. great advise hopefully everyone takes this advice !!

Dude i never comment on anything on any thread but i have to say this is the best motivational help text i have ever read! Godsend! Helped me quite a bit! I copied the text and im going to paste it to my memo so i can read it on tough situtations. Thank you and even though im not religious i think this describes it best: god bless all the best in life to you my friend!

Are you still feeling this?

Nice .that made me feel much better .and it sounds like you know what you are talking about .much appreciated .peace

I have had the same feelings that all be you have had but for about 3 months now and I have noticed small improvements over time and reading all of this is reassuring and comforting knowing that It will go away eventually. I'm positive in another 3 months things will be significantly better. Anyone was has recovered after multiple months of this feeling how long did you feel like this?

Bro you are such a nice human, we need more people like you! What you shared with us is amazing and I am so thankful for it! My story is similar. A year ago I had insane anxiety attacks and depression. It took me roughly a month and a half to get back to normal completely! 4 days ago I took shrooms for the first time in my life and I have to admit that I had the most amazing trip one could have! Nothing bad about it, but ever since, day by day I got a relapse on my anxiety. It seems like that you don't necessarily need to have a bad trip to get anxiety problems after. I understand it this way - Shrooms are an amazingly powerful substance that takes your brain and makes you RE-THINK a lot of things in this world and reality! That by itself can be stressful as f*ck! Like you wake up one day and everything you knew about yourself and life went down the toilet and you are left to go dig after what you lost to put it back into place or just create a better version of it! To me shrooms just woke up this subconscious issues that I had buried deep down and one of them was anxiety. I somehow am starting to think that shrooms just showed me that I didn't really manage my problems but rather suspended them deep inside and kept lying to myself that doing this and that in life can wait and that it was all good. Well apparently not.

I am yet again having anxiety attacks, waking up 4am from a looping dream with an aching stomach and sweating, having tremors. So I get up, I get down do some stretching, sit down meditate for 20 min and voila I am back In bed and having the rest of my sleep. Basically I am again living through most of the symptoms that you mentioned.

Now you all amazing humans, as he said, the good news is that, anxiety is not stronger than you are and you have to believe it! I have been there I have won over it once! Without any medication besides a diet and herbs. And I will do it again! And not just suspend it but get over with it and get stronger than before! All these things feelings you are going through may seem like you are going trough hell right now, but trust me once you get over with it, you will look back and ask yourself how could ever one could get to think that this would never go away and you will feel stronger and more positive!

What really helped me when I had my episodes of panic attacks and anxiety a year ago was the following:

- Don't be afraid to express yourself - draw, paint, write, play music (if you don't do any of the following, stick to some other hobby that you used to love, or simply learn how to do at least one of these things! trust me going through the process of learning how to paint for example is a therapy session itself) go out talk with people, love! love yourself, talk with the people that LOVE you! They will only make you fell stronger!
- Don't by any means isolate yourself, be out there!
- Don't consume alcohol! Alcohol to me was the worst substance I could ingest while my anxiety periods. For the moment itself would make me feel happier but the next day! You don't wanna go through the next day, it's a pain... in general try to stay clean.
- Get plenty of vitamins, b2/b6, and D are the most important to take! They have a role in the production of mood related neurotransmitters.
- Consider different types of teas. You can go for the "ST. JOHN'S WORT" it's a herb that tends to stabilize the production of serotonin and dopamine which play great role in how we feel ( main mood neurotransmitters). You can also get it as pills, but please IF YOU ARE on some drugs consult with your therapist.
- Meditate! But, before you jump off and go get doing it, inform yourself and make sure that you know what you are doing, because practicing it wrong might just be as harmful or useless. As a start inform yourself about mindfulness and concentration. Then learn about various breathing techniques, they will make wonders when you get anxiety attacks or you get hyperventilating.
- Stop analyzing your body and the way you feel, it will only dig the problem deeper. Don't try to ignore it either. Simply observe, accept and let go.
- Last, but not least - exercise, be it yoga, stretching, push ups, running - anything physical will help you out. If you tend to hyperventilate, take it easy at first. Slowly increase the tempo/effort!

All that said, I already feel better for today... Thank you again for sharing your amazing information! I hope that some people would find mine helpful too!

All in all, live as there's nothing wrong with you, addressing the problem as a problem is a problem in the first place. We just have something to take care of to improve our quality of life.

Warm greetings to all of you! And happy recovering!

Are you guys back to normal and if so how long did it take for your recovery..... I also went through this and in recovery.... great post from you guys it has helped tremendously

Hello bobby, I am the one with the second post. The recovery process is just as individual as the reaction to the shroom trip. Like I said, for example I had an amazing trip. I loved it and i believe that it was one of the most important events in my life, however I still got the "negative" after effects. But besides that, now 3d week later I am almost completely back to "normal" with slight instances of mild anxiety and dizziness occasionally, but that will also go away with the time I believe. I have a lot of work load right now as well so i don't have too much time to work on myself unfortunately. The anxiety related after effects could be caused by many different factors all together. It all goes down to you brain biology though. Psylocin is structurally similar to serotonin and having the "trip" overexcites your serotonin receptors and that can cause them to not get excited by serotonin almost at all for some time after the trip. This is temporary. The feeling could be quite frightening for most people because you lose concept about moods. You feel so neutral that nothing excites you, everything seems flat and senseless. Some friends related to that as post trip "death of the ego" where you don't need anything, you are just being. That alone for example to me, together with my history of anxiety problems, awaken my anxiety issues again. But after realizing why it was happening I quickly gathered forces back and got back on tracks. The problem is that people too often try to fight that feeling and this causes their prolonged anxiety. One of the main reasons people get anxiety is that internally they fight to suppress / forget a intense psychological even that occur in the past. To me personally it helped me a lot to observe the feeling, learn from it and let go. Total surrender to thoughts like "this is bad, this is crazy this is not normal". Nothing to be afraid of! Nothing new under the sun! Observe, comprehend, let go. Think of it as a the beauty in the complexity of how our brains and consciousness works. Think of it as a challenge that when solve will strengthen your character. If one keeps feeding the feeling in a loop and continue overanalyzing it that leads to connecting even more neurons in the brain associated with that feeling, it will indeed be there to stay. It is really about personal management of your emotions. Anxiety is a human "issue" and some are more prone to getting it than others. It is none the less the same thing when it comes to dealing with it. However when dealing with it, one can help himself/herself tremendously using the right approach. Again as I mentioned, addressing the problem as a problem creates the problem in the first place. Bottom line, we are extremely psychologically sensitive species and feelings and psychological states are part of our complex and interesting existence. Nevertheless, these states of the mind are no something that is necessarily there to stay throughout our whole lives. We are in a greater control of them than most of us think we are. I hope I helped you, warm greetings and I wish you all the best!

I had the worst trip on my first shrooms and Im screwed up over a year after.

Before I took it I was already going through a phase of bad thoughs regarding my personality. Shortly speaking you could say I had low confidence at the time and it was getting to my self esteem as well - enhanced by marijuana.

So when I took the shrooms I was already uncomfertable and in a new scenery which I wasnt used to.

The trip was very introvert. I had my eyes closed and could/didnt want to open the, because I was already ashamed cause I felt I probably looked screwed up from what I felt.

Here's the sick part. I felt myself deconstructing bit by bit. My whole personality and my sense of self.

In the meantime I saw perfect patterns while my eyes were closed. Patterns I've never conciously seen before. 

With each pattern appearing and then going away I felt a part of me really going away and I felt more and more naked and detached.

Im talking like, I could even feel my relationship and love to my own damn mother being questioned.

By the end I had almost no sense of self left. No unconcious feeling of myself and now a year later I still have to remind myself of who I am. It doesnt really come naturally.

 

When I just relax and "be myself" theres pretty much nothing. Nothing matters.

Its been a f*****g struggle. My friends and family started noticing I was less happy and I could really feel all my relationships drifting away.

 

So yeah it was the worst experience in my life and this year has been my worst.

 

Remember I was already in bad thought habits so this was just a MAJOR enhancer

Hey mate! I am sorry to hear that you are still in a struggle. However consider the following things:

Don't blame it on the shrooms alone. Yes, shrooms have the tendency to unlock your underlying problems, but have you ever considered that what you get is a more of a personal problem than a drug related one? Your trip might have scared you, but open your mind and get comfortable with what the shrooms showed you. Remember that it is easy to confront our human understanding of reality. At the end of the day we are bunch of atoms arranged in a human body. We are the way of the universe expressing itself, we are the universe ... My point is that you don't have to feel traumatized by what the shrooms showed you, accept it as mind opening, no matter how wacked it seemed at the time. Nothing has real sense look at from it's pure form. It is the masks in our brains that create the emotions and the human understandings. If you see a tree, don't see wood - see a living being! The same way if you relate to your trip, don't see a horrifying experience, observe it in it's purest form and don't pass judgment.

If you suffer from GAD then it can go for years without a change if you don't do something to help yourself. It is really important to find the roots of the issue. Consider seeing a therapist if you can afford one. Once again I will repeat myself, don't address the problem as a problem. I know it's hard, I have been there! But try get on your feet, you are stronger than you think you are. Underestimating yourself is a bad thing.

Another thing - You are yourself! You have always been and you will always be. You just have a period in your life where things have taken a different course. Our nature doesn't like this, we like it when we have "everything under control" but sometimes the best thing is to let go that feeling and ask yourself, OK what is it that I can do now to ride through it. "You cannot stop the waves in the sea, but you can learn how to surf!" - that's a strong though, think about it.
Wanting to escape a trauma, to escape a state, to change things. The inability to do so, creates anxiety. Learn to surf! It is not going to happen magically, but it will happen if you allow yourself. It truly is you and only you that can help himself in this moment. It is hard at start, but the payoff is tremendous! We have already discussed what one could do to help oneself.

Best of luck and stay strong!

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Thanks man. I really appreciated your write-up. I was starting to freak out this morning and just reading this has calmed me down a lot.