Feeling terrible after shrooms

Hey man I'm happy to hear you have recovered. Would it be ok if I reached out to you personally? I have been doing most of the things you mentioned and I have noticed improvements but I would like to share my experience with you as there a slight detail different from the others

Its been a year now do you still feel the side effects cause i did then recently n feel worse

I are you better biw? You feel normal again or its still bad

Do you feel better now

Thank you SO much!

You just made me feel so much better

Im printing this off. Absolute life saver!

Hi there I to had a bad trip about 2 years ago I toke magic mushrooms 3 days in a row bad idea. And then started feeling the same way lot of people are saying they felt and I was in a low low place for awhile so I started checking up will I always be like this and I wasent getting any right answers apart from the (pts) and once I seen that I relised it's not the mushrooms the mushrooms was a trigger and but who's to say this wasn't gonna happen with out the trip like it's been two years I was always a weed smoker and after the trip I had to give it up for 3mounts I wasn't able take a drag with out feeling like I was coming up on the mushrooms but it was all in my head and now I'm back to myself well nearly I do still get panic attacks but nit nearly as much as I use to and the foggy head is gone well I think it is biscly what I want to say that's helped me is your in control of your mind not the other way around and tell yourself it will get better and mean it and tbh I kinda toke a death in my family to relise what am I doing be scared that will do nothing to help me and why give up its not your time and this only something that has helped me alot I bet your scared of dieing that's your mean worry apart from feeling normal but right now when u get a chance lye down your bed close your eyes and say and mean when this words say god take me now if it's my time I accept death and then ull open your eyes and relise it's not your time now so stop thinking it is i hope this helped in some way because I know the feeling of needing help but I'm a two years after taking them and I feel like I'm getting better and I will keep thinking I am and it's okay to have an odd bad day or week but just don't give up and this is one other thing that I liked about something I read the resson u find it so hard and nit able is because your brain is stonger and smarter now keep it busy try doing something u wasent able before and Ull know what I mean just hang in ther find someone to talk to I have a gf now and with a few health problems I thought I never would but I do and since the mushrooms things are coming true like I never thought they would as in gf jobs and if I can talk to a girl and get a job after the mushrooms then is it like all that bad and am I not normal or am i a new person that just needs to figure out who yes I am and you are too be strong and eat healthy food and time will make everything better just please keep going it does get better

I love your post I toke mushrooms about 2 years ago and like that though I was going crazy but read a few things that told me I had( pdst) and knowing that help me and then finding out that mushrooms make u smarter that you just have t get use to it ands its true I do have my bad days but a few thing u just said has made them easer like I only knew niw that I can't go mad I kinda though I still coukd and that was delaying making me batter but don't get me wrong I am70% better then I was because I stuck around and never give up thinking postive and im glad u made it as simple as u i can but I'm not the best at spelling but I'm glad this i around to help others so people look it's been 2 years and im geting better so stay stonge and never give up ur in control of your mind not the other way around

I've had insanely bad Shroom trips in the past one being 6g the other 4.5g of potent Psilocybe Cubensis back when i was only 16-17 years old let me tell you they were the most terrifying trips of my life, i saw deep inside myself that was the scariest part of all. I learned of my worst fears (subconscious fears) i didn't even know i had. I saw my objective in life with absolute clarity for the first time. For me they shock me into the utmost clarity you could ever imagine life flashing before your eyes type sh*t but, i have to admit after my 4.5g trip it felt like a waste of time the trip was so terrifying and, manic i didn't think i would ever take mushrooms again it was too manic to makes sense of i would compare it to what i would expect from Ayawasca although, i don't have any experience with it so i can't say for sure. The trick is to analyze the trip for months and, learn from it not hide from it like your doing i hid from it after (4.5g) and, it made me depressed it felt like life had no meaning similar to what your describing it wasn't until i analyzed my trip that things got better, believe it not i have had a more positive influence from my bad trips than the good ones they were so horrible that they really made me realize just how bad things could really be and, got a far grater appreciation for what i have. My depression i fought for years faded and, i actually quit Cocaine cold turkey after being badly addicted i couldn't stop because the coke addiction was keeping me from seeing clearly but, with help from the mushroom i could. Remember analyze your f*****g trip this isn't a recreational drug in my opinion and, meany others it's a vary powerful mind altering substance/medicine don't f**k with it unless you are, educated that's where bad experiences come from, you see Psychedelics don't work on stupid people -Terence Mckenna

Btw i still use mushrooms for Depression and, Anxiety to this day just with a much smaller amounts usually .5g will have me feeling anxiety/depression free for days plus a nice sense of wonder that i haven't had in years as-well as optimism. Although, i still have the odd crazy 5g trip once every few years for the sake of deep realizations.

you are amazing for this post, thanks for spreading the advice and the love. :)

Totally agree. That post has put me on road to recovery. I just worrying like I brain damaged my self and that causes anxiety and in my case high blood pressure. I been in hospital twice and packed my bag to go home and called a cab and nearly booked a flight. Was feeling fxd up!! But yea it's all in the mind. Soon as I talk to people I was in hospital they freak. There for I freak and lit ended up bk in hospital. I think that maybe this is gods way of the shroom. Yes I done and had no bad trips. But a bad trip has made me realise who I am and chasing happiness is not the way when really I had it all along. The price of normal is priceless. As I gone thru all this I don't want to eat meat I don't want to sniff coke don't want to smoke weed, x an defo not shrooms!
I've had my fun now time to move on. And I feel I can become a better person as I recover in all aspects. Love is key. Love gets me through it. I'm alone in thialand but seeing pictures and talking with loved ones helps. Plus the love of good people and animals I find. Puts you at piece. I was serious freaking out ! Thought I developed a heart condition !
Jus it is in the mind. I think now is the time to develop positive thoughts only because negative affect me badly! And the do before all this I jus never realise until now.
I'm a 8 days in been hospital 3 days on 2 occasions. My only advice is, if you freak out to the point you heart and blood pressure booms! Mine hit 200 ! Go get medical help! Don't wait it to pass. And don't go crazy after shrooms doing mad hardcore exercise like I did in the head that jus bought it back on and I what dehydrated too. That nearly killed me not so much the shrooms. So jus take it easy on ur road to recovery and as the great post above. Do it all but do take it easy and drink lots of water. If you really feel funny go hospital and get on the drips I had 4 packs given to me. And DO NOT SMOKE WEED OR BOOZE. Just makes it way worse ! Much love folks you will get there stay strong and positive.

Hey, i took Ac40dmt and had a pretty terrifying trip, I lost all sense of who I was, as well as all sense of reality. I had slight anxiety and couldn't sleep approximately 2 weeks after the trip, which went away eventually. However recently (four days ago) when I was on the subway, for about an hour I started tripping again (Minor trip, just seeing letters on most surfaces and other patterns). Ever since then I keep thinking I'm gonna start hallucinating again, I can't sleep as easy and I get anxiety attacks out of the blue, I keep seeing letters everywhere however I'm almost positive that they are placebo, as it doesn't feel like a trip. However seeing all these messages is really giving me hope, and I think I'm gonna seek therapy to make sure the damage is as minimal as possible. One thing that made me feel a lot better was telling my friends, if my friends know the way i'm feeling, it makes my entire situation feel a lot more grounded and helps remove a lot of the disconnect I keep feeling.

Great article! I had taken a small small (2 small pinches) dose of shrooms after a line of mdma and a few hits on a joint. Feeling very strange for past 3 weeks since doing so! Have days where I feel great all day apart from a very mild 30/60 min spell of feeling weird. Taking 5 htp and another vitamin pill. Trying to stay as positive as possible with the lack of motivation or excitement for things. I will never touch drugs again just scared me off anything! I was only an occasional user every other month just so happened this was a month with lots of events on! Any advice to stay out the funk and a possible time frame would be awesome! Not going to be a person who’s like never do drugs they are bad etc etc as that’s not the case I just maybe over indulged and have depleted my serotonin levels and am experiencing some mild depression/anxiety. Cheers for any reply and any positive stories!

Hello,
To anyone experiencing these terrible feelings, please note that they are only temporary. I experienced such a trip at the end of my senior year of high school, during an extremely stressful period in my life. I too, thought that my life had ended. I sought help and with support from my family, medication, and renewed faith in the religion that I thought I abandoned very long ago, I began to see the light, and find joy in the small things again. Johnny Cash once wrote in a song titled "Man in Black", "I wear the black for the sick and lonely old... for the reckless ones who bad trip left them cold" (us!).
I really truly want to help you all because i know the torment that these sorts of events can leave you in.
The routine that helped me recover was:
1. Do not really on other drugs for comfort (Even marijuana!): If you were like me, you loved smoking weed at basically every opportunity. I'm sorry to say that this has to become a habit of the past. Drugs will temporarily make you feel better but once the effect fades you will realize that nothing has changed, and you will only try to seek more drugs for relief. This can lead to a cycle that is destructive and very hard to break. Being high is not good because it disrupts your focus at school and work.
2. Visit medical professionals: These people get payed handsome amounts of money to research your symptoms and prescribe a routine solution that they believe best handles the situation. I visited both a psychiatrist and a psychologist. If you believe that your connection is not strong with a therapist, seek out a new one, finding someone you click with is very important!
3. Exercise: I was an athlete all my life. The thing that athletics taught me was that if you wanted results, there is no other way to achieve them than hard work. After a trip such as this it can have both mental and physical effects. By exercising, your body releases hormones that make you feel temporarily happier, as well as long term effects like a sexier body, which helps with confidence in every situation.
4. If your like me, there was a fundamental reason for the bad trip. It is something traumatic that you try with every fiber of your being to avoid confronting, but unfortunately keeping secrets like these inside us only make matters very, very worse. I advise disclosing these events (mine was sexual assault about 3 months before the trip) to a medical professional, most likely a psychologist, who is legally not allowed disclose this information without your permission.
5. Try to go out as much as possible: Its going to suck, theres no other way to put it, but there is no way to get better at social interaction that to get out there and meet people who you genuinely like. Its ok to be vulnerable! Society tells us its bad to be vulnerable (especially for guys) but this is simply not true, as everyone is vulnerable at periods during this life. Being vulnerable is ok and actually necessary to discover more deeply what makes you who you are.

I truly hope you take the time to read what I have written here as I have basically narrated my trip and what I did to overcome it. Also, once you guys figure everything out, definitely try to pass information about your recovery on to others as it will only help the recovery process.

Peace