sorry for posting another thread but should i not take acid if i have depression?

i was diagnosed with depression about a year and a half ago and have been talking well butrine everyday since i was diagnosed, i was reading on erowid that ppl with mental illnesses should not take LSD, your opinions?

 

u should proberbly not take acid if u suffer from depression plus u are only 15 years old but take half a hit if u still want to try it although half a hit is nothing to the real experience of at least 2 hits but u will get a small taste of what its like

 

i am pretty sure that most people are depressed in one way or another when they first trip. our society is prone to mental illness. LSD can actually help with mental illness if the individual is using it for this purpose and wants to change. LSD can help you find the beauty in life.

having said that i would still recommend that you wait until you are no longer taking that medication the doctor has you on. i would say you dont need that stuff at all but understand how there may be a need for it. if you stay on that medication for too long you will not get better cuz you are only covering up the problem. if you are using it to get through some real bad times ok, but i would definitely wonder about a doctor who wants you on this drug indefinitely or does not try to get you off of it as soon as possible!

there is a reason why you are depressed and the medication wont heal that root cause - this is something that you have to heal on your own.

 

Wellbutrin might interfere with a trip, too, since LSD is a Seratonin-like chemical and Wellbutrin blocks the reuptake of seratonin. Not for sure, though.

 

3xi, i think your right dude, maybe i should try, not taking it for a week and see how things work out, however i was reading on wikipedia that there are certain anti depressants that can make a person do very irrational things while on LSD(i.e. try to fly fall out a window etc.) but wellbutrin i found out is not in that group of antideppresants

 

If it's an MAOI or an SSRI, it might actually prevent you from tripping. MAOI's are worse than SSRI's. As far as I can gather, Wellbutrin will not have any adverse effect with LSD, so you're good on that part. The depression may be another story, I imagine you should have a good time.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_health3.shtml

 

In all honesty man, it sounds like you're trying to find an outlet to help you out of your depression. But dude, take it from someone who's been there, there's nothing better solve whatever problems you've got than by thinking, writing, talking, or somehow letting those emotions out. I was clinically depressed for a year, and then all of a sudden I got a girlfriend and she unknowingly helped pull me out of the grave I dug for myself. We have gone our seperate ways since, and I have accordingly shifted the energy i put into my girlfriend into my guitar. Now I'm in a band, expressing myself through my music, and I feel like the huge burden that was on my back is almost completely gone. Please listen to me man, what would really help a lot is for you to find something you really love and pour all of your energy into it, so you can have something tangible to look at and really know is your work. You'll be surprised how great you can feel without anything at all!

 

thats actually what ive done. i love playing music, i love writing, and i love art. and most of the time im pretty content with everything. the problem im having is that is it the drug making me happy or my passion for art, music, and writing

 

it is not the mixing of the drugs that i am worried about.

it is the fact that you feel you need wellbutrin that worries me. when you feel you are stable enough to deal with normal reality on your own, without the medication - that is when i would say you are ready to experiment with LSD.

i really do think that you would be better off to wait until you are in a better headspace. you are still young - you have lots of time left. you want to play it smart with psychedelics - they demand respect!

 

I cannot believe that people would suggest to someone that they dont know AT ALL, who admittedly has a mental illness that they take on a daily basis out of necessity, that they should take acid.

I'm a big proponent of using LSD to help fix these sorts of things, but seriously I think that that should be done with someone who's fairly experienced with both psychedelia and psychology. It definitely helped me in the long run, but actually made things much worse for about 5 months while I figured out how to make things better.

Like 3xi, I have an issue with the medication - I know what it's like when my brother misses a dose by a few hours, let alone not taking it for 2 weeks (a week won't let it get out of your system, trust me, you need at least 2-3 weeks) so that you can take a drug. Personally I think that's irresponsible. Especially at your age - not that I htink there's some magic age at which you should trip, but think about how bad that would seem if your parents found out that you were trippin and not taking the medication that they're paying a lot of money for.

I'd suggest waiting until you attend university before you attempt trippin, I just don't think it would be a very good idea at the present time.

Shit IS dangerous, sometimes there are rocks better left unturned. Remember some things are better left unsaid, but what can you possibly do about the things better left unthought?

 

Be careful!! Being on anti-deps and taking LSD can cause a huge release of serotonin in the brain and you could have a stroke.