Using LSD to overcome social anxiety/gain confidence/kill insecurity?

i'd highly recomend trying lsd first. seems like the best starting point for psychedelics to me. mushrooms seem to have alot more potential and you need alot more experience navigating psychedelic headspace in order to tap into their full potential. maybe i'm biased since i took lsd first, but i'd say that i wouldn't have wanted it any other way. salvia is just powerful. too powerful. it really ought to be looked upon with caution!

 

we cant expect lsd to be the cure of everything.

get a bench press, work out. look good, feel good, get heaps of chicks.

 

wow! You look great!

 

I believe psychedelics can do wonders for social anxiety, though it could do the exact opposite and make it much worse. I used to have severe social anxiety, after a one week mushroom binge, my social anxiety was gone, and i led most conversations. Though on the flipside i got waves of paranoia for weeks.
But hell, shits gotta stay balanced lol.

 

Pure mdma is the answer. You don't give a fuck.

 

I don't think the solution is to "not give a fuck", he can go shoot dope for that.

MDMA however, is another great chemical for exactly the kind of problem like social anxiety. Take 100mg on an empty stomach and sit down with your best friend and talk.

 

Well, I'm leaning more towards shrooms for the first time simply because they're easy to get. LSD seems to be impossible to acquire (whereas shrooms all you have to do is get some spores online)

About MDMA, isn't it just a temporary fix? Or has anyone on here had life changing permanent experiences from it?

Thanks for all the wisdom guys.

 

well i mean i guess you should go for whichever you can get. if you have a shroom connect, go for shrooms. if you have an acid connect, go for acid. if you have both, i'd recomend acid.

but if you have no connects at all and really want to grow your own shrooms that works too! just be careful not to go too crazy. hopefully you have self control. because you will have a LOT of shrooms if you grow some.

 

I had a life changing permanent experience on mdma, it sounds like EXACTLY the drug you're looking for.

 

yeah MDMA has been used in clinical settings to virtually cure PTSD and Depression. You can't really walk away from an mdma experience without having some food for thought.

 

My depression was cured through a series of Yage' sessions. COMPLETELY CURED.

 

Yage?

 

Why is that not the solution? MDMA made me realize that thats the only reason why i'm such a bitch is because i give a fuck how others are percieving me, and i think about it so much that i can't think straight. When i was on molly, i diddn't give a fuck what anybody thought of me, so i could think exactly the way that i wanted to think all along by not thinking about how others are thinking, but just simply thinking of who i want to be.

 

Yage' is the B. Cappi vine, the main ingredient in
ayahuasca-the sacred south american tea containing an MAOI and DMT with various other mildly psychoactive plants(sometimes)

 

because you can still care what people think and not be a bitch you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. it's like solving your fear of swimming by moving to the desert. also you're saying it only works while youre actually on molly, and not when you're sober? then that's not learning anything at all, that's just getting intoxicated on MDMA and feeling its neurotic-fear dissolving effects.

That's like saying "Alcohol cured my inability to fight! Now I just get drunk, and can start a fight anytime! No longer am I ruled by my thoughts of what people think of me, while on alcohol!"

 

Mdma teaches me the mindset that i should always be in, so that i can be better at it when i'm sober.

 

Thats the effect you'd get from a psychedelic. You see how to overcome it than you must work towards it. nothins free people. You cant just pop a tab and your life is suddenly perfect.

 

No but it can seem like it and that's what really matters, how you feel about yourself.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha

 

Sorry to bump the topic, but this was a really interesting topic to read which forced me to join and add my two cents.

I feel that my anxiety comes and goes, sort've like a bipolar anxiety which largely depends on the confidence I have at the time. Indeed, I do I get performance anxiety a lot though (espcically with driving or someone watching over me over a task I am not confident at). But oddly enough, I can do public speeches (as long I know what to say beforehand) and have been known to play piano in public. As an INFP (MBTI personality), I envision future events; if I'm in a good mood, I get very excited about the forthcoming event, but if I'm in a low mood (which can be for an extended period), I get anxious about what is to happen and the quality of my performance.

It does all resort back to worrying about what others think of me.

With social anxiety, I'm mostly able to approach strangers fine when out in public, but it seems I get more anxiety with the people I'm closer with, or people that have high expectations of me that I always get anxious and feel have let down. Some days, I have very low confidence and my anxiety strengthens that I can't talk to anyone. The longer I disassociate myself, the harder it is to return to being confidently social. So I do know what it is like to be confident in social settings, but I want that mindset to be consistent.

I've done marijuana a large number of times, I love the obvious high effects and the greater appreciation for things. I have also found it the past to be self therapeutic and I have made great revelations about myself, but my anxiety can increase substantially more when on it, especially when smoking with others. I hate it. I want these feelings to go away, and enjoy the high without worrying about others think of me. I've had my first, and only panic attack on marijuana.

As for alcohol, it really makes me more confident but I hate the inability to think clearly and my hangovers usually involve being depressed and regretting whatever I've done the night before, or sad that my idealistic perception of the night didn't occur.

MDMA was as its recreation name says - it was ecstasy. I was happy, I didn't care what others thought; it was like alcohol but I was still able to think clearly, if not more clearly when sober.

But then again, I feel the less I think about social anxiety and depression, the more I become confident. So maybe me thinking I have it, is making small effects worsen? If that makes sense? A placebo effect?

And I do want to try LSD, not have any expectations of what is to occur and perhaps maybe it will do what marijuana has done and made me realise things about myself, but the state will be more clear and more permanent? What do you guys think? If my anxiety is only minor compared to many others, should I try LSD and welcome its effects, whether or not it will change me for the better? I'm only 20 years old, and I think I'll wait until I'm 21 and in the new decade of 2010.

 

the more drugs u do the more anxious u will actually end up getting... killing ur nerons and thus effecting ur serotonin. i myself take anti-depressants thanks to xtc.