benzodiapides in stress situations (and magic mushrooms)

[playthepsychedelic]

anyone familiar with the effect of benzo's (in my case : clotiazepam) in very stressfull situations? Last week I had to go to a hockey training, but the training before ended horribly, I played awful and my team"mates" starting bullying me, yelling at me and calling me a loser, gossiping about me only 2 friends stood up for me then one of them got almost beaten up for that . So the next week I really trained on my hockey skills, on my social skills and my bully-ignoring-skills, but I was still afraid of getting beaten up by these guys, so I took 10mg of clotiazepam and magically, wonderfully, dreamlike this was the best training ever. As you can guess, I felt no stress at all. My two friends didn't show up (little bit cowardly, but hey, they had their reasons), but without my anxiety, everthing worked out. I could just play some games with the "soft" guys, and when the training started, I still sucked at the game(I guess it will take some time), but when they started commenting on me I just ignored them, and kept ignoring them, untill them came up to me, asking me my name and calling me martijn instead of "slunge" (in dutch,that's not even a word) and giving me positive comments and help me out, make some jokes and laugh with me instead of at me...clotiazepam really helped me out.

secondly, Anyone has any experience with the use of magic mushrooms aka shrooms aka psilocybe mushrooms as a "cure" for SA?? I took my first dose yesterday (about 8 liberty caps) and I could think incredibly deep, and oversee the roots of my problem,my frustrations and possible solutions... I'm planning on taking a normal dose of shrooms( probably about 30 liberty caps), but I hope it wont turn out wrong by increasing my social anxiety, as yesterday I got kinda depressed by my own deep thinking/filosofy...you often hear that shrooms are a life changing experience, well, I wanna give it a try...will report my experience asap.

 

[GloomySunday]

Anyone has any experience with the use of magic mushrooms?

I used to take great quantities of magic mushrooms when I was a drug user. I am now clean and free of them and their influence. A general dose was around fifty which was enough to induce a 'trip' similar to LSD but I often took more.

As far as being a 'cure' for Social Anxiety, I would say they were quite the opposite.

I used to take mine with friends and had quite intense psychedelic experiences. There was a lot of laughter, strange conversations and other worldly experiences. You do literally 'go out of yourself'. You enter another mindset completely and see the world very differently. In particular, it makes listening to music quite a powerful experience.

That's when you're on them. Unfortunately, their after affects have the completely opposite effect and therein lies their danger. The days following a trip made me feel quite fragile and paranoid. I felt cold inside and felt the need to blunt these awful feelings by smoking copious amounts of marijuana. Whilst I was sociable on the drug, I was anti-social when it wore off and felt isolated and detached from reality.

After a decade of using drugs like mushrooms and other drugs I was a mess. I would have panic attacks and nightmares so severe I felt like I had caused myself permanent emotional and physical damage.

Each to their own, but I would strongly advise staying away from drugs as intense as these when you are already in a fragile emotional state. They will only intensify the negativity you already feel, in exchange for a few hours of illicit pleasure that very quickly fades.

 

[Slothrop]

Benzos are great for those kinds of situations, when it means the difference between going through a stressful situation and not going at all. Long-term, your own social skills and ability to remain calm are more important, but short-term, they can make a huge difference. Good for you.

Regarding mushrooms, I would say simply that they are no cure. They can give you a remarkable experience well outside of your familiar life with anxiety, which can give you a lot to think about, but they do not in themselves have any lasting effect. Additionally, a day or more afterwards you can feel mentally and emotionally exhausted, which can trigger a longer depression if you're not prepared for it.