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The benefit of using LSD in a psycho-therapeutic environment is the opportunity to work through the anxiety that comes up during the trip. For a lot of people,
by csorrell 12y ago
The benefit of using LSD in a psycho-therapeutic environment is the opportunity to work through the anxiety that comes up during the trip.
For a lot of people, an emotional breakdown can act as the catalyst for a life changing emotional breakthrough.
edit to add: 'bad trip' is a subjective term.
- thbbht 12y agoYou're certainly right in the subjective use of "bad trip". I think the term has been applied to maybe too wide a spectrum of psychedelic experience, I've usually seen it manifest itself as one of these two: A. An unpleasant experience where the user is forced to confront uncomfortable realities about themselves and the "world". This is usually a feature of most trips, it could last a few minutes or hours. This can often be a net-positive experience as the user navigates their way out of it and realize the baselessness of some of their more troubling assumptions. B. An experience where the user entirely loses touch with "reality". Sometimes this resembles the symptoms of a very strong panic-attack. It includes feelings of imminent death or the feeling that the user has permanently altered their psychology forever or has gone irreparably insane. This can last for the entire duration of the trip and have permanent, lasting effects long after the drug has worn off. As someone mentioned further up the thread, "A" can sometimes spiral out of control into "B".
- colordrops 12y agoJust an anecdote... I've had several "A" style bad trips, and they all ended up being net-positive for me. I've had one "B" style bad trip in the late 90s, and still haven't gotten 100% over it.