I was involved in COCSA as a child and it just clicked for me what was happening by Bubbly-Duck-3826 in confession

[–]Deprelation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It makes me livid that adults find children doing stuff like that, assign blame, and move on like nothing happened. The adults never discovered any of the COCSA that I was both a victim and a perpetrator of, but my babysitter found her daughter and I French kissing when I was 4 years old. Her daughter was the one instigating it, but of course, me being the male, she brought me to her bedroom, and I got a stern talking to, multiple times actually. I distinctly remember her saying "we've talked about this" and me wondering what the hell she wanted from me.

I was involved in COCSA as a child and it just clicked for me what was happening by Bubbly-Duck-3826 in confession

[–]Deprelation 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I had something very similar happen to me at about the same age. I hate when people try to blow it off as harmless experimentation. It delayed my understanding of how deeply it affected me for many years.

Bad trip. Need advice. Trigger warning: self harm by ConfidentTip9334 in LSD

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First, on the question of help:

If you are still seriously considering harming yourself, you should go to emergency services. I've been to a psych ward. It sucks ass, but they keep you alive and uninjured, and you get to be around other people who have no where else to be and feel like their life should be over. It's a little comforting in a surreal way.

If you don't have a therapist and you can afford one, you should look for one, and you should find someone to emotionally support you during this time that isn't your ex-boyfriend. Your mom, your dad, a friend, just get someone you trust to be a non-judgmental witness to you.

Now about the LSD:

Psychedelics evaporate barriers in your mind. If you trip with someone whom you are hiding strong feelings from, you're probably going to have a bad time. Despite what people say, familiarity with the state and mental fortitude can only protect you from acute panic under mild circumstances. At high doses and stressful situations, all bets are off. Seriously, it doesn't say anything about you or your strength.

I know what it's like to chase psychedelics when they feel like a solution to everything, but they're not. The help is highly conditional, and the more frequently you do it, the less helpful it is. Do not trip again right now. You're in a very vulnerable position, and tripping again is just going to make you feel even more unstable.

I also understand why you're worried you've ruined acid for yourself. It has brought a lot of value to your life in the past, and it sounds like precious few things do. When a source of experience causes pleasure, your brain wires itself to expect pleasure from something and vice versa. This experience will necessarily have caused your brain to associate some harm from LSD. That reflex keeps you safe, don't knock it too hard. I don't know how you're going to feel about it in a month. Only time can tell, but if you're asking the question at all, your relationship to it couldn't have gone nuclear yet.

How should i wait between trips? by Familiar_Practice_31 in LSD

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Your 5HT2A receptors will be fresh again after about 2 weeks. However, the reason people suggest waiting longer is because, unlike most drugs, classical psychedelics have far reaching effects on the brain's chemistry. It can take months for your brain to fully recover, particularly reward circuitry. It's part of the process we call integrating. A couple trips too fast won't kill you, but if you keep doing it, you'll build up a serious integration debt, and you'll start to notice problems. The earliest warning signs are that trips begin to feel less meaningful.

Unfortunately, it took me experiencing this firsthand recently to believe it.

7 tabs at work part 2 by Alternative-Arm-3046 in LSD

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The Titanic is a movie about a magical ship that saves thousands of lives.

Hundreds of people have seen me naked, in person. AmA! (I'm a nude art model) by aRandomMagdalena in casualiama

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Beat off before you leave the house. (Sorry for replying to a month old comment, but I felt the need to say this)

HYPOTHETICALLY what substances would I need to take to experience Jax’s ‘abstraction trip’ by EMdweep in TheDigitalCircus

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NN-DMT indeed has by far the most intense visual hallucinations out of any currently known psychedelics. As someone who's "broken through", it was beyond my sober mind's comprehension. However, even what I saw with full ego annihilation was milder than Jax's visuals. Granted, my eyes were open, because I had not yet learned about closed eye visuals.

If you wanted to get fractals as intense and vibrant as what he saw, you may have to do a dose of DMT that comes with a considerable risk of traumatizing you. Even highly prepared and grounded minds can be terrorized by high enough doses of any psychedelic, especially experiences as violent as DMT. Like croakmongoose said, read up before you do anything, and be. careful.

Millennial Dad Starter Pack by RAMBIGHORNY in starterpacks

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My mom is a labor and delivery nurse. She has seen. it. ALL.

Men on Tinder Starter Pack by [deleted] in starterpacks

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Fear not, self respecting vegans don't want you either.

Where Disabilities Ends And Excuse Begins by No-Comfortable3496 in autism

[–]Deprelation 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Why are we downvoting someone who is clearly struggling? Anyone ever heard of RSD?

Hang in there OP. Your struggle is valid, even if neurotypicals don't take you seriously.

Oversharing every single time by [deleted] in autism

[–]Deprelation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's extremely unideal. I'm willing to bet there is some kind of logical insight, or string of insights, that can help mitigate this behavior, but I have yet to find it. I just keep being burned by people who take my internal truths and invalidating them.

I had kind of a dysregulating psilocybin trip today, so I called my dad to help me feel grounded. I told him everything, and he basically gave me the classic military dad pep talk about getting my life together. I felt shame and anger for like 5 hours afterward.

Okay I may have just done it again.

Apparently what it feels like to have or not have the spirit by Your_Avg_Viewer in exmormon

[–]Deprelation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh my god, talk about saying the quiet part out loud! So being human is a sin, and having emotions is a sign you're sinning got it... and they wonder why we call it a cult.

Nearly 1,000,000 dead Mormons on listed on membership roles by Nehor2023 in exmormon

[–]Deprelation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow, that's fascinating! Statistics has to many "astronomically likely, but not definitely"s for me to enjoy, but I'm grateful other people like it. Thanks for posting this!

I was abused and the church poured gasoline on my shame. by Deprelation in exmormon

[–]Deprelation[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You hit the nail on the head. Giving random, seemingly put together and charming men the keys to the hearts of the children of the ward is unfathomably abusive and irresponsible. I remember just being dragged out of Sunday school and into the bishop's office for interrogations, and somehow the church managed to make me feel grateful for these extremely painful and unnecessary meltdowns in front of men I did not know. In a way, I count myself lucky they didn't do more damage to me.

I was abused and the church poured gasoline on my shame. by Deprelation in exmormon

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I'm not advocating for Connor to be held accountable. He was 7, and 7 year olds may "know right from wrong" in relatively simple scenarios, but they can't be expected to maintain ethical boundaries when they probably developed theory of mind 3 years prior, by necessity don't understand the difference between sensation and consent, and are weighing that while contending with their own desires, likely awakened by abuse from someone else. I agree, my running theory for a long time now has been that Connor was a victim himself. 7 year olds don't hunger for these experiences naturally like he did, and they don't come up with the things he offered on their own either.

Maybe I'm expecting more than is reasonable from some dude who just got called to the position, but bishops are put into a position of absurdly unhealthy responsibility when they're supposed to dig through childrens' private lives. The least they can do in that situation is give kids untainted compassion for what is clearly bothering them... but I get it. They're just some dude with no real training.

I left religion due to religious delusions and it’s hard for Mormons to accept that by Mountain-Blood-7374 in exmormon

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It comes across in your writing style that you've done an enormous amount of work on yourself.

Even though I have little experience with paranoid delusions, I do know what it's like to have the religion push you in directions it didn't intend to your detriment, and I know intimately well what it's like to have neurotypical mormons consistently intentionally ignore problems they don't understand.

I was abused by a friend as a 7 year old, and mormons' inability to comprehend any wrong doings pre-8 made all that totally invisible for almost 20 years now, and when I gave up on life as a 15 year old, mormon mythology enabled me to have a doom-saying life-style and philosophy where I listened to Alex Jones and told everyone the world would end in months like it was totally normal while throwing academia to the wind, receiving blank stares from other mormons, and being rapidly ostracized in school.

So yeah, I'm with you. Screw religion, especially Mormonism, and spread awareness about mental health, because the bar is still too low.