Bad trip
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Bad trip (or psychedelic crisis) is a disturbing experience sometimes associated with use of a psychedelic drug such as LSD, Salvinorin A, DXM, mescaline, psilocybin, cannabis, DMT and sometimes even other drugs including alcohol and MDMA. The manifestations can range from feelings of vague anxiety and alienation to profoundly disturbing states of unrelieved terror, ultimate entrapment, or cosmic annihilation. Psychedelic specialists in the therapeutic community do not necessarily consider unpleasant experiences as threatening or negative, focusing instead on their potential to be highly beneficial to the user when properly resolved. They can be exacerbated by the inexperience or irresponsibility of the user or the lack of proper preparation and environment for the trip, and are reflective of unresolved psychological tensions triggered during the course of the experience.
See also
- Altered state of consciousness
- Ego death
- Existential crisis
- Hard and soft drugs
- Lucid dreaming
- Out-of-body experience
- Overdose
- Posttraumatic growth
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Psychedelic experience
- Psychedelic therapy
- Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants
- Psychonautics
- Psychosis
- Recreational drug use
- Responsible drug use
- Sensory deprivation
- Spiritual crisis
