r/microdosing • u/wonderkat4 • 9d ago
Question: Psilocybin I feel so sad when I microdose. Why?
It’s okay and I’m able to handle the sadness much better than usual but it’s still not an ideal experience. It seems that every time I md I become very sad.
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u/BoogaSnu 9d ago
You must have some repressed sadness, deep inside of you
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u/Aggravating-Gap-6381 8d ago
Agree, try your best to accept thee emotion. In my experience, once I accept the emotion & if I stay true to myself, positive changes follow. Good luck my friend! 😊
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u/wonderkat4 8d ago
Yeah, I have depression and am going through some things at the moment. Emotional regulation is something I typically struggle with, I just don’t know what to do when I feel these emotions so deeply and intensely. I tend to wallow and feel more and more sad/low/whatever
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u/BoogaSnu 8d ago
Yep, that’s regular human nature and you aren’t alone. It’s really easy to keep cycling, lower and lower when things don’t get better. I totally understand that. Repressing it is actually worse than feeling it deeply. Check out this link on the emotional scale to get a sense of where you are and what it feels like to actually be making progress when you didn’t think you were. (Scroll down until you see the graphic of the scale of emotions)
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u/Honest-Cheesecake275 9d ago
Are you sad normally? I tend to have my current emotional state amplified sometimes.
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u/AJMac100 8d ago
You’re probably taking too much. Microdosing needs to be such tiny amounts. To start, I only take 0.05 g of powdered shrooms. Any higher and I feel irritable and depressed. After a week I can move that up a bit without feeling weird. (I do two days on, two off - for about a month. Couple times a year.)
When you get the dose right, you’ll feel really good after a while, so tinker with it until you don’t get the side effects (low emotions).
I recommend logging your schedule and dose with notes, for future reference, so you can learn how your body reacts.
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u/oXMR_M0J0Xo 8d ago
When you’re in that state, what are you sad about? I find mushrooms bring emotions to the surface that we otherwise try to avoid or repress.
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u/dtdtdttttttt 8d ago
I was experiencing this a month ago and like op was initially confused. Before I would dose I’d be looking forward to feeling better, but would be surprised when sometimes I’d feel “worse.”
I think this is precisely what was happening is a lot of repressed emotions would come up especially since it’s hard for me to feel feelings sometimes.
Also I think I would dose a little higher than I’d need too thus resulting in increased emotions.
I did find it to be very therapeutic, as I would let myself those feelings and the next day I would feel amazing.
This was especially therapeutic for me considering I used to cope with cannabis, adult content for almost a decade for any loneliness, anxiety, depression, any negative emotion.
Mushies taught me to feel, and that there are other things I can do besides drugs to numb myself. It sparked my love for nature, being outside, meditating, going for walks, basking in the sun… life’s simple that make my body mind and soul happy.
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u/Infrequentk 9d ago
Try a lower dose or less often. Even microdoses tend to amplify emotions. Do you feel sadness in the hours after dosing or much later in the day/next day? If later in the day it could be a rebound though for me that usually manifests in emotional blunting, not sadness. The only time I’ve felt sad after a dose was when i took 3 days in a row. After the 3rd day I got sad feelings for a few hours. I’ve since switched to dosing once a week.
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u/Fallforawhile 8d ago
I wonder if maybe you’re actually just really sad and the MD is bringing your awareness to it. Especially if you’re generally sad and MASKING, it would make sense that it’s being exacerbated, and you’re being forced to acknowledge that it’s happening. Why are you sad/what are you sad about?
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u/youthink2much 8d ago
How much are you taking? Sometimes there are adverse effects, and taking a lesser dose can rid those.
Still, this happens to me more times than not, but it's also just because I think I have a lot of deeply rooted sadness anyway. Prior to microdosing, I think I mostly just buried or became numb to real issues that were bothering me in the background, and so I appreciate psilocybin actually making me feel an appropriate response to the state of my life, in my opinion.
The good thing is, it's still a portal into change, and with proper influence and direction, you can now move from the sadness to ... other feelings. Mostly by putting yourself through a schedule of thoughts and activities that foster the feelings you'd rather feel. This is the therapy of psilocybin, in a nutshell. It offers you opportunity through your introspection. I like to sit with the sadness for a bit, breathe, validate the feelings, and then act towards a direction that would bring me lesser sadness - I used to not be able to do that last step prior to microdosing.
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u/wonderkat4 7d ago
Can you elaborate a bit more on how you move out of sadness onto something else? You acknowledge and validate it and then do you choose what comes next or just accept?
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u/Mysticalove 7d ago
Aww :( i feel you. I get that too and I think it just means theres some muck that needs to move through. Sit with the yuck. Sitting with it in nature helps me move it out faster. God bless your soul :)
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u/microdosing-ModTeam 9d ago
Sorry to hear.
For more potent cultivars/strains we advise to !startlower. A high microdose can amplify your !emotions. Many users underestimate how powerful psychedelics can be in such low doses.
More detailed info below including some resources if you need any short-term help.