The worst anxiety I have ever experienced was from a bad trip that caused intense panic and days of anxiety and paranoia after. Can anybody anecdotally attest to psychedelics helping anxiety?
There are already completed studies that show positive impact from psilocybin on anxiety.
My experience as someone who has mild anxiety (and always feared having a "bad trip") was that, though I had some challenging and uncomfortable (but ultimately rewarding) thoughts during the experience, the "afterglow" was a couple weeks of enhanced mood and little-to-no anxiety.
The afterglow as you put it was quite amazing. I don’t suffer from anxiety myself but my mood and feeling for some time after was incredible. I strongly believe that there is something there worth studying.
These doses are more likely to be sub-"trip" doses. Ones that are enough to influence your mood, emotions, etc, but probably not enough for you to have a full blown trip.
