Is vulnerability to psychological effects of drugs largely determined by confidence?

For example is an insecure person more likely to have a bad trip than a confident person? Could a very confident person manage to control the hallucination? This is a bizarre hypothesis I am working on.

Confidence and Insecurity are manmade human concepts/philosophies. One becomes confident/insecure. But often times I feel people use them to brush over a type of person without fully understanding exactly what these two things mean.

Confidence is not self esteem, is not stability, is not sanity. Confidence is superficial, it is bravado. There are confident people who have low self worth, low understanding, low intelligence, etc.

There are insecure people who have high self worth, high understanding, high intelligence. They are just too consumed with what is not perfect, and in fact, they will be more compulsive and will control their high. They might not trust letting their guard down under the influence if they can't even let it down sober.

A confident person will be more impulsive and down for whatever because they are less concerned with what people think sober, even if they have self esteem issues or low faculties for learning; so they will enjoy their high more.

Confidence just means the mere ability to be oneself without considering what others think, it is not this heroic character trait.

I can see where you're coming from. But do you not think that true, inner confidence, is self-esteem, security? And might that affect such events, and how you experience them?

Hey there Toosh, it's been a while!

Thanks for clarifying, I thought it was a long shot

Well, it's established that I have an anxiety/depression combination, and lifelong Dyrpaxia as learning disability. What I didn't realise was that Dyspraxia made me more prone to phobias, obsessions, compulsions, addictive behaviour, emotional outbursts, sleep problems etc. anyway-nor that there is some overlap between that and Asperger's. Given that I am always trying to talk logically on here but it comes out in a strange form-and my friends often say "I don't fully get what you mean", as well as people saying that the way I think and behave is generally odd-I am wondering if I might be on the autistic spectrum. Unless this is a symptom of my anxious/depressive state in the first place.

When I was with CAMHS, the child psychiatrist wished to test me for a personality disorder, but my mum didn't like me being labeled with it. Now I am beginning to wonder whether it may help.

I'm currently doing CBT with the local IAPT branch, and the advocacy team also have a CBT program available. I'm not sure who to go to for this, my doctors always just say something dismissive like 'try not to think too much' 'don't worry' etc.