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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Stromrider]
    #24625054 - 09/13/17 12:59 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

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I confess I use mycology to save me from myself. I've struggled in my past with drug abuse and depression. I don't deal well with idle time. Mycology fills this void.

I've got plenty to do when its day time and not raining. I have a house, land, tractors, motorcycles and all kinds of equipment to use and maintain but when it's all done and it's dark and raining I tend to lose myself into the void. My mycology just won't allow this. There's always something I can do. After all you can only paint your bathroom so many times.

I credit this cut wood and carry water philosophy to me being clean from any ball and chain substance for nearly 3 years :smile:

Thank you psilo for this thread. You know I love you and I miss your face :hug:




Congrats Bro! My wife and I will be 4 years clean on 11/19. I feel the same way about myco work. It keeps me almost to busy lol. Stay up and again...
CONGRATS! TO EVERYONE ON HERE THATS COME OUT THE OTHER END.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Buddha19er]
    #24625095 - 09/13/17 01:21 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

I'm glad you made it through as well. Sounds like you had it worse than me. My stint was short.

I ended up homeless as a teenager. It started out as me taking whatever drugs were around and then one day I discovered H. It was cheap and fast. Ended up snorting the shit for like two months straight. I thought I was going to die when I stopped. There is no agony worse than that withdrawal. I never wanted to feel anything like that ever again once it was over. So 17 years clean now. I remember sitting in the McDonalds bathroom with a straw up my nose after scoring in the commons.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TheBlackCat]
    #24625133 - 09/13/17 01:42 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Damn BC, wouldn't have expected that from you tbh!

Good thing you got out while you still could!

It's a drug I've never touched or even seen IRL (aside from seeing someone shooting up in a stall once, and his friend looking at the syringe like he wanted to fuck it) though I feel drawn to it in a certain way. The concept of H kind of mesmerizes me. I know it would probably kill me though. I am keen on trying to grow an opium patch one day. Just has to be at a point in life where I feel like it wouldn't have the risk it would have now. Maybe that'll never happen, maybe it will. Only time can tell. In the meantime, I'll stick with my sweet green heroin. The garden o' weed'n and her luscious oil...


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: LizardWizard]
    #24625163 - 09/13/17 02:06 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Opium is way too good. Had it only once. A fleeting moment of pure bluss and then reality. I still have the seeds from last year. I got them on EBAY. I got some Danish flags and some other variety. I went away for a few days and came home and everything even all my vegetables had cobweb mold. Or what I now know is cobweb from doing mycology. But yeah I was like fuck it and bought a few tomato and melon plants and called it a day. Maybe for the better. i wouldn't have gotten much. Just maybe enough for a few times with a friend.


Also there is a lot of things you wouldn't expect from me. I just don't talk about myself a lot. I'm in my mid thirties. I have some good friends I've had for years and I've settled down a lot. Well mostly settled down. I still have one crowd I get together with every once in awhile.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TheBlackCat]
    #24625173 - 09/13/17 02:12 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

10 sq ft, if I remember correctly, is approximately enough for 2-4 enjoyable days. So I'd probably be planting about once or twice that. I think it was Asante that started a very good informative thread about it.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: LizardWizard]
    #24625185 - 09/13/17 02:29 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

I just found the other seeds. Afghan blues is what's printed on the bag. i want to grow the Danish Flags so bad. They are so pretty.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Stromrider]
    #24625213 - 09/13/17 03:08 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

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Stromrider said:
I confess I use mycology to save me from myself. I've struggled in my past with drug abuse and depression. I don't deal well with idle time. Mycology fills this void.

I've got plenty to do when its day time and not raining. I have a house, land, tractors, motorcycles and all kinds of equipment to use and maintain but when it's all done and it's dark and raining I tend to lose myself into the void. My mycology just won't allow this. There's always something I can do. After all you can only paint your bathroom so many times.

I credit this cut wood and carry water philosophy to me being clean from any ball and chain substance for nearly 3 years :smile:

Thank you psilo for this thread. You know I love you and I miss your face :hug:




Miss and love you too Bro, thank you for everything! - I promise we'll share a campfire and Morning birdsong again!
Peace Brother from our Earth Mother!


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: PsiloPsychIn]
    #24625401 - 09/13/17 06:48 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

I definitely understand friends. I have a litany of mental illnesses and Mycology- in one for or another- has gotten me through some very dark times. The more I work and plan out Mycology, the happier and generally more productive and energetic I am. An 1/8 of cubes made me quick a 2-3 gram a day cocaine habit cold turkey, as well as directly gave me the will to live when I was ready to die, and doing the work keeps my mind sharp and focused, helping me keep my harmful thoughts at a distance. When my ex left me after weeks of being mentally and physically abusive, I was ready to give up again as the life I had envisioned for myself for the prior 2 years dissolved in an ugly way, I had tried my hand at cloning an oyster I got from my local Asian mart months and months prior and had a jar that got to 90% and was neglected for a minimum of 6 months. After she moved out and I was moping in my room, knowing she just might be crazy enough to snitch on my cube grows, I reluctantly and mournfully started trashing all of my babies I had working when I came across the cloned oyster jar. It had, after what had to be about 8 or 9 months of 0 growth, gotten to 100%. I decided to just pop the lid off and see what happened. Seeing those gorgeous and aggressive pins cluster outward yearning for life made me realize that this jar was an exact metaphor for my life- in that supremely serendipitous moment, I had the epiphany that the most joy I could wrangle out of the day to day was Cultivation- so I decided to cultivate my own happiness for once in my life and get really serious about Mycology- quiting actives altogether for cultivating them did more for my mental well being than taking them did (at that point - mind you that's after over 200 doses)- and I began to construct the ladder with which to climb out of my despair on. I still get suicidal thoughts (almost flippantly), and have rough days, and sometimes lack all motivation to do anything in the world- but I know once I get back on track with my mycowork these obstacles no longer seem insurmountable.

And so like that Oyster clone, I had gone through a period of stasis trying to find out what would make me whole- and once I overcame the contaminant in my life, and was reborn with a new purpose, a new outlook, and a new vigor for what the future will bring.




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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TravelAgency]
    #24625404 - 09/13/17 06:54 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

I celebrated 14 years clean off meth last August. Mycology is definitely a good therapy from hard drugs.

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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TravelAgency]
    #24625413 - 09/13/17 07:03 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

I'm over 5 years clean from addictive drugs too. I never liked downers of any kind. I started with blow at about 15. Ended up in some serious fucking situations in Texas. To the point where a cousin of mine's husband warned her that his buddies were looking to kill me. That's right around when I left Texas lol. The only high I do now is trip. Tripping never had the Arian Brotherhood looking for me lol. Just happy people wanting to trip too.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #24625417 - 09/13/17 07:06 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

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I celebrated 14 years clean off meth last August. Mycology is definitely a good therapy from hard drugs.



Congrats! That's some serious shit there. In Texas, you could drive down certain streets and smell them cooking it. We had to install a chain link fence around our AC unit outside with a pad lock. Meth heads were going around stealing them for scrap.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #24625435 - 09/13/17 07:24 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Fuck I wish I had mycology when I was battling my dilaudid addiction...luckily I couldn't find heroin in that small town or I would have been doin H instead.. Heroin woukd have been cheaper for sure

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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: dhype773]
    #24625442 - 09/13/17 07:28 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Congrats guys! Addiction is a hard animal to beat. Rehab, good therapists, and proper medication got me off my daily binge drinking routine that I had been using to self medicate my insomnia for like 6 years- Mycology has helped me to not go back. I still drink, but rarely have the desire to get drunk at all anymore- I can count the number of times I've been impaired over the last 6 years- and all of those were in safe spaces, and used to celebrate rather than cope or feed the beast. Glad Mycology has had the same effect on others :smile:

For any dealing with addiction and pervasive negative thoughts I'd like to recommend 2 books to use in conjunction with each other: "Agnostics Anonymous" - forget the author at the moment, actually helped me more with my depression than with my addiction by applying their coping skills to my mental health, and "Start Where You Are" - by Pema Chodron. When I first read it it didn't do a whole lot for me- but after I first read the other book I applied what I had learned from her book to the coping skills resulting in a mental suit of armor that can help me to navigate my mind.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #24625458 - 09/13/17 07:38 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

Mycology keeps those demons away for me....I have a very addictive personality and it mycology keeps my mind busy, I love my cannabis though...not going tp quit blazing anytime soon

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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Leftfield420]
    #24625461 - 09/13/17 07:40 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

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Mycology keeps those demons away for me....I have a very addictive personality and it mycology keeps my mind busy, I love my cannabis though...not going tp quit blazing anytime soon




I quit smoking because my job. For the next 30 years I can only smoke on the first day of vacation.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TravelAgency]
    #24625464 - 09/13/17 07:41 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

The book that has helped me the most in life, is The Mystical Kaballah by Dion Fortune (Violet Firth). It helps me to navigate life in general, to put everything in perspective, to see clearer the possible outcomes of my and others' actions, and much more. It's a sort of template applicable to everything in life.


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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: LizardWizard] * 1
    #24625474 - 09/13/17 07:46 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

I'm addicted to marijuana

And loving every second of it

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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Germs] * 1
    #24625662 - 09/13/17 09:25 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

the only committed relationship I've ever been in is with my bong lol!! Females come and go...but my bong never leaves

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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Leftfield420]
    #24625781 - 09/13/17 10:13 AM (6 years, 5 months ago)

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Germs said:
I'm addicted to marijuana

And loving every second of it



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Leftfield420 said:
the only committed relationship I've ever been in is with my bong lol!! Females come and go...but my bong never leaves




Man stoners think alike...I need to keep a bong at work.

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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: waxbrain]
    #24626541 - 09/13/17 02:47 PM (6 years, 5 months ago)

One of the worst things about this hobby is spending so much time on petris only to put them to the side after a single transfer. I confess I don't have it in me to throw these away


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