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Shrooms as an anti depressant.
    #26514065 - 03/03/20 07:11 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

So I've battled depression my entire life. Always self medicating with this drug or that drug. It became a miserable existence, although, I didn't know I was miserable.

Recently, I was put on probation. And after going to rehab, I grew a new perspective on my drug use and quit the main drug I was using which was ruining my life.

Thinking back when I ate mushrooms on a very regular basis. I remember that I was not depressed, quite the opposite. I was happy, with myself, with others, with the world. I accepted things as they were and did what I could in my life to make myself happy. I didn't use any other drugs during that time. Then, one day, I decided that I'd been eating these things long enough and it was time to move on with my life.

I quit eating shrooms abruptly, after 10 years of taking them every day. (I took 1/4 gram every morning in pill capsules). And very shortly after, my world crumbled around me. I started drinking more, my girlfriend whom I loved and still miss. I started getting irritated over trivial shit. Everything fell apart and I was once again miserable. I never made the connection then, but now...

Now I've seen a psychiatrist and have been put on prozac. After 10 days on this medication, I feel great. And thinking back, I feel almost exactly like I did every day when I was taking shrooms as a supplement. (1/4 gram a day)


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Re: Shrooms as an anti depressant. [Re: lil_demented]
    #26514248 - 03/03/20 09:16 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I don't like mocrodosing, I take shrooms for your big boosts and epiphanies, and take lions mane on the steady for your depression. This worked really well for a dark spot in my life, I knew the trip was coming but I chased the lions mane steadily. Don't under estamate medicinal edibles, moving forward, i am seeing major value in some of these premises Like reshi vs. Corona could be a thing soon. But shrooms most definately can turn things around for someone. I view it more as like hitting the gas or hiring a mover to "get some real work done sometimes" when it comes to using psilo for cleaning out some cobweds.


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Re: Shrooms as an anti depressant. [Re: lil_demented] * 1
    #26514662 - 03/03/20 01:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Mushrooms have been wonderful at helping me with depression. Not only the trip itself and reflecting on things in my life and working things out, but they give me a long lasting lingering anti-depressant effect. There is a lot going on during and the days/weeks after eating a dose of mushrooms.

I ate some mushrooms last week for the first time in a long time...and I've been going through the roughest and lowest point in my life over these past couple years...The mushrooms have helped me tremendously in so many ways...I feel so much lighter and clearer, don't feel like I'm carrying a physical load around (I feel emotions can manifest physically in the body), I don't have the typical patterns of thought that I usually have when depressed. I'm able to deal with anxiety better and don't have such a strong response to things that normally trigger my anxiety. I can reflect on certain things with out intense negative emotions being attached/involved with those thoughts..etc etc....They help release emotions and crap I've bottled up inside.

Mushrooms are terrific medicine and have heaps to offer anyone and everyone :heart: .





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Now I've seen a psychiatrist and have been put on prozac. After 10 days on this medication, I feel great. And thinking back, I feel almost exactly like I did every day when I was taking shrooms as a supplement. (1/4 gram a day)





So why did you choose to take prozac instead of mushrooms?

Why don't you start working with mushrooms again?



If it works, that's great...but I just don't see a SSRI providing benefits to one's life in the long run. I've always looked at things like serotonergic anti-depressants as a band-aid being put over a problem, they do absolutely nothing to heal and to help sort out one's issues and get down to the root of one's depression and the problem usually ends up festering and becoming worse over time. A SSRI doesn't do anything to fix or heal a person and if anything makes it more difficult since one is usually numb to emotions.

Mushrooms don't numb the mind/emotions like a SSRI and they leave room for introspection and connection to emotions, they allow for new insights and perspectives. Mushrooms actually change networks and connections in the brain..A SSRI will not offer any of that....Depression is FAR FAAAAR more complex than just "low serotonin levels", which is basically all a SSRI does is play a role in allowing more serotonin in the synapses.



I know SSRIs can and do help some people...but I honestly HATE SSRI/serotonergic anti-depressants and feel they don't actually offer much in the way of helping sort people out. They are just a band-aid, and barely one at that. And I've also always looked at SSRIs as being a very "crude" method/approach for helping with depression...since, again, depression is way more complex than one just having low-serotonin. There is far more to it than that.




Here is a recent article on the topic of mushrooms and their anti-depressant properties, sorta relevant to the topic of this thread>>>

Emotional Adjustment: The Modulatory Influence of Psilocybin on the Amygdala

"...selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) – target communication via one or more brain neurotransmitters; the chemical messengers in the brain that, among other functions, regulate mood......

.....Psychedelics appear to exert their antidepressant on a more macro level when compared with conventional ADs, promoting lasting changes in brain networks"







-OM

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Re: Shrooms as an anti depressant. [Re: openmind]
    #26514685 - 03/03/20 02:09 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I'm thinking about going the mushroom route again. I just have a lot of other things going on that make it not such a good idea to do so right now. I just wanted to hear some other's thoughts on the matter.


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