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Sid Shroom
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Re: Tell me about your experiences with using psilocybin to treat mental health issues [Re: TerdleMountain]
#28526646 - 11/02/23 02:00 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Thanks TerdleMountain
Yes I guess that everyone is different, I am certainly realising this more and more myself as I get older. I agree too that mindfulness and openness are key to battling things like depression and anxiety. It takes hard work, but it really does achieve results (in my personal experience anyway)
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Sid Shroom
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Re: Tell me about your experiences with using psilocybin to treat mental health issues [Re: JFlowMan]
#28526666 - 11/02/23 02:15 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Hi JFlowMan
I think I should've done it like your friend did (starting to take shrooms whilst slowly tapering off of the SSRIs).
RE : MDMA. About 20 years ago I took 'E' whilst on SSRIs, a couple of times actually. Not a very smart thing to do I know, and potentially dangerous too. It was nowhere near as good as a regular 'E' experience. The SSRIs definitely reduced the effect and prevented me from reaching the usual euphoric peak. I certainly wasn't grinning like a fool and hugging everyone.
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Re: Tell me about your experiences with using psilocybin to treat mental health issues [Re: Mycodemus]
#28530369 - 11/05/23 10:11 AM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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As with all of the comments replying to your thread, I put out a fair disclaimer that you need to be careful and safe when experimenting with large dosages. You need to be ready for change.
I had my life-changing trip about four years ago after visiting the site and figuring out how to grow my own shrooms. I was struggling greatly from depression and anxiety. I had tried talk therapy and antidepressants, but I couldn’t turn the corner with how I was feeling.
I had some experience with mushrooms from my youth but not anything other than recreational. In September 2018 I took a 2 1/2 g trip which was very joyful and fun and I immediately felt a relief from my depression symptoms.
With that, I chose to complete a large dose trip in December 2018. Right before the Christmas break, I took 4 g of PF standard that I had successfully harvested.
What transpired from there was life-changing. It was not a fun trip. I fundamentally believe the mushrooms made the first trip fun to warm me up to the idea of a large dose strip,. This trip forced me to look at myself and deal with many things I had been suppressing. For example, I had never dealt with the death of my mother or grieved properly. I had never Considered how I was coping with life stress, and in reality not coping whatsoever. That night, I grieved for my mother and I processed stress that was in limbo in my mind as I didn’t know what to do with it. Fundamentally, I do believe I experienced an ego death.
The next day., I felt like an open wound. I couldn’t stop myself from feeling feelings and emotions. My ability to block everything out had been completely removed. I journaled for about four days straight and wrote 70 to 80 pages on my computer. Topics included everything about my life And where I was at. After about a week, the wound had healed, and I went on with my life. However, now I wasn’t so bothered by the things that used to bother me. I was able to cope, I started a regular journaling practice, I began to be physically active And cleaned up my diet. It was like a con-alt-delete for my brain.
I still microdose from time to time, but I have never gone back for another big trip. Maybe my ego is fighting the process, but it was an emotional and tough process that I absolutely needed at the time but don’t think I need right now.
I don’t subscribe to the idea of bad trips. The mushrooms will show you exactly what you need to see in order to heal and get better. Unfortunately, those things are often very painful and personal. A bad trip is nothing more than your mind, and the mushrooms, forcing you to deal with something that you can’t do in the conscious world.
With that being said, proceed cautiously. My issue was not a chemical imbalance, but a lack of understanding how to cope with life and regulate my mind which ultimately led me to a depressed state that I couldn’t figure out how to address. Go with the slow ramp up, get comfortable in the abstract and then decide if a big trip is for you. It’s not for everybody and a steady micro dose could be enough to balance everything out.
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Re: Tell me about your experiences with using psilocybin to treat mental health issues [Re: MGoMushroom]
#28535201 - 11/09/23 07:32 AM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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Hello everyone I found this thread extremely uplifting and positive for me to happen upon at this stage of my life.
I am Autistic, ADHD, and in therapy to try and work through 30+ yrs of CPTSD. I also had brain surgery in my teens and suffer from chronic irretractable and (traditional) med-resistant migraines and CH. This combination of circumstances, where I am at currently, has been really debilitating and I am once again starting this process of using natural substances to assist my healing. I am also in recovery for now over 12yrs and I am excited to begin this journey you all are also on. I am glad one of you also posted the AA thread I'll be reading that next and the OP's journal too. Some of the things you all have said has been very touching and as I read through this entire thread this morning drinking mate with my partner I cried twice as I identified heavily with a few of your life experiences and that there was hope. Just want to say thank you for everyone who has shared their struggles here. You all have given me some much needed hope and perspective!
I'd like to possible send messages to a few of you to personally say thanks again!
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