Microdosing psilocybin (magic mushrooms)

[Cr33pin]

First and foremost this is not a thread for talking about completely recreational abuse of any psychedelics

In recent years there has been a pretty substantial number of studies showing that psychedelics really have beneficial properties when it comes to treating things like PTSD, depression, anxiety and other mental health ailments. Last week I discovered some acquaintances of mine micro dose shrooms and I thought that explained a lot about there constant chipper demeanor, spirituality, and connection to nature. So I started looking more and more into it and I found nothing but praise from almost all of those who had personal experience with it. Without going into detail I suffered abuse as a child and the older I get the easier it is for me to recognize certain traits and characteristics that stem from that trauma. My plan is to try micro dosing for therapeutic purposes next month... the timing lines up well with a cliché New Year/ New you type scenario.

Would love to hear about any experiences either first or second hand from people knowledgeable of the subject

I am not a big nut rider of this fellow.... but I thought he really nailed it in this video.

If anyone is planning on coming in here and demonizing mushrooms..... let us not forget that they played a pivotal role in the forum's shift away from debauchery and towards enlightenment

 

[get2choppaaa]

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First and foremost this is not a thread for talking about completely recreational abuse of any psychedelics

In recent years there has been a pretty substantial number of studies showing that psychedelics really have beneficial properties when it comes to treating things like PTSD, depression, anxiety and other mental health ailments. Last week I discovered some acquaintances of mine micro dose shrooms and I thought that explained a lot about there constant chipper demeanor, spirituality, and connection to nature. So I started looking more and more into it and I found nothing but praise from almost all of those who had personal experience with it. Without going into detail I suffered abuse as a child and the older I get the easier it is for me to recognize certain traits and characteristics that stem from that trauma. My plan is to try micro dosing for therapeutic purposes next month... the timing lines up well with a cliché New Year/ New you type scenario.

Would love to hear about any experiences either first or second hand from people knowledgeable of the subject

I am not a big nut rider of this fellow.... but I thought he really nailed it in this video.

If anyone is planning on coming in here and demonizing mushrooms..... let us not forget that they played a pivotal role in the forum's shift away from debauchery and towards enlightenment

I did not have good experiences with mushrooms. They had major negatives for me. Bad trip, panic attack, psychotic rage the whole 9 yards any time i took them.

I would reccomended Church, lifestyle and sleep (possibly testosterone level check) before recommending the drug psychedelic mushrooms route.

I've heard that it does good things for some people... But i think that's the exception not the norm.

 

[jarlo]

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I did not have good experiences with mushrooms. They had major negatives for me. Bad trip, panic attack, psychotic rage the whole 9 yards any time i took them.

I would reccomended Church, lifestyle and sleep (possibly testosterone level check) before recommending the drug psychedelic mushrooms route.

I've heard that it does good things for some people... But i think that's the exception not the norm.

Microdosing is much different from a full blown mushroom trip - what you're describing was probably a large amount of mushrooms and/or in a bad situation. Microdosing would involve taking something like 1-3% of whatever you took to induce your bad trips, and would not induce any psychedelic experience. Extrapolating from some bad trips to all mushrooms being bad in all situations is like getting indigestion from eating thirty apples and then saying that apples are intrinsically harmful.

I haven't watched the Russell Brand video, but I've heard enough anecdotes and read second hand summaries of research which convinced me there's a significant possibility that micro doses of psilocybin can work as an effective, non addictive antidepressant. However, as the thumbnail of the video seems to insinuate, pharmaceutical companies likely lobby to keep it illegal, because it would undermine their monopoly on antidepressants in the form of SSRIs, which are also much more difficult to stop taking. Like all substances, psilocybin can induce psychological dependence, but as far as I know, and unlike SSRIs, psilocybin doesn't induce physical dependence.

I do agree with @get2choppaaa , however, that if your sleep/diet/exercise is out of whack, those are other important factors I'd try to address at the same time as this microdosing experiment.

 

[Lawrence87]

I've tripped on mushrooms in the past, but I've never tried 'microdosing'. It has negative associations for me because whenever I'd misjudged dosage in the past and not had enough to "get there" I always felt empty and horrible. Note that I no longer take mushrooms at all and would not advocate them to anyone.

That being said I have heard of benefits to microdosing. My instincts tell me however, that its just a part of trying to science your way to a kind of materialistic salvation that seems common these days. You know all these lists of life hacks that make you feel better and grant you longevity, increase your virility or whatever. "I wake up at 6.30, microdose on mushrooms, drink a horrendously hideous smoothie, take 27 supplements, hit the gym, after that I drink some hideous brown liquid derived from a root found in Papua New Guinea that makes you more alert and less gay..." Like, really you just need Christ.

Not saying that these things are not beneficial in some way but the main thing is to get your spiritual life in order. I'd personally stay away from anything material as a means of alleviating spiritual struggles (depression)