Research at the Imperial College of London are reporting that hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms may provide a “reset” of the brain for depression sufferers. It was a small study that worked on about half of the subjects for about 5 weeks.
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Don’t ever take Shrooms.
Mind bending scary trip with
ALL the colors of the rainbow.
Dude at a bar told me that 40 years
ago…
It explains Pelosi and Marxine.
Then the crash after 5 weeks is tough to take.
i tried them a couple times back in 77. would’ve done more if i could have found them.
psilocybin, a “lubricant for the mind”.
Mind altering drugs allow you to Slide right on out of reality, you won’t care if you are depressed or not (for a short period of time).
If anything of this study is true, you are momentarily altering the symptom of depression, not the cause.
Reality always returns to smack you in the face.
Attack the cause, not the symptoms.
Magic mushrooms AKA psilocybin are not good, I scared the hell out of myself doing them only once back in 1974. And then I was depressed, whoever commissions these studies doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about. And don’t ever listen to Jefferson Starship’s album Blows Against The Empire (I now hate this album with a purple passion) while on magic mushrooms with headphones on, I thought that I had become demon possessed doing that. Fortunately it was it was one of the things that scared me straight, never, ever again.
The people that I’ve known that have tried magic mushrooms were never in a big hurry to have more.
the shrooms i took were not psychodelic, but they certainly affected my mood. if i could have replicated those 2 nights every weekend, i would have.
As an amateur mycologist, know them and their power.
When we had horses, I ignored a bunch.
Like Dr.Tar and the anteater say, shit’s intense.
Last time, I kissed a cop horse on Bourbon St.
Quite honestly, if I was given a choice between a pharmaceutical drug to that would bring me long-term damage to my kidneys and/or give me tardive dyskenesia or a mushroom to treat my depression I’d go down that rabbit hole every single time.
Just say “perhaps” to drugs.
But are they organic?
My limited research on this subject was conducted in various environments spanning several years, commencing in the late ’70s.
I have consulted my notes from that period which are somewhat disordered and fragmentary, and in some cases of questionable value.
Consequently, reconstruction of these impressions was difficult, and further hampered by the long passage if time.
Due to the nature of the product, procurement, quality, potency, and dosage was largely dictated by local factors; investigators were forced to rely on expedient guesswork, and no small amount of luck.
A summary:
1) Product is ingested orally, a small quantity of dried stalks and caps chewed until mushy, then swallowed.
2)There is no immediate psychoactive effect for a half-hour or so. Subject may be tempted to repeat the dose. Some queasiness or slight nausea reported, this passes quickly.
3) About that time, things start to get interesting.
4) Quoted from notes: question marks indicate unreadable text.
“????colors??? giddiness, exhilaration,??? electric haze??? strobelike visuals, ??tingling, vibrations, ??? pleasant numbness?? visual and auditory distortions????mind and body functions stimulated…” (At this point notes become indecipherable gibberish.)
5) Effects last 4-5 hours, depending on environmental factors, dosage, other participants etc.
6) Effects terminate abruptly, do not seem to taper off.
7) There is little backlash or hangover, a night’s sleep will restore the subject.
8) However, some time must elapse before repeating the dose.
If attempted the next day there will be little if any effect.
9) This we believe is due to the depletion of neural transmitters caused by increased synaptic activity, Within a few days, natural balance is restored.
Conclusions:
Effects are quite similar to mescalote (or good acid.) In comparison with other mind-altering substances, ‘shrooms appear relatively benign, and presumably less risky than synthetics such as STP, MDA, LSD etc, as well as alkaloids, opiates, stimulants and barbiturates.
Used occasionally there is little danger of dependency, and after effects seem transitory. We have no data on long-term effects.
A final word to the wise:
Know your fungoids!
And for God’s sake stay away from designer drugs, inhalants, tranquilizers, solvents and injectables.
“For Duty and Humanity.”
I’ve read several studies on this subject and there is evidence that controlled doses is very effective. Not only depression but has worked wonders on drug and alcohol addition. It offers hope for people at wits end.
All I know, is I tried them once, and I was everything BUT depressed
I Shroomed twice in the 80s, and it was an incredibly fun time !
I can see how it would Reset’s the priorities of the brain, that shutting off the anxiety door and showing them it can be done is great !
You could buy the spores from folks who advertised in the back of magazines in the late 70s & early 80s.Not saying I ever bought or grew any.
I’ve tried mushrooms before. Some were weak. Some were incredibly potent. All made me nauseous. I don’t even like mushrooms on a pizza. Not my thing though.
My preference would be LSD that was made correctly and which I have not had in more than 20 years at this point. It changed my life for the better. Having the right people around and a proper atmosphere afforded me an opportunity for self-evaluation on the nature of my relationships with other people and a destructive view I had of myself without a lot of the guardrails that our minds erect as a defense mechanism and to rationalize bad behavior.
It’s not for everyone. Like anchovies, Mazda Miatas, or rolling toilet paper over rather than under.
In a supposed “free” country, you should have the opportunity to make that choice without the fear that you’ll be thrown in jail longer than a murderer.
Make tea with them; don’t drink it fast, and eat the dregs SLOWLY.
Down the hatch is not recommended.
That is all.
Once upon a time…there was a field just outside Lake Oswego where ‘one’ could pick these, along with other fellow pickers. Chances are you’d be on the news. There was also a field on the right just before you got into Tillamook, well worth the trip.
In 1984 I solved the nature of the universe and nobody seems to care…
Anything that can reverse intractable depression that doesn’t injure the patient is a must have.