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Single psilocybin trip delivers two years of depression relief for cancer patients (www.sciencedaily.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

what a coincidence

I just came out of a trip with my bf

he had a really bad trip, unfortunately. I gave him alprazolam and it did nothing

after about 3-4 hours he got better, took a shower, ate, now he's sleeping soundly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know what alprozolam is but a bad trip sounds way better than that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Alprozolam is generic for Xanax. Which is a severe anti anxiety drug and heavily abused on the street.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

yup, but in this specific context I actually had a prescription from my psychiatrist, who gave it to me to use to kill a bad trip (he is aware me and my bf use magic mushrooms sometimes)

I ended up messaging my doctor, but when he answered my bf was already getting better, so I just took care of him and gave him a half tablet of Seroquel (quetiapine) to sleep, and now he's good again (that's what my doctor told me to do)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

iirc from research I've read it doesn't matter if the trip is good or bad, it still relieves depression all the same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I didn't have depression, but I wanted to try the experience after hearing how much someone I knew enjoyed it. I had a terrible trip (in a safe space, with good intentions, an experienced user I trusted very deeply, etc. etc. etc.) and suddenly developed pretty gnarly depression and felt like an unnamed part of my brain was missing/out of reach for over 2 years... I'm only one data point and my experience seems uncommon, but I definitely won't be touching shrooms ever again. It's only in the last 6 or so months that I've felt more "myself" and have been making progress out of the hole I was dropped into.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Entirely believable, literally nothing is 100% the same for every individual person

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

yeah, that's what I heard too

I hope the experience what some kind of catharsis and he's gonna learn from it