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after my trip my depression went way down even if my ex was pissed at me during it (surprisingly didnt make me crash)
should take it again soon as that was almsot 5 years ago
Yeah for me 4 times a year would be ideal but i tend to put it off a lot even though the experience is always enjoyable
I think its important that talking therapy was included too.
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
I don’t know what alprozolam is but a bad trip sounds way better than that
Alprozolam is generic for Xanax. Which is a severe anti anxiety drug and heavily abused on the street.
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)
iirc from research I've read it doesn't matter if the trip is good or bad, it still relieves depression all the same
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.
Entirely believable, literally nothing is 100% the same for every individual person
yeah, that's what I heard too
I hope the experience what some kind of catharsis and he's gonna learn from it
TBH partner and I are keen to give this a go for anxiety/depression. Keen for it to become standard)/accepted
If you have an interest, you're ready for them. For what it's worth, I find that the bad trips are the most beneficial. They're a manifestation of problems often ignored, displayed in a way that is highly symbolic.
What were the numbers for people who just got therapy?
Meaning like a single therapy session? The answer is close to zero
No. The group that tripped once was getting regular therapy sessions both before and after. There should have been a control group getting the same amount of therapy, but the article makes no mention of their percentage rates.
Yeah, that is the key question. Not to mention that the headline is giving 100% of the 'credit' to the psilocybin.
Smells fishy to me.
I do not doubt this for a second. These trips, well done and accompanied, in a safe setting, can be very therapeutic.