Originally published at: Psychedelics are "anti-distressants"with benefits beyond treating depression - Boing Boing
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From Allan Rose Hill!
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I’m real interested to see where this goes. Anecdotally, microdosing for a few weeks straight (and then never again!) helped me break the cycle of depression.
Not sure you could pay me to actually trip again though .
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Let’s be careful about billing psilocybin microdosing as a cure-all. I’m glad it worked well for you but I am curious if you also incorporated journaling, therapy, exercise, and other mindfulness as you worked on your depression? Additionally, how long ago did you microdose, and do you foresee the effects lasting, or do you feel like eventually you will “tune up” again?
Many people over on r/microdosing approach it as if it were some miracle drug and are bummed when it does not treat their depression/OCD/anxiety/etc. It is medicine but it takes a holistic approach to making modifications to your behaviors.
Additionally, it is best to follow a protocol and not take it every day. For example, the Fadiman protocol has you microdose 1 day on, 2 days off. I personally found that with both psilocybin and LSD that the days off were the ones that were super transformative for me, when lessons were revealed, old habits changed, new routines established.
As I said, I’m really happy it worked well for you but there are many caveats that people need to be aware of. For me, personally, it has been transformative in addition to some carefully placed macrodoses, daily journaling, therapy, and exercise.
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True of all psychiatric treatments. I get very tired of parents telling me that the meds “are not working.” Are you seeing a therapist? “We went once, but it didn’t help.” Are you doing the relaxation exercises we talked about? “They were too hard.” Have you gotten an organizer to take some of the last-minute panic pressure off? “We lost it.”
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How can I help you?
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Oh yeah, definitely not a magic cure all. I have done talk therapy for years, and have really come along way. In my particular case every 20 weeks or so would fall into a depression, and my therapist continued to insist that talk therapy would help with my depression as I had talked through a few other serious issues in my life.
I felt at this point I had tried her way for a couple of years and every 20 weeks I would shred or completely neglect some aspect of my life due to this, so when some shrooms popped up (heh) I grabbed them and gave it a go.
I talked to someone local here about how to go about it, and what I did was grind it up and put it into capsules of 1/10 mg each. When I felt the slide happening, I started taking them. One if I hadn’t taken one the day before, two if it was a rough day and none if I’d taken them two days in a row.
It wasn’t magic, but I didn’t hit that black bottom. I kept busy, but everything I did was 75% of the my normal life speed. It essentially let me practice keeping my life on a standard, even keel for nearly a year and that practice paid off. That’s how I look at it anyway, I’m sure there’s some serotonin and chemistry behind it as well that will tell the scientific tale.
And jeez, for everyone I tell my tale to, there’s like 5 people there are like “No way” heh. It’s been a couple of years, but I’ve done a lot of other things (diet, excercise and clean livin’) that also contribute.
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Right on! I’m glad it worked for you and you’re definitely taking the holistic approach to your mental health. Be well!
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