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.
