Tread carefully when altering the processes that constitute your ability to reason. I know somebody who nearly broke their mind by dosing with this and that chemical to self heal their issues.
Were they microdosing, or repeatedly consuming full doses of psychedelics? Were "this and that chemical" psychedelics at all, or drugs of unknown type and providence? What is the connection to this discussion, which is about adults microdosing psychedelics?
Wow, tone it down a notch. It was an adult microdosing on psychedelics.
Which ones?
I know someone who took psilocybin mushrooms and it seemed to be the beginning / unlocking of schizophrenia for them.
That was what happened with Brian Wilson.
Unfortunately in these cases it is difficult to disentangle the effect of the drugs from the underlying problem they were trying to treat.
Definitely true, but it feels like proponents have a heads i win tails you lose mindset to these anecdotes. When things go well, it's bc of the drugs, and when things go poorly, it's the underlying issues.
same here. it took them years to get back to almost-baseline, and they still have chronic insomnia triggered by the trip.
This article is about microdosing, which is very small doses of psychedelics, well under the threshold dose for a proper psychedelic "trip". For psilocybin, a microdose would be on the order of 200mg, which is 1/10th the minimum threshold dose for a full-on trip (2 grams).
Microdosing isn't going to alter your ability to reason.
Everything looks gravely dangerous if we hand pick bad outcomes.
Everything is gravely dangerous if you ignore looking at bad outcomes.
Sam Harris states that, when it comes to self discovery, meditation is like a sail boat slowly heading towards mental clarity. In contrast, psychedelics are like strapping yourself to a rocket and hoping you see clarity and change your mind along the wild, dangerous ride.