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Educating yourself on psychoactive substances is a good advise. Saying that, many people who are dealing with depression and anxiety need active help. Growing and consuming your own mushrooms might be a very counterproductive or even dangerous advise for an inexperienced person with severe anxiety.

Managed ketamine therapy starts as low as $1200 for 6 sessions I believe.

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Those 6 sessions are bundled with a long manuscript that relieves the clinic from all liability, so you're on your own anyway.

Check out Mindbloom. These sessions are bundled with a psychiatric and medical assessment, integration sessions, clear and easy to follow guidance for every session, music options. They are very focused on “set and setting”. Also the first session requires you to have a guide present (your friend or relative), who has to communicate over video with your Mindbloom guide right before the session.

This system is not perfect but practically as close as it can get to a fully guided affordable session.

Do you have any experience with them? From this recent article it seems like they are having issues with scaling and staff turnover: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpp3k/psychedelic-telemedic...

I am having an exceptionally positive experience with them. Saying that, I am pretty experienced when it comes to therapy and psychedelics, so didn’t need a lot of handholding from them.

> as low as $1200 for 6 sessions

Never change HN. Even for many people in tech, this is not a trivial sum.

For many people, $1200 is functionally equivalent to $12 billion. Alternative solutions are good.

> Growing and consuming your own mushrooms might be a very counterproductive or even dangerous advise for an inexperienced person with severe anxiety.

This is terrible advice that needs to stop being perpetuated.

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