Can’t possibly discount the possibility that this is FUD put out by the pharmaceutical industry to counterweight the increased openness to psychedelics, in part from Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind book and Netflix series.

My experience has been that with proper set and setting, I got months of relief from a good psychedelic experience. Shrooms. My first mushroom trip I had tears streaming down my face for something like two hours- but there was such profound relief along with it, like I was feeling and letting go of decades of the sorts of things that get a person a complex trauma diagnosis.

I’ve tried LSD; it was more cerebral whereas shrooms had a more emotional component. LSD didn’t provide that sort of relief. But the visuals were stunning (which, while newt to experience, isn’t what I was hoping for).

Also tried ketamine sessions at my primary care dr’s office. Did not like it; during the trip, which seemed to have a duration of eternity, I was a disembodied consciousness considering my life. I could genuinely see this as being somewhere between disconcerting and alarming as hell to a first -timer. Also, it wasn’t particularly cathartic and the clinical setting was an unwelcome distraction.