Naturalistic psilocybin use associated with persisting improvement in wellbeing
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Until we get proper controlled studies we don't need to talk about that imho
https://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/clinical-psychedelic-lab...
I found out recently that they have 91,000 members, and counting.
There has to be a way, the cat's out of the bag and has been for years.
Or you could buy a book of mushrooms native to your area, identify the funguys, and take a walk foraging.
Whether you get put on a list to get a knock at 3am later… probably not unless you start selling grown shrooms.
Simple as
So, to put it bluntly no. It's not that simple or comparable and the study already shows it affects different people differently with some ending up resulting in a negative experience overall.
This is one of the key problems with the capitalistic approach to modern medicine - you do the trials, you get approval based on the majority result, Done. There's not much research into what doesn't fit and why it doesn't fit, because there's no money in it.
Yet all the end-users of the supposed cure that aren't in that majority actually end up suffering more because once you find out something doesn't work for you you get rejected by the system, or put on the 'try a different one' endless go-round. This is way more of a problem in mental rather than physiological health, because emotional states are much less consistent and harder to quantify than things like blood pressure or iron levels etc. etc.
That being said, if you do fit the majority then maybe you can just add it to your set of stuff you take.
One does have to wonder why we need to medicate ourselves to cope with reality rather than change reality instead. My gut feel is because its easier to understand/influence. Doesn't mean its the correct thing to do, its just something that is achievable and makes things better. Kind of like using humour as coping mechanism to avoid a situation.
I mean 7% having a negative experience after a few months of use is better than coffee right?
I don't know coffee's stats but people that are co-dependent on coffee think its waaaay more normalized than it is. 17.5 drink decaf which is like 95% less caffiene, basically trace amounts
I think the participants already don't represent the everyday person or even coffee drinker, but I certainly don't disagree with your last statement either.
It's just "dependent" or "addicted"", codependency is something else entirely
Psychedelic therapy can reveal things about your reality that you may have been completely blind to or unaware of, thus enabling you to change it.
To use these substances properly, it's not just about taking the substance and having an enlightening experience and then being done with it.
It's about taking what you learned about your reality, what you want to change about it, and then integrating/implementing that into your every day life in the weeks, months, and years afterwards. That's where the real work is.
A lot of our problems are due to self deception. One thing psychedelics are good for is being able to see through the lies we tell ourselves and face the facts about our behaviors.
I really look forward to more studies exploring use of psylocybin.
> any chance the correct dose of this becomes the new caffeine or coffee?
Surely not with a micro dose?
Honestly, while these things can help, they aren't cognitive panaceas. They won't teach you pacing or how to manage your stress, they're not substitutes for active improvement efforts, and you won't suddenly have better ideas.
I don't recommend them or discourage their use, but if they might help you realize that maybe you shouldn't be living in a way that required coffee all the time, that naps are natural and you can take them when you want and not be less of a person, or that maybe trying to fit your natural rhythm to something that doesn't suit you isn't the smartest way to live, then I'd say that's great but that you also don't need a mushroom to convince you of that.