If it were me, I'd go for shrooms, hard for me to judge the situation and all, but I'd go for shrooms surely.
Of course, as you know, MDMA has had quite some succes in PTSD treatment, in my eyes you might potentially get some beautiful days out of it even if you don't reach your personal goals, I say: go for it. Sometimes it's good to dive in deep, and there's almost nothing better than magic mushrooms for it, hope the microdosing experiment is going well.
Btw, quite some microdose 1p-LSD tabs are being sold around the clearnet, I've had some around 20ug one time, which I find a little too much for a microdose, but about 10-15ug is great.
What is it about mushrooms that makes you say this? If you don't know, that's OK, I am just curious. For me, I am choosing shrooms as a candidate because it's a low intensity psychedelic that also has a plant spirit with it. I think fungi are amazing in the natural world and they are intelligent. I'm going to buy shrooms, grind them into powder, and measure out 25mg doses in capsules. I'll take those twice a week. Then I'll upgrade to 50mg, then eventually 100mg. At the point that it becomes too much, I'll downgrade to the previous level. This seems to be the microdosing regimen that therapists are endorsing.
How would you compare 1p-LSD to LSD?
Foreigner: have you ever used shrooms for your PTSD/trauma?
I second the fact that I think they'd be likely to help and I'm sure you know they are being looked into as an antidepressant.
Then again, I mean, I'd have a hard time imagining you haven't done shrooms tons of times as most people on this forum have.
For me, I haven't tripped on many psychedelics, mostly just LSD, shrooms, Salvia and one time on baby hawaiian woodrose and morning glory seeds (boy was that a story...got SUPEr sick....) but for me, LSD and shrooms are night and day: Acid I get anxious usually, whereas I've never really gotten anxious on shrooms, just totally peaceful.
I've done shrooms before but always at higher doses, causing breakthrough hallucinogenic experiences. We're talking out-of-reality experiences. I've never done mushrooms at a sub-threshold level with microdosing like I have with ketamine, so I'd be interested to explore this. I just want to be safe. I am so paranoid about triggering my auto-immune condition. But part of that paranoia is my PTSD that I need to work on. Underneath that paranoia is a lot of hurt over everything that has happened to me that I have been unable to unpack. I need a psychedelic ally to do so.
Btw... apologies if I seemed harsh in my request for support. I hope you don't feel dismissed. I'm just kind of desperate and I need more focus on my shit.
For me it's the opposite, LSD is very easy to handle (except in high doses) and mushrooms are very erratic. Mushrooms have more value in healing and spirituality though, they're just more of a challenge for me. I don't take them recreationally but I take acid just for fun (at festivals, etc). My first trip was on mushrooms and it changed my life.
Higher doses of mushrooms completely remove me from reality. I would call them shamanic. I have to lie down and then my eyes close and I'm off to another universe. The imagery is extremely vivid and in technicolour. For example, last time I did mushrooms, when I hit the bed, I closed my eyes and suddenly I was seeing the formation of planet Earth from outer space, during its fiery, volcanic tectonic epoch, before life ever existed. I mean, who knows if that's what it really looked like, but the vision was intensely vivid and real like I was watching it from the viewpoint of the creator. It was really cool -- but what was the point?
Mushrooms connect me to earthly things like that.
I have never microdosed LSD or mushrooms. How do you even microdose LSD, anyway? Do you need to use liquid LSD? I only have blotter.
I'm attracted to mushrooms because they have a spirit signature, and because I think fungi networks are similar to neural patterns. According to the doctrine of signatures, they would be good medicine for the brain. This is confirmed in how mushrooms cause the release of neural growth factor.
LSD is utterly magical and cosmic. I love it for that. But... it's ungrounding for me and doesn't really help me unpack trauma. Also it lasts too long and I don't want to get stuck in what feels like a forever-trip.