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Low dosage psilocybin to treat depression?

bit_pattern said:
Thanks timps - very useful. I like hearing you differentiate between therapeutic/recreational doses and that you consider low doses as being therapeutic . How regularly did/do you dose?
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I've tried to have an enlightening trip i think 3 times, but only achieved it once. That however was all it took. I think the altered ways you think in trips give the potential to work out the reasons and solutions to problems. I know it's really hit or miss and that most trips are just fun. When I've tried for enlightenment I've simply entered my trip with a written question to consider, but like I said it only worked once. I imagine that having a sober friend there that can keep you on track may help.
After the trip that worked I had 6 months sober so nothing got in the way while I put into place what I'd learned to establish positive rather than negative thought patterns.
Like I said before I only had 1 exploratory trip that worked, but found using mushrooms to help with post mdma depression by accident. I used mushrooms for post mdma depression around 6 times after the initial time. Each time I took around 0.5g liberty caps and each time it was effective. I tried that dose as I knew I'd be able to sleep on it easily. I just took them before I went to bed and woke up feeling better. I no longer need to use this method, I took a good long break from mdma to lower my resistance to it and get over my obsession withit. Now I only take a low dose a couple of times a year and don't have awful come downs any more.
As for mushrooms, I still use them but only recreationally. I still think they can be a powerful tool, and wouldn't hesitate to try to use them to try to find an answer to something I was stuck over. I don't think they're the whole answer- if you don't address the issues then you're likely to slip back into depression. I say this as I'd used mushrooms recreationally before I used them to get an answer, and each time depression returned. Since I addressed my negative thought patterns and established positive ones, I've had around 14 depression free years, and I've had some experiences in that time that would have sent me into a depressive spiral before.
If you try them out, please post your experiences, I'd like to read them.
Good luck, I think luck plays a part in this.
 
Hi Bit Pattern .... Not to bore you with my own details but I can really identify with your situation, and the posts in this thread are very interesting indeed. Have you given this a shot? I'm hoping to be able to contribute to this research in a few months time and will document the results in as much detail as possible. Hope to hear some reports on this.
 
0.5gr psilocybe cubensis would be my guess. It helps me loosen up and leaves me with an afterglow.
 
I am going to bump this thread and ask if anyone who micro doses shrooms as anti depressant has found 4aco-dmt to work as well? It's for a friend who is micro dosing for depression but isn't crazy about taste. I told her there are various synthetic mushroom like substances available but I wasn't sure how any were for depression.
 
3rd eye: I have never self medicated with mushrooms or taken a research chemical like 4aco-dmt but if your friend does not like the taste of fresh or dried mushrooms tell him or her to grind them up and put them into a gelcap. They're not taking a huge dose so this should be easy to do. Self medicating depression with even psychedelic drugs is a lose lose situation and will only make someone's depression or other mental illness issues worse in the long run.
 
First time i did shrooms it was a 3.1 dried gram dose.. Needless to say i was tripping balls, and i was kind of depressed in those days.. when the trip really kicked in i started to cry HARD. I cried so hard I could in front of my friend who was thinking "wtf" to himself..
This was because I think I realized just what makes me sad and happy, depressed and euphoric.. its something in me, my mind.
When the trip ended and I came down, I was filled with this happy feeling and realization that we are finely tuned by nature.. and life is stranger than any one of us will ever know. No reason to be depressed.
It really helped me look at myself in a new way.. I will never forget that day

A few weeks ago I decided to take on the Psilocybin again, and see what he could do to me. So I did 2.5 dried grams with two of my friends.. patterns on the walls and breathing walls soon emerged. This time it felt like the whole infinity was inside me, that infinity and randomness has made this body, this mind, this life, this universe... what are we? Where are we going? And what the f*** is humanity doing these days? One of the most spiritual feelings ever...

it also made me much more concious it feels like.. these days i feel like if I want something to happen.. I can make it happen easily by using my concioussness to make it happen, dont wait for things to happen. Use your own magic and make it happen, be concious, be aware and beleive in yourself.

It helped cure my depression for a lot of things... but I'm still kind of depressed we live in a capitalist hell and humanity is never gonna be able to live a good life with this system, and that almost nobody knows we are getting F**** everyday by rich elitists...
Dream on the infinity and never forget, capitalists with little or no empathy are always worth less than the dirt under your shoes

With all this said, I'd say a large dose of shrooms can treat depression or at least be very helpful...
But it all depends on how afraid you are of the drug.. im not really scared so I could handle the big doses.
If you're the kind of guy who always freaks out and thinks youre GONNA die or you're GONNA go insane when shit starts to kick in, then keep to low doses.
 
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I'm not sure if the shrooms are of any help for depression, but Banisteriopsis caapi or Peganum harmala are MAOIs. And MAOIs are one of the tickets for treating depression, at least some forms of it.

Careful with the interaction of MAOIs and other drugs/food, though.

What will leave you depressed is the taste of caapi or harmala concoctions. You'll wish you didn't have taste buds.
 
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