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Single psilocybin trip delivers two years of depression relief for cancer patients (www.sciencedaily.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

iirc from research I've read it doesn't matter if the trip is good or bad, it still relieves depression all the same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn't have depression, but I wanted to try the experience after hearing how much someone I knew enjoyed it. I had a terrible trip (in a safe space, with good intentions, an experienced user I trusted very deeply, etc. etc. etc.) and suddenly developed pretty gnarly depression and felt like an unnamed part of my brain was missing/out of reach for over 2 years... I'm only one data point and my experience seems uncommon, but I definitely won't be touching shrooms ever again. It's only in the last 6 or so months that I've felt more "myself" and have been making progress out of the hole I was dropped into.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Entirely believable, literally nothing is 100% the same for every individual person

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

yeah, that's what I heard too

I hope the experience what some kind of catharsis and he's gonna learn from it