I Have to admit that i read this with amusement. Some people claim taking illegal drugs etc makes them better, whether it be magic mushrooms or cocaine or heroin etc. The whole reason people take drugs is the (hopefully) wonderful experience they will have and/or claims of medicinal effects.
I believe magic mushrooms are a psychotropic, meaning that you can hallucinate etc with it. Generally speaking such psychotropics can cause long term psychological damage. Especially if taken often.
Just because it *might* have worked, doesn't mean it wouldn't cause worse problems in the future. Take the example of alcohol. Wonderful to have isn't it? Even more wonderful in large quantities. Yet we don't even bother to think that its quite damaging to out body. Short term, other then maybe throwing up, isn't a big issue. Long term abuse leads to liver damage.
Magic mushrooms are the same, except they are more potent, and they are more effective at undermining brain processes.
Now i am basing this information on a few books i have read and on a close friend of mine who has taken every drug under the sun as far as i know, and has serious psychological issues linked to it. Now, unless some fantastical information has been released saying all i have said is totally wrong, then fine. Otherwise try to stay away from such drugs, as they have vastly unpredictable and long term harming results.
I believe magic mushrooms are a psychotropic, meaning that you can hallucinate etc with it. Generally speaking such psychotropics can cause long term psychological damage. Especially if taken often.
Just because it *might* have worked, doesn't mean it wouldn't cause worse problems in the future. Take the example of alcohol. Wonderful to have isn't it? Even more wonderful in large quantities. Yet we don't even bother to think that its quite damaging to out body. Short term, other then maybe throwing up, isn't a big issue. Long term abuse leads to liver damage.
Magic mushrooms are the same, except they are more potent, and they are more effective at undermining brain processes.
Now i am basing this information on a few books i have read and on a close friend of mine who has taken every drug under the sun as far as i know, and has serious psychological issues linked to it. Now, unless some fantastical information has been released saying all i have said is totally wrong, then fine. Otherwise try to stay away from such drugs, as they have vastly unpredictable and long term harming results.
'shrooms are great! I found another drug that works for me - Fukitol - visit their website from the same name :-)
Shroom Man.
You have fried your brain cells in a big way, and I hope that the readers of this column are taking your advice with a lot more than a grain of salt. I hope you get your act together. I am sure you mean well. Just don' t get yourself into a situations where you have responsibility for anyone other than yourself.
Taking anti depressants is mind altering enough. Doing halllucinogenics and smoking weed along with them makes for a very unstable combination.
Good luck
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You have fried your brain cells in a big way, and I hope that the readers of this column are taking your advice with a lot more than a grain of salt. I hope you get your act together. I am sure you mean well. Just don' t get yourself into a situations where you have responsibility for anyone other than yourself.
Taking anti depressants is mind altering enough. Doing halllucinogenics and smoking weed along with them makes for a very unstable combination.
Good luck
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yeah look u newbs are fukwits, copraphillia mushrooms are easy to find, they help OCD and panic disorder which ive had both,
Real gold tops or blue streaked veined mushrooms are just a wonderful gift from nature, slimy brown mushrooms as ive stated are not poisonous! they do NOT have side effects and should be considered for ocd/panic disorder sufferers
Real gold tops or blue streaked veined mushrooms are just a wonderful gift from nature, slimy brown mushrooms as ive stated are not poisonous! they do NOT have side effects and should be considered for ocd/panic disorder sufferers
I completely agree with those saying that mushrooms gave them paranoia and anxiety. I took mushrooms the first time, ate about an eighth and nothing happened. about a month later, a few friends were drinking at my house and at about 4 in the morning, after drinking all night, we decided to take mushrooms. my boyfriend and i took them in our room while our 2 friends and roommate took them in his room. we told them to let them kick in and come hang out with us in about 45 minutes. about an hour later we all went into the living room to hang out and start tripping together. Our roommate decided to play Slipknot (and i am into much HAPPIER music especially while entering my first shroom trip) so i freaked out and my boyfriend and I went back into our room. The lighting, our posters and the decor of the room made me feel like i was in a native american cave. my boyfriend tried getting some weed out of our safe but the numbers were all mixed up. I tried and honest to God, the numbers showing up were something like 71...56.2...3...4/2. Needless to say, neither of us could open it. Next, my boyfriend had a picture of a complete abstract picture drawn with ink, so i sat and stared at it for a while, simultaneously playing with our cat. It was a great time, then the shrooms turned on me. Our roommate came in, whom i did not care for at all. He set a bad vibe in the room (on shrooms; the place you take them = safe zone). I started freaking out and told him to get out of my room. Everything was okay for a while until i heard my roommate and his friend throwing things around the bathroom screaming "I LOVE SHROOMS!". Being on mushrooms, i was not having that at all and told them to shut up. From then on i could NOT have a happy trip. I put on some spandex shorts and started walking around the house. In my mind i "calculated" that the trip should be over by 8 (really it wasnt until 12 or so that the time should have been) and i saw that it was 5:30. there on our, every time i looked at a digital clock it said 5:37, no matter what time it actually was. I went to my best friend who was sleeping on the front couch (she didnt do mushrooms because she had to work in the morning). I woke her up crying and i told her that i hated everyones voices in there and i wanted to kill them. She has taken them before so she held me and played with my hair to try to make me feel better. Before I knew it i was freaking out again and stood up and told her not to touch me anymore. when i stood up i felt like i was 8 feet tall and could touch both ends of the room with my arms. i paced around the house a little more until my boyfriend grabbed me and pulled me into our room. His trip had been completely ruined by my paranoia. I laid in bed and tried to fall asleep but i couldnt. every time i closed my eyes i would sit up thinking there was someone in the room. as it got light out (about 7 or so) i tried to grasp every ounce of reality that i could. mostly everything was fine by then, the only thing was we had a Marian Hossa poster on our ceiling and the white letters saying "HOSSA" seemed to change color and they kind of looked like the neon light signs in store windows. Now, what most of you are thinking is that my trip didnt seem too bad. it actually sounds kind of fun when you read it. However, i cant explain to you the fear and paranoia i experienced that night. The thing i couldnt stop thinking about was putting myself into a schizophrenic's position. Imagining that they see and hear these things all day long. at about 9 am my boyfriend tried making things better by bringing me a beer, more shrooms, and played a pleasant happy song. I broke down in tears and told him that i just had the worst night of my life. I tried them again and they didnt work, as didnt the first time I took them. i am willing to do them again but DEFINITELY only during the day (the night would bring bad memories, and the night is just scary) and ONLY with my boyfriend and just him (he's probably the only person who i trust with my life). Take my advice. DO NOT DO MUSHROOMS WITH PEOPLE YOU DONT TRUST! Even just people who you in your mind just dont like. it WILL ruin your trip. Dont think that you have to be at a party or something to do shrooms and have fun. I suggest doing it with one person who you completely trust and will have a good time with you. it's also good to have a "safety" there (someone who is sober) who you also trust. have fun, be safe, and i hope you have a better time than i did!
I tried shrooms a few years back and it didn't do ANYTHING to me. I was probably only 14 years old and had no clue what it was but everyone I was around was going to try them and I didn't think to ask what shrooms was. Anyway, since I thought I had tried shrooms, then four years later i tried chocolate bars, didnt do anything for me.. and about 5 years later I figured ehh ive done them and nothing happened to ill be fine. I got ahold of some really dank ones with blue molding and some had not even burst yet (which r really good ones) The day I decided to try them again all I kept thinking was keep a clear mind because everyone said you don't want to have a lot of stuff on your mind. So i ate about 2 grams. Which was apparently more than enough because what I thought was a shroom trip when i was 14 wasnt ANYTHING compared to this. I ate them at about 8:30-9pm and it didn't go away til about 3:00am (exactly 6 hours) and let me tell you.... it was the most horrifying thing in the world to me. I felt like I knew things about the universe than anyone else. I would be laying there absolutely miserable trying to figure out how to come out of the trip, and I'd close my eyes to try and sleep it off and YOU CAN NOT DO ANYTHING TO STOP THE TRIP! I would just try to sleep and laugh out of nowhere with my eyes closed. I'd vision things constantly. At one point even felt like a baby about to be born into the world, I felt like my bathroom was closing in on me, I saw my kittens grow into large lions, my home - my "safe zone" was turned upside down! my kitchen looked like some land of the lost kitchen with dents in the floor, and my sink and counter looked as if some cave. my hallway was like hills. i felt myself walking up and down the hills... it was very SCARY because everything is SO REAL like a whole other reality right before your eyes but you know somewhere in your mind that what your seeing is not real but you cant believe that. Its easy to tell yourself when your sober that you will go with the flow but when you see things that are not normal or things your not used to its very hard to act okay and not freak out on shrooms. Everything was rainbow colors and left tracers. I would walk and feel unlike myself, touch my face and not even feel my nose. I wanted to cut my long beautiful hair off, and take out all my piercings. At one point I wanted to call 911 and kept thinking "death isnt no big deal." and that when we die we just are nothing and that is not beliefs whatsoever! I believe in my God and i believe in afterlife in Heaven. Ever since my trip I don't feel like myself at all. Its been a few months and what i thought was just anxiety has turned to my heart racing, feeling overwhelmed when im not even doing anything but just sitting down on the computer, i dont like being out in public, i feel apart from everyone else. I feel like a hermit really. Anyways to be honest, the end of my trip was awesome. I felt more in touch with my religion and my relationship. But the bottom truth I would never do it again. What may be an amazing or magical experience to some people, can be a horrible nightmare to others. Besides, a lot of people who enjoy shrooms dont eat as much as I ate either. But you cant tell people not to try something because your not going to not want to try it unless you know whats it like and experience it. But like this post states, if you have anxiety or mental problems or are a weak minded person DONT TRY SHROOMS just for own good. shrooms can change your life. for the better or for the worse. if anything, id stick to marijuana. even though Shrooms are organic they are a powerful drug. Everything is opposite. Your senses are all messed up and its hard to adjust to espcially since you HAVE to deal with it for 6 hours straight. Once you trip there is no coming back for that amount of time. You can tell yourself your going to be okay, but trust me... your screwed! Haha. If you have anxiety I highly suggest you stay away from this.
My Experience of Psil Mushrooms
I use to suffer depression and anxiety which has all but disappeared after trying mushrooms. My quality of life is much better.
I use to suffer depression and anxiety which has all but disappeared after trying mushrooms. My quality of life is much better.
Well i laugh at the people on here being anti shroom if you had one bad trip don't stress it and give it a bad name just because you thought it was something like weed or being drunk when you first tried it. I tried them 14 times already and only had 2 bad trips i do them once every other 6-9months I work I go to school...I have anxiety so does 99.9% of the population if you do not want anxiety no pills or benzos will cure that except the MDMA ONLY pill that will cure it....these special species of fungi have showed me amazing things and it is not a drug it grows out of the ground i do not consider that a drug..everything man made is a drug and really horrible and dangerous to...LSD-(Man made)..Alcohol=(Man Made)...Cigarettes (man made) the ones with tar and rat poison and fiber glass. All in all this is a wonderful experience for anybody and all you propaganda botards can stick it.
I think the problem with a lot of what I am seeing here in regards to 'anxiety' and 'panic attacks' is that many who at least say they suffer from either of these conditions, whether according to 'professional' diagnosis or not maintain the typical Western clinical view of these condtions, as if they were actual physical or physiological things no less a part of themselves as their liver; and cling to their own- or someone else's name for a description of a thing that is no more than a 'state' of mind, or the way they are thinking or responding psychologically to a physiological event, which is why most of Western psychology is nonsense, because it is based on treatment of reactions and responses, not physical or physiological events:
80-90% of anxiety and 'panic' is exactly that-It is perceptual, not actual, and consists soley of 'awareness'. While low doses of PC (on the order of 1-3gms) may be found helpful, believing that taking something that heightens awareness and enhances perception to remove anxiety and panic, without taking responsibility for one's own reactions and responses is silly and dangerous. Psilocybin is not a pharmaceutical and its use has nothing at all to do with treating psychosomatic symptoms.
One is better-off first getting a grip on their own reactions and responses to things; next to change whatever may environmentally or physiologically influences the bio-chemistry that sets up the condition to begin with. We are energy first, then water, then matter (which includes our bio-chemistry), and all of anxiety and panic has as much to do with disruption or blockage of energy than anything-which is what the use of psilocybin is all about; perceiving and becoming aware of the energy we and the World around us is composed of, how it flows, and how to use our perception and awareness to manipulate it to our benefit.
As for some of the more typically negative views of psilocybin use, I would advise those persons [a] to go do a little research remind you that psilocybin have been around far longer than any of use, have been used for thousands of years, and a far less deadlier, addictive or debilitating than mostly all medications or treatments for any ailment prescribed by modern medicine. More people have lost their sanity,psychic freedom and lives to antidepressants and anti-psychotics than anyone has to the responsible and proper use of psilocybin.
80-90% of anxiety and 'panic' is exactly that-It is perceptual, not actual, and consists soley of 'awareness'. While low doses of PC (on the order of 1-3gms) may be found helpful, believing that taking something that heightens awareness and enhances perception to remove anxiety and panic, without taking responsibility for one's own reactions and responses is silly and dangerous. Psilocybin is not a pharmaceutical and its use has nothing at all to do with treating psychosomatic symptoms.
One is better-off first getting a grip on their own reactions and responses to things; next to change whatever may environmentally or physiologically influences the bio-chemistry that sets up the condition to begin with. We are energy first, then water, then matter (which includes our bio-chemistry), and all of anxiety and panic has as much to do with disruption or blockage of energy than anything-which is what the use of psilocybin is all about; perceiving and becoming aware of the energy we and the World around us is composed of, how it flows, and how to use our perception and awareness to manipulate it to our benefit.
As for some of the more typically negative views of psilocybin use, I would advise those persons [a] to go do a little research remind you that psilocybin have been around far longer than any of use, have been used for thousands of years, and a far less deadlier, addictive or debilitating than mostly all medications or treatments for any ailment prescribed by modern medicine. More people have lost their sanity,psychic freedom and lives to antidepressants and anti-psychotics than anyone has to the responsible and proper use of psilocybin.
i love shrooms
Cocaine is a schedule 2 drug. Not a schedule 1.
I have anxiety, hardcore, everpresent, occasionally paralyzing anxiety. Mushrooms do wonders. Really, absolute wonders. I've never had a bad trip, never really a bad moment (besides a little nausea depending on what food I'd eaten before). Now, I trip different from other people, my trips are far milder than anyone else. I've taken 5x the dosage of mushrooms that put my girlfriend into a nightmarish experience for hours (her first experience with shrooms, oddly enough she very much liked them and enjoys bad trips) and still gotten little more than a light show. There is a feeling of almost pure contentment that comes. A peace. Not like the peace of pot, which is still wonderful (and far better than the peace of alcohol), but that's more about disregarding of worries. Mushrooms are like the eradication of worries. I just sit/lay contented and search for patterns in all I see. I enjoy the gentle breathing of the environment which is probably the most extreme visual I've ever managed to get. So, if you have chronic anxiety, my anecdotal experience (and recent studies agree) is that it helps. It helps a lot. Both during the trip and after. Now, everyone is different, especially with regards about how you experience hallucinogenics, so don't take this as a 100% guarantee you will have a good time and an endorsement of taking a huge dose. But I do recommend trying it, in a low dose, in a safe place, with people you trust.
Just wanted to provide a counterpoint to those who say not to do shrooms if you have anxiety. I've ended up staying in the shower until the water ran cold, multiple times, due to simply being paralyzed in fear about continuing my day due to all the horrible things I could imagine happening. I've logged dozens of calls to people I knew who were traveling simply because I was suddenly convinced they were in a car wreck or plane crash. I sometimes lie in bed utterly still because the only alternative would be tearing at my own skin to try to relieve a little of the pressure I feel boiling beneath. I have intense anxiety, and have had a few panic attacks, and nothing but positive experiences.
Just wanted to provide a counterpoint to those who say not to do shrooms if you have anxiety. I've ended up staying in the shower until the water ran cold, multiple times, due to simply being paralyzed in fear about continuing my day due to all the horrible things I could imagine happening. I've logged dozens of calls to people I knew who were traveling simply because I was suddenly convinced they were in a car wreck or plane crash. I sometimes lie in bed utterly still because the only alternative would be tearing at my own skin to try to relieve a little of the pressure I feel boiling beneath. I have intense anxiety, and have had a few panic attacks, and nothing but positive experiences.
EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN OPINION.... SHROOMS ARE HORRIBLE. I took them, had a horrible trip. At first everything was funny and happy. then i felt i was sinking in the couch, i felt my two homeboys moaning. I felt like i was in a spiritual world, i believed that was the real life, i went to the bathroom to be alone, then i was in extreme rage. i felt like killing someone. I was afraid for my life, i heard voices in my head, i tried praying to Jesus but i heard a voice saying "he cant help u." when i heard that i flipped. i literally call my parents. EVERYONE knows you dont call your parents when your really, really high. but i felt they were the only ones that could save me. LONG TERM EFFECTS: I feel like i live in my thoughts, that the "spiritual world" was really life and its not thats just my thoughts. I never had panic attacks until after the shrooms, i dont feel safe even around my close friends. It messed up my life. Its true, its whats on your mind and how you think that will determine the shroom trip. But i believe if there are hauting things like trauma, wounds, etc. in your life the shrooms will bring the back and hurt you. Shrooms are demonic, evil. DONT DO THEM
I took shrooms about 5 weeks ago, and not only did i have an intensely bad trip, but I have woken up every morning since with extreme, gut-wrenching anxiety. Not only have i never experienced anxiety like this before, but i haven't ecperienced any at all. I firmly believe that the shrooms induced the anxiety and because i had bad trip, the tiniest little emotion or onslaught of negative thoughts triggers the anxiety. I had taken shrooms twice before this and had fun, but like one of the other girls up top said, i could literally have shot myself it was so bad. never ***edited by moderator*** ** inappropriate posting** EVER will i eat them again. Ill stick to the buds
The truth about shrooms is that it can be one of the most amazing experiences of your life, one of the most terrible, or anywhere in between. Everything about your personality, emotions, environment, and general well-being can be a factor when taking it. I have taken shrooms three times. The first time was incredible, one of the best times of my life. The second time was fun but nothing special. Yesterday, was the third time and was one of the worst experiences of my life. I still fell somewhat anxious from it; however, I don't believe it will last more than a couple days. I feel that the only way I kept my sanity through the trip was through meditation. It's as if I battled nearly evil negative thoughts and emotions for hours.
For anyone who ever experiences a bad trip. If possible, Immediately go somewhere pleasant, with someone positive, with nothing to worry about (like getting caught, or people you are uncomfortable with.) Then focus on everything happy around you, and go with the flow, DO NOT try to control it. That's how I was able to go from a truly terrifying experience where I was scared for my life, and my mental wellness, to being ok. Although, I was in a fragile state which required that tactic the entire time.
I recommend never doing shrooms, it may be amazing, but bad trips aren't worth it if you're prone to being anxious or paranoid.
For anyone who ever experiences a bad trip. If possible, Immediately go somewhere pleasant, with someone positive, with nothing to worry about (like getting caught, or people you are uncomfortable with.) Then focus on everything happy around you, and go with the flow, DO NOT try to control it. That's how I was able to go from a truly terrifying experience where I was scared for my life, and my mental wellness, to being ok. Although, I was in a fragile state which required that tactic the entire time.
I recommend never doing shrooms, it may be amazing, but bad trips aren't worth it if you're prone to being anxious or paranoid.