re: Micro Dosing Mushrooms

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You just order this stuff from this schedule 35 site and they mail it to your house?

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Yes,I've placed 4 order since the end of June and my items were shipped via US Mail to my home address.

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I use PF Tek method, learning more about agar.

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I’ll get there I’m sure. Going simple/stupid these first few clutches.

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I’ll get there I’m sure. Going simple/stupid these first few clutches

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All in one grow bags are good way to start out. I’ll be honest, I’m still going simple for as long long as I’ve been doing it. I’m honestly at best average at growing but I get lazy with it at times

Just as you would with people making ignorant claims about weight training and diet, I would encourage you to do the research and read up on the literature. Maybe this is like Creatine for the brain?

I don’t want to die on the microdose hill, though, because I think there are much, much more important uses of these substances (combatting treatment resistant depression, assisting with overcoming PTSD, battling addiction, etc…) that can take place in a therapeutic context, and the promotion of micro dosing can muddy the waters and detract from that much more important campaign.

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This shite has nothing to do with health or fitness. And it’s fricking weird as frick imo

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Today I learned that mental health has nothing to do with either health or fitness.

lsu777

For someone who pushes a lot of bro science and constantly talks about how all the doctors are uneducated and stuck in the past, I'm surprised you'd say this. I can only go off my little bubble of myself, friends, and some family but it's made a huge difference to us.

If I can go from drinking 1/5 of whiskey a night and popping xanax every day to eating a small amount of mushrooms twice a week and a large amount once a month, and it makes me feel way better than I ever have, I'll take it. You don't get high on microdose fwiw. Neighbor's mom lives on her own, husband died a few years ago and she'd been battling depression. He saw how much mushrooms helped his wife, he hardly ever takes them as he didn't feel the need. He got his mom on this and she takes a microdose 3 times a week and she got off all depression medication and is one of the happiest people they know. She got back out and visits friends, helps in the community, all things she wanted to do but couldn't due to her depression barely allowing her to get out of bed.

I can go on for awhile with others I know. It's only my bubble though. I'm not wanting to force people on them, but it can be an option, unfortunately it takes risk to do it, that's what sucks. I've seen first hand the amount of lives it has changed. It isn't going to be for everybody. There's no need to even microdose more than 3 times a week, if someone is doing it everyday they are throwing money down the toilet.

ETA: I have quite a few people in the north Louisiana area growing psilocybe mushrooms out of their closets Again, you need to have the real shite for a microdose, those kind you buy online that are slow release I just don't know how that can help you much at all, I could be wrong. Get some spores, start off with all in one grow bags, be extra clean, research it, wear gloves, and grow it. You will fail a few times at the start. Once you get going good and learn, it's cheap as frick.

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Shouldn’t you treat the underlying issue instead of just covering it up with drugs

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Many people after 1 good trip feel better about themselves and never touch it again. Good thing about a trip, if you have someone there helping you through it, you can get down to the root of a problem that could stem from childhood. Basically it's been said it's almost like doing MDMR therapy. The cool thing about mushrooms, it's not a bandaid, it literally "rewires" your brain and "cleanses" your mind. There are way more scientific terms John Hopkins has said about what it does. But it allows you to dig deeper than normal and accept what has happened in the past.

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Shouldn’t you treat the underlying issue instead of just covering it up with drugs? Maybe y’all have tried that I dunno, just seems weird as frick and similar to an alcoholic using it, someone using MJ to treat mental issues and krantom. Seems to me going hmafter what is causing the trauma or the depression would be the first step

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A lot of the therapeutic work done with psychoactive substances is aimed at just that: addressing the underlying issues/trauma, especially with regards to PTSD, instead of just continuously taking benzos for anxiety.

That being said, microdosing is NOT the same thing as therapeutic uses of psychedelics in a clinical setting to address mental health issues, but a lot of people who are currently medicating through pharmaceuticals (whether for ADD, depression, or anxiety) have found that microdosing is a less “intrusive” option. It’s also 10x less likely to lead to addiction or habituation than many of the pharmaceutical treatments.

Try macro dosing, it’s more fun.

I'll make one last post about it. In real life, the word microdose is not something I ever say. I only type it out on here but it's irrelevant. I just break a piece off and eat it. I may go months and months without eating "a lot"
or "tripping" and then I may do it once a month. Hard to type with a straight face b/c of my screen name, but don't take it too seriously.

The sole purpose of them is to not take stupid stuff too seriously and just enjoy what you got. If you obsess about some weird "microdose" schedule than you are doing it wrong. Have fun with it, enjoy the small perks it gives, enjoy any tripping you may or may not do, and leave it at that. It opens you up to understand how you can mentally enjoy your life and family in times of strict schedules, work load, monotouny, etc. I personally have enough for wife and I to do a big dose end of October and then I'll be out of mushrooms until probably spring time. I've been lazy, same thing happened last year. I'm all good without it, but yea it's fun to take and be on, and it makes shite funny, and I enjoy what a "trip" can bring. Trips don't give you what you want, only what you need.

As far as microdose, hopefully it helps, if not, then stop taking it. If it does, you don't have to be like my wife and weigh and put in capsules, just bite a piece off once or twice a week and enjoy. No hallucinations, just a damn good mood and focus.

And now I laugh at all my long post about it while telling ya'll not to obsess about it.

ETA: It did help with my ptsd, I was able to break down at the root of what was causing me pain. I finally got to the point where I missed being sober instead of hiding from sobriety. That was the big help for me. It helped me change my life, opened me up. The mushrooms themselves don't fix anything, they just help you figure out how to fix you.