Makes sense as long as it works, a lot of people are not prepared to trip balls anyway, even as part of a treatment. Ketamine (for the same purpose, which is increasingly a thing) has the same issue.
Makes sense as long as it works, a lot of people are not prepared to trip balls anyway, even as part of a treatment. Ketamine (for the same purpose, which is increasingly a thing) has the same issue.
agent_flounder@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Never done drugs but depression is fucking horrible and debilitating. If the price to pay for putting depression on hiatus for a year or two is tripping balls, sign me the fuck up right now. I swear the first second I am retired (and thus can’t get fired for drugs) I am investigating one of these types of treatments. But my understanding is micro dosing is generally the treatment? Idk.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fun fact, a lot of employers don’t test for mushrooms. If it’s a 5 panel test, they don’t test for it at all.
AzuleBlade@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fun fact, it’s legal to purchase spores and grow kits in the US, since they don’t contain any psilocybin.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve thought about trying to grow some, it doesn’t look hard, but just like all things that look easy there is likely a lot of underlying info I’d have to find or learn the hard way… and right now I’m trying to keep from being that guy who has a bunch of half-finished projects.
amio@kbin.social 1 year ago
I agree and have literally done that exact thing for that exact purpose... but not everyone does.
My point was just that having a drug that doesn't require tripping balls in a tightly controlled setting is a good idea. Not everyone is up for it (personality, circumstances) and any trip has risks, you need monitoring which takes trained manpower etc. - it's worth it while we have no other treatment, but it isn't very practical for a bunch of reasons.
Microdosing would be dependent on the chemical. This is supposedly a relatively small dose (or so someone else said, I have no idea about shrooms) but if the study is to be believed, fairly effective anyway.