SSRI/SNRI’s will inhibit the effectiveness of shrooms. You’d have to wean off the pharma drugs and give your brain some time to adjust before starting shrooms. This can be pretty bad and risky if your depression is quite strong, so it’s best to do it all under consolation with your doctor.

https://mushly.com/dosage-calculator.php

Dont take mushroom with SSRIs or any other antidepressants, you need to wait 2 weeks or you might have side effects.

Yeah I know some of those people too, mushrooms can give you a really nice warming feeling of happiness, but as you said it has to be with people you trust. I went yesterday to the woods for a long walk while on mushrooms and I felt amazing, really connecting with nature and my feelings. I tried them alone the first time as I didnt know any friend who used them, but I spent 2 months looking for data to know if they were safe, what dosage, effects, etc.

Glad someone said it. A lot of people with mental illness do not benefit from mushrooms or other psychedelics and they only make their conditions far worse. I do have psychosis and mushrooms run a very high risk of causing me to develop full blown schizophrenia if I take them. They could potentially do permanent damage to a person if they aren’t careful. People often adopt the “it’s natural, therefore it is less harmful than the pills big pharma tries to use on us.” But just because something is safe for one person, doesn’t mean it is safe for another. I don’t think they are nearly as harmless as their enthusiasts claim. I’ve seen too many people fall into really dark patterns(and worse) due to them, despite claiming they are “more wise” and “their mind has been opened” thanks to psychedelics.

That’s why I always say to research and not just trust me, for many people it can be a miracle cure, for others it can have negative effects, I also had some bad trips until I controlled more the dosage. All I can say is that I recommend researching about them. I understand your point and I’m sorry they had a negative impact on you, but if it weren’t for posts like these that spiked my curiosity for psychedelics, I wouldn’t have discovered the medicine that cured my depression.

Lets hope that these obscure bans on drugs get repealed for research and we start making actual science and medicine with these, because today’s capitalist rather have us addicted to opioids and sell us snake oil, and banning our cures, because that’s profitable.

Having another chain around my neck for my employer to yank should I misbehave is something I refuse to do again. I refuse to take on a financial burden that emotionally numbs me so I will be a more effective cog in the great machine. Make no mistake, I am suffering greatly but it has always been due to my circumstances. I don’t need chemical correction. I need community, companionship, affection, purpose, and meaning. I need love. I need a life worth living.

I want to feel my feelings now. Even if it hurts. I just want it to hurt less a bit.

Aww thanks!