[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Severian

Hey, I did that too. Same year, no less. Well, mostly the same year. My mushroom fuckery started sooner than 2003, but that year I spent at least ½ of my days tripping to some degree.

My concern is that that "come down" effect would be exponential rather than incremental, leading to an eventual full blown seratonin depletion even if someone were only taking a negligible ¼ gram a day.

what come down effect??

I'm not saying that would definitely happen, but it's possible enough to make someone like me, with ongoing anxiety and depression issues, wary.

and maybe you're just letting your anxiety get to you? your friend is doing it because she feels it is balancing her neurochemistry and she might be absolutely right. in that regard you might come out with less anxiety or depression from a neurochemical perspective.

And mushrooms are only mild in small doses. As you know (don't tell me you don't), once you get up to the neighborhood of 5 or more grams,

and small doses is precisely what we have been discussing que no?

you're very likely to have a mindfuck blowout that's just as intense as any effect LSD may produce.

sure but it metabolizes much more quickly and doesn't linger in the system like LSD or others. shit i had a very frightening two week trip from datura. LSD overdose can last weeks. mushrooms? a day, tops, no matter what the dose, it will metabolize out.

Not that I'be ever had any mushroom experience that can compare with the times I really overloaded on acid.

me neither but im not gonna lie i seen some people go off on the deep end for a few hours from eating too much. however even then, i don't think their trip was "bad" like a bad acid trip so much as powerful and not what they were prepared or ready for. vision quest status.

I don't necessarily agree that mushrooms are harmless. Depends on what you consider harmful.

there have literally been studies, on indians who ate them daily for a year or more, and long term studies on indians who had been eating them for years, zero structural brain damage as happens with say meth or even alcohol. again, harmless.

They are essentially poison.

come on bro you are smarter than that. this is a high school myth. psilocybin is NOT a poison and there are no poisons found in psilocybin mushrooms. psychoactive yes. toxic no. the LD50 numbers are practically impossible to ingest.

They may not have the scary long term effects that have been reported with LSD, but they don't do any favors for your liver or your digestion, and like all dopamine/seratonin floodgate openers, they can cause a rebounding effect manifesting in MDD symptoms.

nope, again, there have been scientific studies. remember psilocybin was the first studied hallucinogen. indeed many studies as well as anecdotal reports show that most people have the opposite effect, they come out of it feeling clear headed and positive, optimistic about their lives and place in the world.

I've seen some very happy go lucky mitherfuckers get extremely depressed in the wee hours after a night of hard tripping.

maybe they weren't happy with or ready for their visions? the thing about mushrooms is they are NOT for fun, its not a recreational experience. folks who abuse it as such will get burned. if ones are not ready to explore themselves at the deepest existential level then they should NOT eat mushrooms. mushrooms are SPIRITUAL.

its not a party drug. folks should proceed with caution, the subconscious mind when revealed can have serious psychological impact.