Make our brains FOSS! Why can’t I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Psilocybin is basically an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drug. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in keeping it illegal bcz they can’t make money off it. You can literally find psilocybin on cow poo.

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      14 hours ago

      Psilocybin is basically an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drug.

      Except that it’s totally not either of those things. In fact, it can sometimes cause panic attacks if taken ill advisedly.

      Psilocybin and other psychedelics reveal to us a lot of the inner workings of our minds. That can help people to correct unhealthy thinking when they are willing to do the work. That can lead to long term reduction of anxiety and depression, but only through addressing root causes.

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        14 hours ago

        only through addressing root causes.

        Lol, I’m not doing that! But good info…

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          9 hours ago

          From the article you linked.

          researchers report that the substantial antidepressant effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, given with supportive psychotherapy, may last at least a year for some patients.

          So, essentially what I said. There is a difference between an anti-anxiety or anti-depressive drug and a drug that’s useful in therapy to treat anxiety or depression.

          Anti-depressive and anti-anxiety drugs function on their own, but only so long as the drug is active in your system. Psychedelics allow self reflection to enhance traditionally non-drug therapies. They can even lead to the exact opposite results when used in an improper mind set or setting.

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          Still - take with care. Lost one friend to psilos & Lsd (he couldn’t adjust to reality anymore), another one lost to alcohol and the last one for all the other mixed shit. Waiting for the fourth lost soul.

          Not advocating being sober - I‘m older than 40 and happy that weed is legal in Germany now and sometimes a smiley pill. I‘m just saying - take it with care.

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      14 hours ago

      unless you want to grow them yourself, then they require the most sterile environment

      in the wild tho? yeah cow shit will do :)

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        12 hours ago

        Not particularly sterile, just sanitary. Grain starter needs to be pasteurized, trich needs to be removed from bulk spawn.

        I know lemmy hates reddit but r/unclebens will get anyone on the road to growing their own scooby snax. (Legal in Colorado, check local codes and laws, no refunds under any circumstances, do not bitch to me if you get busted)

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          2 hours ago

          in most places it’s legal to buy and have the mycelium itself but it’s illegal to let it grow

          so many online shops that very clearly are not for scientists with a lil disclaimer somewhere saying “please do make drugs out of this, this is purely for looking at through a microscope for all the amateur mycologists :))))”