Whilst it might not be for everyone, taking Psylocibin in the form of magic mushrooms really has helped me shift the seemingly never ending dark clouds of depression. Its not a magic cure (wahey) but lots of studies are being made on it. I find it works anyway.
Mate, I have been VERY interested in the study of Psylocibin (sp?) .. my mushroom-head (
) pals who suffer bad anxiety/depression/PTSD talk about it a lot and recommend it to me all the time.
I was hearing 'they' were looking for patients with depressive diagnoses/anxiety/everything else under the sun associated to volunteer to take it and be observed. I am hearing it is this miracle drug that has got a lot of people out of extremely dark places and back on their feet. I would be very interested in using this.
I poisoned my body with every SSRI/SNRI blah blah under the sun for over a decade and got sick of it. Venlafaxine and back in the day 'Seroxat' have to be my worst experiences I was gurning in my sleep .. waking up feeling like I'd been hit with a bag o bricks over the head ... waiting to feel clearer in the head with lifestyle changes, etc, I wasn't making progress I was just too shy, to be honest with people around me to say that its just not getting better.
I also had two seizures around this time related to the venlafaxine I was taking .. it reacted badly by the sounds to another painkiller I was prescribed and over the course of the day I developed 'serotonin syndrome' and remember nothing other than waking up in the back of an ambulance, I couldn't remember my name, date of birth, where I lived ... it was terrifying
So sorry to blabber, safe to say I do not trust most modern anti-depressants/treatments and have been med-free for years, but suffering badly otherwise as I have stated over the days we've been discussing things.
I would be very interested to try psilocybin and if there is a way I could, I would. I didn't think anything like that would be authorised for use at the moment ..
My friends who like mushrooms etc now and then .. they will have it in their tea
Don't know much about that world but they say that for days on end, even weeks, after a night with the tea .. their depression goes, clear head on mornings and they get themselves back into gear without a cloudy mind and everything else that comes with it