Eating Magic Mushrooms is Playing Russian Roulette with your brain

My best friend ate mushrooms on 6 different occasions. The first 5 were fine. The 6th time he had a very bad trip. After that he has not been the same. That was 2 years ago. He can't think clearly and is clinically depressed. I also work with a guy who has brain damage because of taking magic mushrooms. He has tried electra-shock therapy, psycho-therapy, and anti-depressants and nothing has helped him.

 

Psychedelics can sometimes trigger underlying mental illnesses, but I have never seen any research to suggest that it can cause it.

 

Sounds to me like your friend had more problems then just eating a few mushrooms.

 

You say that "Psychedelics can trigger underlying mental illness." That just proves that it can cause permanent changes in the brain chemistry. And this person had no mental illness or depression what so ever before he ate mushrooms. NONE!

 

Let me guess your the same type of person that thinks mdma eats worm holes in your brain. Underlying problems means that there was problems before the psychedelics.

 

Drugs, any drugs including alcohol, can trigger mental illness in someone predisposed to it. that doesn't mean drugs cause mental illness or everyone would be batshit crazy.

 

This drug can cause mental illness. To get high on mushrooms is to alter your brain chemistry dramatically. What the mushrooms do is they stimulate certain parts of the brain and suppress others. So why is it so hard for people to believe that one of the changes in your brain that the drug made became permanent? This is what happened to these 2 people.

Look, I hate seeing my friend depressed like he is. He was the happiest person his whole entire life before this happened. And as I said, the guy I work with told me that it was the mushrooms that triggered his clinical depression too. So this is not as rare of a problem as people think. I just came to this sight to warn people. Because I care about people. Why else would I take the time. I am not the "Mushroom Police."

I won't be back to this web site. I don't have time. Good luck to you all.

 

Drinking coffee stimulates part of the brain, but people don't turn crazy after their first Starbucks.

By underlying mental illness, Imean that it will show itself at some point, but sometimes drugs can bring it out a little earlier (for example, there is some research which suggests that cannabis can trigger schizophrenia early.

 

There have been calls for medical investigation of the use of synthetic and mushroom-derived psilocybin for the development of improved treatments of various mental conditions, including chronic cluster headaches ,following numerous anecdotal reports of benefits. There are also studies which include reports of psilocybin mushrooms sending both obsessive-compulsive disorders ("OCD") and OCD-related clinical depression (both being widespread and debilitating mental health conditions) into complete remission immediately and for up to months at a time, compared to current medications which often have both limited efficacy and frequent undesirable side-effects.

 

2 things: #1 - I wondered if the "best friend" and "guy" she worked with are real or imagined. When we are young many of us had imaginary (best) friends.

#2 - Is electra-shock therapy the same as electrIC shock therapy?

^^^That is MOST interesting and totally made me glad I came and read this.

 

Friend saw people like OP for what they are, and now life gets him down.

I'd be depressed too if I had friends like OP and was treated for psychedelic use by way of electrical shocks.

 

Your welcome Lynn

 

Because they would be the first two cases of permanent brain damage from psilocybin mushrooms in the many thousands of years that man has been using them.

 

if your brain has been exposed to psilocybin, it will look like this..

 

See, the thing is she's another victim of the prohibition hysteria/propaganda in this country since it was colonized.

Much of it is a continuation of Calvinist and fundamentalist thinking. It really began to pick up steam with the alcohol prohibition movement. When that was overturned they then focused on marijuana with a vengence. You know, only black people use it and rape white women, that kinda nonsense.
Throughout our history when you take a look at how a particular substance is stigmatized, its always in the most unscientific way, usually demonizing a group of people and using those people as justification for why X has to be made illegal.

And people that buy into that rarely know much about the facts of these substances. That LSD was more effective at treating alcoholism than AA has ever been. That, like Nox said, people have been using mushrooms and cactus for thousands of years and there is zero evidence that it is harmful when used properly. (like most drugs) That, not only what Iron said above but that there has finally been govt sanctioned research going on with mushrooms and mdma that has had tremendously positive results working with terminal illness/end of life issues, chronic and unresponsive ptsd in war vets and public service first responders, cluster headaches, etc.

That said, I wouldn't necessarily call for free and copious amounts of drugs for all. In the current culture of prohibition and demonization, there is little to no proper education about drugs, which contributes greatly to the abuse of them and directly causes some of the tragedies we read about occasionally. Which is just more fuel for the fire for people like Lisa the troll.

That would be hilarious if it wasn't quite possible that that is exactly what happened to her friend. He dabbles in shrooms a bit, then has one of those serious trips where a whole bunch of bullshit gets laid out before him. Not being able to accept or work through those kind of revelations and face them head on can really screw with one's self-image.

 

Man, I usually agree with you on these type of topics, but this time you're just plain wrong.

Black people use cocaine, that's why they are crazy and rape white women.

Mexicans smoke marijuana, that's why they are all lazy and can't be trusted.

The Chinese smoke opium, that's why they seem so laid back but actually are very nefarious and always plotting evil.

Next time please check your facts before posting. :toetap05:

 

As usual, I bow to your superior experience and knowledge. :gnorsi:

Black, mexican, chinese... they're all the same... dope fiends and criminals.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-reiman/marijuana-prohibition-anniversary_b_1923370.html

 

Lack of respect for ones self and the substance.
This is one aspect that people often forget or just don't give the respect it is due.

Psychedelics can facilitate some of the most brutal, unforgiving, honest, relentless, accusatory, self-questioning and self-deprecating states of consciousness possible.

BUT, for those who stand up to gazing into the mirror will discover that it is all presented from a place of sincerity with love, forgiveness and total acceptance and that is really what you are in need of giving to yourself.

For some people that is a revelatory and eye-opening, life changing spiritual rebirth.:sunny:

For others it can be a descent into the bowels of the most insidious Hell ever conceived because all it's torments are yours and yours alone.:devil:

Real personal growth fucking hurts and is uncomfortable most of the time.
People don't acknowledge or respect that enough.

This balancing act becomes a mute point once you have the "broke on through to the other side" psychedelic awakening and see that it is all experience and it is all for good and for forward progression.

All things can be learned from and used for growth.:2thumbsup:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xauk4l_Hg"]Mr. Hand - YouTube