So I took the plunge and tried shrooms. It was the lightest and happiest I’ve felt in forever. It’s been 2 days since, and I can say something happened to my brain to make my ocd anxiety die down a lot. I’m able to address my thoughts or simply ignore them rather than worry a lot. Yes I still have moments where I get extreme anxiety and I give into my compulsions. But it alleviated a lot of my symptoms. Even if it’s temporary, I have hope when it comes to medicine and shrooms being used for things like depression and OCD. I’m going to try it again soon. Give my brain a rest and see how the next few weeks go down. I have an appointment scheduled for IV ketamine. The doctor told me a lot about how people come in to treat OCD and leave feeling almost cured. Hope that’s my experience too. If anyone has any questions, I’m here.

I did it with my friend and my cousin and we all had fairly good trips! I highly recommend. I know some people will try and scare you but it’s not scary at all. And if scary thoughts come up, face them head on and embrace it 💕💕💕 i put up on my favorite music and did some art

Oh I took myself off of SSRI’s just to do this lol.

Stupid question but why can’t you take shrooms when you’re on anti depressants?

@NoRuminations I saw told mixing them can cause serotonin syndrome but maybe I’m mistaken?

I took the standard therapeutic dose of 3.5!!! But I think I’m going to try 5 the next time. At 3.5 I could function but I knew better than to do things like drive and stuff. I just sat down and blasted my favorite music and made some art lol. After the peak, you function normally, but with a little more pep to your step lol.

@U can get through this! Oh okay, makes sense! Do you plan on taking it as a weekly thing? And did it help your intrusive thoughts not feel as intrusive?

@NoRuminations Not a weekly thing no! I was told to wait about 2 weeks in between each trip but even then I don’t think I’ll do it that much. I’m gonna experiment a bit tho with diff strains and doses. It helped me face my intrusive thoughts tbh. The thoughts would try and bother me and my response was “I don’t care.” Cause normally I care far too much. I was able to shrug them off. I can say the intrusive thoughts have died down a bit in terms of frequency. I just need to stop ruminating.

@U can get through this! Oooh that makes sense. I need to do some more research on it! Do you recommend any articles or anything to read on it? And if you don’t mind me asking, what kind of intrusive thoughts do you have with your ocd?

I asked a lot of my friends/asked on Instagram. Turns out a lot of my friends do it

@U can get through this! Oh ok i just dont know where or how id be able to unless it’s like a reputable legal places and they dont have any in the us that I know of lol

@Coul.C Ugh they don’t. I know in Canada they do but idk how close you are to there. I’m lucky that my friends who some trustworthy people

@U can get through this! Yeah you are! And sadly too far from Canada but please do update on the shrooms seems interesting

@Coul.C Will do! Thank u for the interest. I’ll also probably use this post to update on ketamine as well