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FRACTALife
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Medicine
#567075 - 06/24/11 03:22 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I am one of the few Shroomery/growery members who has been blessed with the curse of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Psychedelic drugs have been shown to be very beneficial to people with OCD. This was discovered back in the sixties and was also reaffirmed by a recent study by John Hopkins where people with OCD were given psilocybin. Whether it has to do with the way holotropic drugs affect the neurotransmitters or it is due to the psychologically therapeutic psychedelic trip or possibly a combination of two is not known for sure.
But it has been determined that a psychedelic trip weekly, monthly, or every few months is just as, if not more, effective then SSRIs in the treatment of OCD.
In my personal experience this definitely holds true. I have tried SSRIs, Seroquel, and Xanax. Nothing has helped me more than a few grams of psilocybin mushrooms or a couple hits of LSD every couple months.
A few months after a psychedelic trip I notice my OCD becoming more of a problem and interfering with my life and I know it is time to take another dose of the world's best medicine.
One interesting thing that I noticed was that a couple months ago, about the time I'd expect to see some OCD symptoms intensifying, I had what one might call a "flashback" after smoking some cannabis, it basically felt like a mushroom trip, and that seemed to take the place of a trip actually induced by a serotonergic psychedelic and gave me another couple months of freedom from OCD.
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FRACTALife
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Weekly trips was a bit of an over-exaggeration. It's more like every other week for at the most, but really it's about how long OCD sufferers feel relieved from one dose. It can last as short as a week or as long as a year. That is what I meant.
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FRACTALife
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I feel I should specify even more.
My time frame about dosing weekly, monthly, or every few months comes from the recent studies on OCD and psychedelic drugs which show that patients found the relief from OCD lasting anywhere from a few days to a few months.
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FRACTALife
Rust Fuckin' Cohle
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FRACTALife
Rust Fuckin' Cohle
Registered: 03/19/10
Posts: 6,838
Loc: Carcosa
Last seen: 7 years, 10 months
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Re: Medicine [Re: RasJeph]
#567188 - 06/24/11 11:29 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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OCD isn't exactly like they portray it on shows like Monk or what not. It can be sort of like that, but it varies a lot from person to person. There are a lot of more intense stuff than cleaning, but that can be one of the compulsions, there can also be lots of intrusive thoughts, guilt, and of course- obsessing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder
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FRACTALife
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Re: Medicine [Re: mhbound]
#567292 - 06/25/11 01:57 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's a good way to put it!
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Edited by FRACTALife (06/25/11 01:57 PM)
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