Posted on 04/16/2021 9:22:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
better be Pb-Free RoHs..................
A bazillion studies on magic mushrooms but zero studies on covid vaccines.
Easier to get volunteers..................................
Significant exercise is not a viable option to many moderately or severely depressed patients. Clinical depression is not the mild mood disturbance that nearly everyone experiences from time to time. It is a different animal and precludes many normal activities.
The early Jesuits had a snail Ceremony. They have found evidence of this in their ancient frescos. To filter the roughness on the stomach they would let snails eat the Amanita Muscaria and then eat the snails.
I often wonder if this is why the medieval paintings of knights battling snails was so popular.
Those are the Blue tops? Best of the best aside from Amanita.
Had a friend who watched a motocross race while on Jimson Weed. He was in a jail cell, the cyclists were Hot Wheels size and they went up the walls, across the ceiling...
Ya'll may have seen this before but it's funny each and every time: "Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?"
A fool in paradise asks: "Did they force those on antidepressants to listen to The Flaming Lips and Phish as well?"
Phish? They may wish. Non-pharmaceutical treatment of depression requires Boston's debut album. But if you find yourself there inadvertent or vertent let me suggest Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like an Eagle" or The Alan Parson's Project "I Robot".
Mr.K posted "The medicinal qualities of some of these things were well-known but the government couldn’t figure out how to Tax it.
On Saturday at Bishop's Gate. Don't be late.
Happy and 10 ft tall. 😆
I could use some shrooms right now. No amount of exercise can help serious depression and suicidal thoughts.
True, but exercise helps some. And shrooms are turning out to be the best treatment for severe PTSD. Many ongoing clinical trials.
People who have never been diagnosed as severely clinically depressed have no idea what it is like. It’s insidious. It’s no joke. For many, suicide is the only viable option seen. Shrooms can help get rid of it.
Shrooms currently illegal to sell and own. But you can legally buy spores, “for experimental purposes.” Tons of folks out there growing their own, and many veterans group quietly grow and promote them for buddies with severe PTSD. Do a web search for “magic mushroom spores,” read up on it...
Thank you so much for your suggestions.
You are correct. People who have never suffered from clinical depression just cannot understand just how cruel and insidious this illness is.
No one “chooses” to suffer Depression.
Even psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize in depression often don’t understand it. What it’s like.
For me, Closest to understanding it is an analogy:
Everyone has a certain, “default” level of innate happinesses. Where they normally are. They can get quite happy, or very sad, but it tends to self-correct and swing back to that normal level. Up, down, back and forth, above and below that average line for them. Throughout their life.
If they are lucky, and work hard, they can slowly increase the happiness baseline.
But for chronic depressives, it doesn’t self correct. It can tend sad, and not swing back. Partially back, but then the baseline is lower. And it can slowly, very slowly, trend lower over time. The baseline. It doesn’t self correct.
Until one day it is so low, you can’t pull it back up, no matter what you do. A little higher, but it sinks lower again, soon. Lower and lower. Until it’s like you’re always walking through deep mud, mentally. The self correction is broken. By the time you realize something’s wrong, it’s too late to get out of it...so it seems.
Drugs can help, but they are very different for different people. Some work, most don’t. Trial and error, which...takes energy amd effort. That you don’t have.
You don’t eat, or over eat, and don’t care. People stop bathing, stop combing their hair, and don’t care. We know we should, but it’s just so damn hard and takes so much effort. You don’t want to be around anyone, but desperately want company too. Like you’re outside a room, looking in through a window at the happy people. Wanting to be one, but how? Exercise helps, but it’s so much effort just starting. You can sit on the couch all day in the dark, trying to get up the energy to just get up and walk outside...
It’s awful.
You summed it up perfectly. You and I are exactly alike.
I’m at the point where I don’t care about anything. If it weren’t for my elderly mother and my beloved doggies and Maine Coon Cat, I would live in bed.
I’m currently very interested in the case of Christine Chubbock, a former Reporter for a Sarasota, Florida TV station.In 1974, she made history by shooting herself in the head on the air.
Chubbock suffered from severe Clinical Depression for years and therapy and meds didn’t help. When I read and watch videos about Chubbock, I feel such an empathy with her. I understand her desperation.
My older sister also suffers from Clinical Depression. She stayed in bed for several years and still struggles mightily to keep going.
My sister and I suffered from trauma when we were growing up. I believe our Depression battles are a combination of hereditary issues and our messed up experiences.
I thank you for your thoughtful, insightful post. You perfectly described the Hell that depression sufferers endure.
I sent you mail theough here... :)
Did you compose that AFTER you took some?
PS i agree with the Alan Parsons
I would go with the “Pyramid” album, though.
Yeah, I finally noticed it, lol. :)
Not since around 1979. I was going to mention the Sgt. Pepper's album and there you were. Freegards to Mr. H and Henry the Horse dancing the waltz.
In the face of remorseless tyrants who use language as a weapon of subjugation I keep a light heart and use the one thing they can not tolerate: Ridicule. Best to you.
Ten feet tall and bullet-proof!..................
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