Giving psilocybin, the psychedelic in magic mushrooms, to rats made them more optimistic in the longer term, suggesting that the psychedelic substance could have great potential in treating a core symptom of depression in humans.

[u/mvea]

https://newatlas.com/medical/psilocybin-optimism-depression/

[u/mljsimone]

I used to grow my own mushrooms. after some microdosing and two 3.5~4g trips, my depression episodes were gone. I also stopped drinking.

It is crazy good!

[u/betajones → u/mljsimone]

How long have you gone without the shroomies? From my experience, after 5 or 6 months, you would need to re dose yourself for that benefit to continue. Almost like replacing 1 substance for another. Getting people to actually think this can be a cure-all will leave a lot of people disappointed in themselves when they don't have the same journey. It's just not actual magic.