The magic mushroom is a naturally occurring type of psychedelic that people use for recreational or spiritual purposes.
In the United States, magic mushrooms are illegal. These include psilocybin and psilocin which are scheduled substances. This classification of the drug means that magic mushroom has no acceptable medical value and has a high potential for misuse.
However, scientific reports suggest that magic mushrooms can cure depression. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the ingredient psilocybin for use in drug trials for the treatment of resistant depression.
Many people choose to buy mushrooms off the street from a “friend-of-a-friend”; however, that is not a safe way to consume something as potent as psilocybin. You can buy mushrooms from the shroom kingdom and ensure quality and safety. Let us look at the benefits of using magic mushrooms for depression
Studies show that patients with resistance to antidepressants respond well to psilocybin. The results show that the brains of these patients are reset. Doctor Robin Carhart-Harris, who led one of the psilocybin studies, said that similar brain effects are found with electroconvulsive therapy.
Psilocybin may be giving people a temporary push they need to get out of their depression. Treatment-resistant depression occurs when none of the proven treatments relieves symptoms of depression, including:
Different medications
Different talk therapies
Changes in lifestyle
Alternative treatment
Research shows that after two doses of psilocybin, the relief lasted for five weeks. Separate studies have shown that a single dose of psilocybin can reduce anxiety and depression in cancer patients.
In contrast, many depressed patients need to take antidepressants every day and/or attend therapy every week to reap similar benefits. These forms of treatment can last for years.
According to Professor David Nutt of Imperial College London, their study has shown psilocybin to be safe and fast-acting, so if managed carefully they can be of value to these patients. In a study on magic mushrooms, all depressed patients showed improvement after one week.
The fast-acting nature of psilocybin mushrooms is attractive for depression because antidepressants and/or therapy can take weeks for patients to feel benefits. This can be difficult if you have severe symptoms of depression. Self-harm or suicidal thoughts require immediate treatment.
The fast-acting nature of psilocybin mushrooms for depression is attractive since antidepressant medication and/or therapy can take weeks before patients feel benefits. This can prove problematic if your depressive symptoms are severe. Self-harming behaviour or suicidal thoughts call for immediate treatment.
Magic mushrooms help depressed patients reconnect with their emotions, researchers say. They compare this effect to antidepressants, which reduce emotions and ease depression.
Many patients who use antidepressants say that they help reduce low moods, but they also reduce positive mood. It can make you feel numb or flat.
Psilocybin offers benefits to patients by increasing emotional processing. After experiencing psilocybin, patients said they were more willing to accept emotions. They found that previous treatments had reinforced emotional avoidance and disengagement.
The nature of psilocybin's effects and its short-term use means that it does have some side effects. Magic mushrooms do not have the side effects of several antidepressant medications, most of which include:
Increased appetite and weight gain,
Decreased sexual desire or other sexual problems.
Fatigue and drowsiness
Dry mouth
Blurry vision.
Insomnia
Dizziness.
Indigestion and abdominal pain
Diarrhea or constipation