it has been incredibly cold for the past 4 days, but thankfully i have new clothes so it hasn’t been very bad in practice

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    Welcome. I wish it were under better circumstances. I know well the pain of trying to find the right meds – it can take years and is unlikely to be useful if treatment-resistant. I’m not going to make suggestions, as you’re likely just finding out whether an SSRI/SNRI is working, I will point out that the purpose of U.S.-based medicine is to make sure you never get better and have to keep paying because, somehow next month …

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      Thank you. Definitely hear that on the western medicine model. Hoping I’m not medicine resistant but a lot of my friends are. Honestly, not looking for a miracle. Just some friggin wiggle room.

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          I’ve heard raving reviews with some of my friends on mushrooms. I am currently on lexapro. The initial dosage wasn’t doing shit for me but this new adjustment seems to perhaps be lifting the curtain. If all else fails I’ll give mushrooms a try.

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              Lol I uhh… when I was a teenager I was taking them a lot. One fine night I was admiring the full moon from a park by my house and then it popped into my head that the full beautiful bright moon might also be a meteor coming in for the kill. Worst trip ever, lol. I haven’t done a full dose since. That being said, I did micro dose on a chill countryside trip to Colombia and that was ok.

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                Set and setting. You’re going to have a completely different trip based on your mindset and physical location. I tripped a few times in college, but that was just for fun and a minor ingredient for my drug use at the time. Therapeutic use is quite different, and I reorganized my whole apartment ahead of my first trip to make sure nothing around me could make it go bad.