How psychedelics work, explained in under 6 minutes | Matthew Johnson

Psilocybin flipped the off switch on my social anxiety like a light switch. It's effect lasted long enough that I thought it permanent. My anxiety and doubts and lack of self worth was gone. Anything that can make you love yourself should be legal.

I can honestly say psychedelic experience was probably one of the most profound and beautiful collection of moments I have ever had.

I just had my first experience with golden teachers, it was really great! I loved it.

I could remember several years ago, I was actually diagnosed with cptsd. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.

A bad psilocybin trip helped me to stop disliking myself. It was an incredibly interesting and eye opening experience which finally helped me to stop judging and comparing myself to others in the most negative ways.

Psychedelics have the ability to induce profound altered states of consciousness.

I just tried MUSHROOMS for the first time. I felt as if i was in the center of the universe. I didn't go crazy after such an extreme experience. Totally got rid of depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction.

Psychedelic therapy is just one of those great leaps in the mental health space. It’s wonderful and the fact they serve recreational use and health as well. Can’t say I don’t trip once in a while.

Psychedelics are just an exceptional discovery. They are really effective against depression, stress disorders and the likes of other mental health issues. Saved my life

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ― Terence McKenna

I took psychedelics while actively participating in psychotherapy after getting out of the mental hospital for suicidal thoughts. After 6 years of depression and 2 suicide attempts psychedelics helped give me vital insights into my degrading thought patterns. I had to put in a lot of work integrating these into therapy and real life. Repeating the lessons to myself under my breath over and over everyday. But for the first time ever I can say that I am completely depression and anxiety free and hope to become an entrepreneur in the psychedelic industry to give back what was given to me. I want to cry just thinking about all the lost souls who need help understanding their misery, I know that place and I wanted to get out so bad. I owe my entire life to these substances and my therapist. I am so healthy and capable now, all I want is to be able to give that back to others who were stuck just like me.

Psychedelics are just an amazing discovery. It's quite fascinating how effective they are for depression and stress disorders. Saved my life

I've met psychedelics at 19 and been using them ever since, 3/4 trips per year and occasionally microdosing. They've helped me cure depression completely, I found happiness and peace. With good set&setting I think they can help everyone with their issues, a good intention can change a life and the possibility to intend your future stays in you even when you're sober. Peace and stay strong in this episode of your cosmic journey :3

At 19 years old psychedelics completely changed my whole life. How I viewed the world. How I viewed myself and everyone & everything I came upon

Psychedelic is the answer to most severe anxiety and depression. The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself.

I just did a heroic dose and had an experience I forgot I was a human being and keep forgetting I have hands. I was waiting for something to tell me what my purpose was and realized to stop always thinking I have to do something and enjoy life. Absolutely the greatest moment in my life….

Important note: at 2:40 he mentions Psilocybin (active compound in magic mushrooms) but the timing and edit show Amanita Muscaria aka Fly Agaric (of which the active compounds are muscimol and ibotenic acid) which is completely different and commonly mistaken for magic mushrooms- while it CAN be used for hallucinogenic properties it's not recommended and typically not a very pleasant experience. Instead it's more commonly microdosed for anxiety, healthier sleep and more focus and has just started seeing a revolution in terms of understanding and use and also has a long standing traditional use in many communities throughout the world. It's an important distinction because they work on very different parts of the brain (GABA vs serotonin) and the same mistake has been propagated for the last few decades and thus many people write it off or lump it in as something people just take to trip exactly because of editing or assumption like this.

Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life, never had a bad trip.

I have been suffering from CPTSD since I was abused for being autistic by my parents as a child. I was a nervous wreck around other people, afraid to talk to anyone, and my mental health was in the trash can. I had depression, I couldn't get myself to leave home or get a job, and I'd often times think about suicide or self injury. This all changed one day when I came across a few videos talking about psilocybin and ayahuasca. They mentioned how they could have long term lasting positive benefits on life meaning and helping you out of a depression. I took a leap of faith and tried both of these substances with a year between each of them. After psilocybin it was like I was snapped out of my funk instantly, and I began to turn my life around. I got a job, I learned to drive, I saved up and bought my own car and moved out of my grandmas house. Later I was still dealing with self worth and anxiety issues, so I tried the ayahuasca by going to a Native American church on the west coast. During the experience it was like all negative patterns of thought bubbled up, popped, and disappeared. I saw many visions and learned more about myself in the span of two nights than I've learned in my 25 years of life. I saw the light and love that I never had growing up and I was changed for the better. I'm still not perfect, and it would be foolish to expect to fix all my flaws, but I'm at a point where I can look at myself in the mirror and feel a sense of pride looking at how far I've come from where I started. These are powerful sacred medicines and be treated with respect. Anyone thinking about using should do proper research before committing to trying, and have the proper company. But if you do I promise it will change your life. (Also, this goes without saying, but don't buy these things online you'll only get scammed)

I'll be forever grateful for psychedelics. They helped me "rewire" my brain. Long story short, I got Tourettes syndrome, not in my wildest dream did I thought it was possible to locate what triggers my tics and many reasons behind them. It was like I could use the overheating brain signals to send the tics outside my body and forcing the impulse in the brain to just stay there, almost cooking. But after a while, it was cooling of. Sounds very easy, takes incredible amount of willpower but LSD, somehow, helped me locate why many of my tics is there. Like went straight into my subconcious and saw it in a way that I didn't knew was possible. Psychedelics is really incredible.