> I’ve tried to all - I guess DMT, mushroom, etc. don’t work on me in a Terence McKenna storytelling fashion (I only get stoned and have very entertaining closed eye visuals that take me off to sleep).
I'm not trying to "diagnose" someone, I'm asking for a correlation of additional observational data. Maybe it's a data point for or against certain conditions and how they interact with different substances, but wouldn't know until the response.
It is well known that people on SSRIs, etc will have "blocking effects" for various substances because of their mechanism of action.
But I have also met some people with severe depression or were bipolar 1 that both were not on any medications and had no visuals or sensory disturbances of any kind.
Instead of trying to diagnose people over the Internet try getting a job or hobby, maybe a side project. Who knows, you might get rich??
I have never taken SSRI so I can't speak on it, but I have smoked mountains of weed and the shaman at the end of time told me that you were an utter dipshit your whole existence. Sorry about that
Individual differences in serotonin (5-HT2A) receptor density, sensitivity, or downstream signaling pathways mean that the physical mechanism required to trigger visual or auditory alterations may not fire the same way for everyone.
I'm asking a question about your experience, not trying to diagnose you. I'm asking if you maybe already have been.
> but I have smoked mountains of weed and the shaman at the end of time told me that you were an utter dipshit your whole existence. Sorry about that
Nevermind, don't care anymore. Your response wasn't even to me originally.
If you knew a thing about it, you’d be more interested in the cannabis use and its widely documented suppression of REM that causes avid users to stop having vivid dreams.
Wouldn’t that be the first thing you’d ask in good faith - what kinds and amounts of other drugs is the person taking, sleep schedule, etc.
What I'm interested in has two parts: Psychedelics used as mental health treatments, and those documented cases of negative reaction to potent psychedelics in people with and without formally diagnosed mental health conditions.
We have some ideas but there needs to be much better data.
This is all wrapped up in just finding effective mental health treatments, btw.
What makes you think you can diagnose a person over the Internet with so little info?
Especially taking into account people are not always “themselves” online rather than tapping into culture/communication? Sheesh