What shroom species did you eat and your friend same or different?

Idk about harm reduction and if this would be answered but I'm nearly 4 months off of risperidone and escilatopram something to do with trauma I've tried cubensis on 6-7 grams doesn't really do anything crazy just body high ngl I was expecting some life changing experience.

Tbf it's been hiding in my room for 1 month but it's airtight. And some people are saying cubensis is a weaker shroom so idk about that and they're saying shrooms do lose potency the longer you stock it up.

Rn I'm planning in the future to get panaeolus cyanescens only cost 11 dollars for 5g.

My question is the ssri inhibiting effects permanent from fully experiencing shroom? even though you're months off?

I don’t trip off of mushrooms anymore. The first few times I’ve had wonderful trips. That last 4-5 times no matter the dosage (from 2.5 grams to 5 grams) eating dry and using lemon tek. I get no noticeable affects. I have friends who’ve eaten the exact same grow and have tripped incredibly hard. I take no medications of any kind and am just curious what might’ve caused this? Also usually have months in between trips for a tolerance break.

Why were wifi networks found on so many machines that were intended to not that have feature on them.

Also don't you consider dominion to be an ominous name for a voting machine? Also they have been used in countries we know are subject fraud and their results seem suspicious. Also did you see the film 200 mules.

What are the dangers of MDMA? Is there any truth to the idea that you can permanently damage your brain and never have a proper hormonal balance again?

Not really. A tiny inactive project can run all those risks,sure. But voting software to be used in the US is going to be a big, active project. And many interest groups will be willing to pay for reviews of the source.

Every change sticks out like a sore thumb; hiding an exploit in a bug fix is more of a movie plot than a reality. Automated testing and source analysis will pick up any call out of the software with no human intervention.

I am a big fan of RLAs. Basically we ran the election in 2020 in a way very few statistical tests could be run to compute a confidence level on the ballots.

However, software builds can be hashed and signed, and open source hardware can refuse to load unsigned builds. But how to evaluate the signature? This is where small cryptographic proofs from blockchains provide a distributed ledger.

The hardware and the software can be reviewed by everyone earning money in the voting game, and when disputes arise, there is no excuse to demand access to the voting machines because everyone has access by definition.

Open Source solves both pragmatic transparency issues, and political ones.

Because nobody except you should know who you voted for. You vote in private so that nobody has influence over your vote. If there was a chance spouses, employers, or friends could confirm how you cast your votes, your votes would be influenced.

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Lithium is highly likely to cause seizures and bad trips. If you haven't already, I'd definitely stop taking any psychedelics with it.

Sure the machines are sitting in minimally secured voting places. And usually they are already plugged in and charging. But they cannot be turned on without breaking seals and loading the election by entering passwords. And even if someone went in and ran up one or many votes overnight, when poll workers arrived they would notice the seals were broken and public/protected counts would be off. And in our case, there would be paper ballots in the bins of the tabulator. All red flags that would be immediately investigated. We would see it in the logs and it would be painfully obvious.

In my county we do L&A (logic and accuracy) testing. Both parties are involved everything is signed off and documented. I know this isn't forensic level, but what more would one want? We complete a test deck using ballot markers, test all races in all precincts. Tabulate them and output a print that checks against the test deck produced. All of this is held in archives and reviewable by the public. Machines are zeroed and sealed and will not be touched until election day.

I greatly appreciate the response. Thank you.

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Maybe I'm missing something but how can we find safe psychedelics to use? I did 3.5 grams of shrooms.. blood pressure was sky high the next day

I feel like many here are missing the point of this post sadly. Most of the comments here are asking questions in a manner that promotes taking these substances. And although I think we can all agree we need to study this more, the point of this post was to showcase the negative experiences people have using them after reading too much about the positive effects on the internet, in the media, on reddit, on netflix. There are so many positive links and articles surrounding this subject and almost none regarding the dangers, especially here on reddit. We are rapidly changing how people view these substances and we are going to experience some blowback. And thats what these guys are talking about. Sadly I was one of the victims. I took mushrooms 3 years ago and it has completely ruined my life. Im a little better now but there isn't a day that goes by where I'm not negatively affected by it. So my question is, how do you we get people to realise that this can go wrong? Its not all positive nor is risk free. Many people take these substances and are never the same again. I was watching a podcast with Joe Koy who had his genetic testing done. The doctor had told him that he had a gene for schizophrenia that could be triggered by using Marijuana or psychedelics. Luckily he wasn't a big user but he preached the dangers. I imagine many people have these sort of triggers and its important people take caution when diving into this world.

Replying to this because I want to highlight that experience in 1 is not experience in another. A friend of mine is very well versed in lsd. I have seen them take what we estimate to be doses of .8 to 1.25mg. (Naturally we can't be certain because it's not well regulated) But whatever the number these were VERY high doses well beyond what people usually take. They're familiar with the substance and can remain "calm" on these herculean doses. They assumed the experience would translate to psilocybin because they are similar. He was very wrong. At 7 grams they had a few hours where they were absolutely convinced they were dying to the point of considering 911. From how they describe it they honestly should have called. To this day they still exhibit PTSD from the event.

Firstly: we're glad to hear you're reaching out after such a series of difficult experiences, and that you've given yourself a pause on further recreational substance usage while you work through this.

What you're describing is rare, but not unheard of, and something one of us (Ally, writing) has seen in clinical settings with some frequency. People sometimes have such a traumatic time on psychedelics - either due to something that happened during the psychedelic experience itself, or a traumatic experience that it unearthed from their memory - that they develop demonstrate symptoms of PTSD. This includes sometimes a reliving of the trauma in flashback episodes. For other individuals, repeated psychotic episodes after a difficult psychedelic experience may be in part influenced by a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia or other related disorders; it could be that family history is a factor here.

Whatever the cause - and again, it could be a few things - there are folks out there who can help you unpack that in a compassionate, nonjudgmental way, who are also quite skeptical of mainstream behavioral healthcare. (That's why so many of us have shifted our focus into psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, as we are acutely aware of how poorly the establishment has treated so many with mainstream psychiatry.) As difficult as it may be, a good first step would be seeking the right professional assistance on this to tease out a pattern behind the psychotic episodes. Working with someone with a clinical eye to establish what's triggering them - which is sometimes subtle and quite surprising! - can help understand their root cause, and help identify more customized strategies for how you minimize their intensity and reduce their frequency in the long term. If you're not quite up to finding someone to partner with on this, we'd advise starting a journaling practice to try to gather this information for yourself to see if you can pick apart a pattern, and if one of your friends has interest in supporting you in using a co-counseling or similar model.

Also adding: as someone who has operated in clinical environments for much of my career, it's often frustrating that we are pressured by regulatory to create a diagnosis to put on paper to justify insurance billing purposes, or for ease of communication with other providers in such a fast paced environment, when the nuances of an individual case really defy whatever is in the latest already-outdated DSM and can feel dehumanizing. In my experience, a lot of the therapists that specifically work with psychedelics are also skeptical of mainstream diagnostic labeling and mainstream psychiatry for some of the same reasons you are, so you might be best of seeking someone off the MAPS psychedelic integration list. There's some specific nuance to the experience of trauma while on psychedelics that a mainstream behavioral specialist who doesn't have that specialized education just won't get. It's such a uniquely hellacious experience, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I’m wondering how ‘coming out’ publicly as psychedelic enthusiasts has affected your lives/careers? I tend to feel like I need to be very guarded about my experiences so that it doesn’t have a negative impact on my professional life especially. Did you have to kind of dive all-in to this?

Yeah, the one and only time doing Salvia left me with harsh flashbacks for over a decade. But the dissociation was real. I didn't even know my own name, or what a name even meant. Wouldn't suggest a solo trip for that at all.

Thanks for the very thoughtful reply. To digress, it was on a heavy trip that things were very challenging and I confronted my fear of death and suddenly poof, all gone. But up to that point the fear was visceral.

Regardless, I think what you mentioned below is very good safety advice, I think familiarizing oneself with whatever they're taking and dosing lightly for a few times first until they're ready to take a deeper dive is the best practice.

To start with the initial question: Drug-induced psychosis (DIP) refers to a clinical diagnosis. DIP may encompass a few different symptoms that demonstrate a lack of connection to reality, such as hallucinations and feelings of paranoia, and is, by definition, always triggered by use of a drug of some kind. Ego death is a single symptom that some folks may experience, which is not necessarily attached to a psychotic episode (let alone specifically one that is drug-induced.)

To your broader experience: that's unfortunately more common than we'd like to see, and is often preventable with some care taken on the preventative side. We really advise folks take their time to prepare for an experience and really think through all the individual factors that could lead to a difficult time - when you minimize risks, it usually also maximizes potential benefits. We made a checklist of our dosing protocol here, and a more specific one about evaluating set & setting here. Creating a safe container for you to voyage in is absolutely critical, and if you don't have that safe container you're a lot more likely to have a difficult time like what you've experienced.

Here's a table that covers answers to your question in regards to the most common psychedelics.

If I'm on ssri medication and want to have a psychedelic experience, what's the safest route?

Why aren’t ballots traceable to an active member of society but are left blank with no unique identifier traceable back to someone?