How I Felt After Taking Shrooms

My first-time experience.

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I decided to take shrooms or magic mushrooms recently with my best friend. While I do not condone taking it for legal reasons, the experience was something else, let me tell you.

First things first, I consumed 1 gram of shroom which is equivalent to about 5 to 20 grams of the psychoactive component psilocybin. This could be considered a microdose compared to other treatments and recreational usage.

Why would I take shrooms? I suffer from major depressive disorder (MDD) and recently saw some research pertaining to my disorder and psilocybin usage. This research, which was conducted by John Hopkins University, found psilocybin to be effective at producing large, rapid and sustained antidepressant effects for patients with MDD.

While more research is needed it seemed the benefits outweighed the cost for me. Psilocybin has a remarkable safety protocol compared to other psychedelics and there was evidence for my particular disorder. So, I took the plunge.

What did I feel? My sense of touch felt more sensitive, I noticed my body a lot more. The sensation of my beard as I touched it felt more surreal, it was like my hand was there but not there. As if every tactile sense I had was working on overdrive.