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Educating yourself on psychoactive substances is a good advise. Saying that, many people who are dealing with depression and anxiety need active help. Growing a

Educating yourself on psychoactive substances is a good advise. Saying that, many people who are dealing with depression and anxiety need active help. Growing and consuming your own mushrooms might be a very counterproductive or even dangerous advise for an inexperienced person with severe anxiety. Managed ketamine therapy starts as low as $1200 for 6 sessions I believe.

akomtu 5y ago
Those 6 sessions are bundled with a long manuscript that relieves the clinic from all liability, so you're on your own anyway.
- augustuspolius 5y ago
  Check out Mindbloom. These sessions are bundled with a psychiatric and medical assessment, integration sessions, clear and easy to follow guidance for every session, music options. They are very focused on “set and setting”. Also the first session requires you to have a guide present (your friend or relative), who has to communicate over video with your Mindbloom guide right before the session. This system is not perfect but practically as close as it can get to a fully guided affordable session.
  - goatsi 5y ago
    Do you have any experience with them? From this recent article it seems like they are having issues with scaling and staff turnover: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpp3k/psychedelic-telemedicine-has-arrived-what-could-possibly-go-wrong https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpp3k/psychedelic-telemedic...
    - augustuspolius 5y ago
      I am having an exceptionally positive experience with them. Saying that, I am pretty experienced when it comes to therapy and psychedelics, so didn’t need a lot of handholding from them.
whalesalad 5y ago
> Growing and consuming your own mushrooms might be a very counterproductive or even dangerous advise for an inexperienced person with severe anxiety. This is terrible advice that needs to stop being perpetuated.
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spoonjim 5y ago
For many people, $1200 is functionally equivalent to $12 billion. Alternative solutions are good.
it_does_follow 5y ago
> as low as $1200 for 6 sessions Never change HN. Even for many people in tech, this is not a trivial sum.

akomtu 5y ago

Those 6 sessions are bundled with a long manuscript that relieves the clinic from all liability, so you're on your own anyway.

augustuspolius 5y ago
Check out Mindbloom. These sessions are bundled with a psychiatric and medical assessment, integration sessions, clear and easy to follow guidance for every session, music options. They are very focused on “set and setting”. Also the first session requires you to have a guide present (your friend or relative), who has to communicate over video with your Mindbloom guide right before the session. This system is not perfect but practically as close as it can get to a fully guided affordable session.
- goatsi 5y ago
  Do you have any experience with them? From this recent article it seems like they are having issues with scaling and staff turnover: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpp3k/psychedelic-telemedicine-has-arrived-what-could-possibly-go-wrong https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpp3k/psychedelic-telemedic...
  - augustuspolius 5y ago
    I am having an exceptionally positive experience with them. Saying that, I am pretty experienced when it comes to therapy and psychedelics, so didn’t need a lot of handholding from them.

whalesalad 5y ago

> Growing and consuming your own mushrooms might be a very counterproductive or even dangerous advise for an inexperienced person with severe anxiety. This is terrible advice that needs to stop being perpetuated.

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spoonjim 5y ago

For many people, $1200 is functionally equivalent to $12 billion. Alternative solutions are good.

it_does_follow 5y ago

> as low as $1200 for 6 sessions Never change HN. Even for many people in tech, this is not a trivial sum.