Hello All,
I am going to preface this by saying that this is entirely a hypothetical introduction and me "role playing."
Before around a year and a half ago I had very limited psychedelic experience (like 2-3 mushroom trips up to like 3.5gs). I had always used them for relatively surface level "fun" experiences but never for self exploration.
To make a long story short the first year of college I was super tame and did virtually no mind altering substances apart from weed. The beginning of my second year I ended a 2 year long, long distance relationship and proceeded to go relatively off the rails in terms of chemical experimenting/partying/etc. This is when I first tried K, LSD, Coke, Pills, Etc. Ultimately, this turned into a dark path, and one day as a 20 year old college student I had to look in the mirror and come to terms that I was hooked on opiates and coke. After this I decided to cold turkey stop them both, poured everything in the toilet and strapped in. Withdrawals were horrible, didn't sleep for three days, cold sweats, nausea, the whole works. During day three of no sleep, I remembered hearing that psychedelics had been shown to aid in overcoming addiction. I sourced myself a shroom bar (In hindsight was definitely some amalgamation of RCs) and sat by a lake for a while. It was the deepest I had ever tripped, I literally felt my brain rewiring itself and knew that the "addiction" part of my life was in the past. I came out of it feeling pretty much good as new.
This moment was a turning point in my life. I realized the therapeutic potential psychedelics hold. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a doctor, and I am still currently a pre-medical undergrad student. I never knew what specialty I wanted to enter, I just knew that I wanted to help as many people as possible. After this experience I decided that I wanted to commit my life to psychedelic medicine. I now plan on doing psychiatry along side psychedelic research.
After I decided this was the path I was going to take, I started to study up, reading all of the psychedelic literature I could find as well as experimenting with myself. Experiencing DMT as well as reading the works of Dr. Fadiman have pretty much changed my entire outlook on life. Even friends of mine during this transition period have commented on how much I have changed in just a year and a half for the better (supposedly I have had a substantial loss of ego).
Sorry if that was a little much for an introductory post. Overall I am excited to be here and very passionate about psychedelics and the psychedelic experience. I am looking forward to meeting you all.
Best,
Donk
I am going to preface this by saying that this is entirely a hypothetical introduction and me "role playing."
Before around a year and a half ago I had very limited psychedelic experience (like 2-3 mushroom trips up to like 3.5gs). I had always used them for relatively surface level "fun" experiences but never for self exploration.
To make a long story short the first year of college I was super tame and did virtually no mind altering substances apart from weed. The beginning of my second year I ended a 2 year long, long distance relationship and proceeded to go relatively off the rails in terms of chemical experimenting/partying/etc. This is when I first tried K, LSD, Coke, Pills, Etc. Ultimately, this turned into a dark path, and one day as a 20 year old college student I had to look in the mirror and come to terms that I was hooked on opiates and coke. After this I decided to cold turkey stop them both, poured everything in the toilet and strapped in. Withdrawals were horrible, didn't sleep for three days, cold sweats, nausea, the whole works. During day three of no sleep, I remembered hearing that psychedelics had been shown to aid in overcoming addiction. I sourced myself a shroom bar (In hindsight was definitely some amalgamation of RCs) and sat by a lake for a while. It was the deepest I had ever tripped, I literally felt my brain rewiring itself and knew that the "addiction" part of my life was in the past. I came out of it feeling pretty much good as new.
This moment was a turning point in my life. I realized the therapeutic potential psychedelics hold. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a doctor, and I am still currently a pre-medical undergrad student. I never knew what specialty I wanted to enter, I just knew that I wanted to help as many people as possible. After this experience I decided that I wanted to commit my life to psychedelic medicine. I now plan on doing psychiatry along side psychedelic research.
After I decided this was the path I was going to take, I started to study up, reading all of the psychedelic literature I could find as well as experimenting with myself. Experiencing DMT as well as reading the works of Dr. Fadiman have pretty much changed my entire outlook on life. Even friends of mine during this transition period have commented on how much I have changed in just a year and a half for the better (supposedly I have had a substantial loss of ego).
Sorry if that was a little much for an introductory post. Overall I am excited to be here and very passionate about psychedelics and the psychedelic experience. I am looking forward to meeting you all.
Best,
Donk
