35 Years of Depression: Two Weeks of Microdosing

After 35 years of on/off depression since the age of 11 or 12 years old — some of it so severe that it took me to my bed for months on multiple points through my life — after 2 weeks of microdosing I see and more importantly feel a big difference.

Anxiety and depression has largely gone (replaced with another type of anxiety: why am I not feeling anxious or depressed? It feels unusual both physically, emotionally, and psychologically).

Benefits:

• Mind is like still water — perhaps like the benefits of being a long-term meditator (I've been unable to meditate successfully before for any length of time)
• Vocabulary smoother, more detailed
• Problem solving simpler, faster, better results, more enjoyable
• Engagement and focus on task increased and much easier (not getting distracted or disheartened by mundane or previously difficult but necessary tasks)
• Greater compassion to myself and my emotions
• Greater compassion to others and their emotions
• Emotional and psychological stability
• Increased perspective objectivity on emotional and psychological events
• More rationality
• More loving thoughts
• Aversion to situations, people, emotions, technological addictions (smartphones, internet, TV), foods that are not good for me
• Increased and more marked patience and tolerance

Profile: Age 46 Male. Dosage: 0.25g of dried Golden Teacher mushrooms on a 3-day cycle (1 day on, 2 days off).

I will report back periodically. I'm 2 weeks in. It's early, early days — to be continued.