So, through another forum I frequent, I came across this website which I haven't fully gone through as there is a lot of material there.
I was introduced to it by a young girl who treated symptoms of her Asperger's with MDMA and later psilocybin. Her inability to read emotions or to express her own, for example.
The website is her friend's. Her friend was involved in self-treatment as well, but I haven't gotten into her story yet.
Why I personally find this extremely interesting is that I myself used MDMA and psilocybin to treat depression and social anxiety I suffered in my teenage years.
With absolute success, I should like to add. It was like a switch. The MDMA turnt off the depressive mental state and the psilocybin allowed me to integrate the new mental state into my life.
Anyway, the site is the story of how some young people took treating their minds into their own hands.
The publisher of the site seems to be writing mostly about her experiences with psilocybin. They seem extensive. Way more times than I've ever even dreamed of. Anyway, for those who don't know, psilocybin is the most active alkaloid in some mushroom species. It's a psychoactive substance (like caffeine, alchol, meth, etc) that works primarily on a subset of serotonin receptors in the brain. It stimulates neuroplasticity and new neural connections which is the basis for its therapeutic benefits.
Psilocybin is hydrolysed into psilocin in vivo and it is the psilocin that actually reaches the seretonin receptors, mimicking serotonin, which is a base neurotransmitter that regulates mood, appetite, sleep, and other things in the human body.
Anyway, give it an eye. Learn something new.
https://beyondtheparallax.com/
