That's where microdosing comes in. A recreational dose of psilocybin is 1-3.5g, with 1 being such a gentle psychedelic experience that it's just feeling curious and introspective while visual details like light shimmering on tree leaves stands out more. A microdose is 0.1-0.4g. Zero visuals, but your vision is sharper and you have a better eye for patterns. Zero loss of control or cognitive impact, but in anxious situations it's like having a single beer. You won't have scattered and trippy thoughts but creative and systemic thinking feels much more natural. A microdose day for me is one where I go on a hike and everything is interesting, engaging, intricate, and easy to deal with. I can perceive the ecological patterns and every flower looks 30% more beautiful, with the motivation to sit down and study/photograph it as if in a low-grade zen state.
There are contraindications for psilocybin certainly- mental illnesses more serious than depression and anxiety especially if there is a psychosis component. Short of that, you wouldn't get any kind of trip from such a low dose. It's just the psychedelic headspace of being in love with an interconnected world and the energy of a pot of coffee.
edit: You also apparently can with DMT but I haven't tried it myself because a recreational dose is in the 0.03-0.05g range and cutting 1/10th of an amount as small as 30mg is hard with my scale.
When people struggle in clinical trials, or when someone goes to the ER for a bad time with psychedelics recreationally, doctors typically administer benzodiazepines to calm their anxiety and tone down the trip. Anecdotally, this is said to kill the "headspace" of the trip almost entirely even as some other aspects, like visual disturbances, persist.
Sometimes doctors will offer to prescribe a few benzos to patients with anxiety when they describe a specific limited scenario that triggers panic attacks, such as an upcoming flight that will be complicated by an intense phobia of flying.
I'm too anxious to use psychedelics to treat my anxiety because I'm anxious that my anxiety will make it a bad trip :kitty-cri-screm:
The ouroboros of mental illness
That's where microdosing comes in. A recreational dose of psilocybin is 1-3.5g, with 1 being such a gentle psychedelic experience that it's just feeling curious and introspective while visual details like light shimmering on tree leaves stands out more. A microdose is 0.1-0.4g. Zero visuals, but your vision is sharper and you have a better eye for patterns. Zero loss of control or cognitive impact, but in anxious situations it's like having a single beer. You won't have scattered and trippy thoughts but creative and systemic thinking feels much more natural. A microdose day for me is one where I go on a hike and everything is interesting, engaging, intricate, and easy to deal with. I can perceive the ecological patterns and every flower looks 30% more beautiful, with the motivation to sit down and study/photograph it as if in a low-grade zen state.
There are contraindications for psilocybin certainly- mental illnesses more serious than depression and anxiety especially if there is a psychosis component. Short of that, you wouldn't get any kind of trip from such a low dose. It's just the psychedelic headspace of being in love with an interconnected world and the energy of a pot of coffee.
edit: You also apparently can with DMT but I haven't tried it myself because a recreational dose is in the 0.03-0.05g range and cutting 1/10th of an amount as small as 30mg is hard with my scale.
When people struggle in clinical trials, or when someone goes to the ER for a bad time with psychedelics recreationally, doctors typically administer benzodiazepines to calm their anxiety and tone down the trip. Anecdotally, this is said to kill the "headspace" of the trip almost entirely even as some other aspects, like visual disturbances, persist.
Sometimes doctors will offer to prescribe a few benzos to patients with anxiety when they describe a specific limited scenario that triggers panic attacks, such as an upcoming flight that will be complicated by an intense phobia of flying.
"Sometimes I get nervous on airplanes."
Yep the only solution is just to hold your breath and do it anyway