• Gerudo@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Being able to recognize my anxiety triggers, and realizing that if I don’t address it immediately, I’ll just go into panic mode has helped me a lot. I am off daily anxiety meds now, but I still need the occasional Xanax when it breaks through.

    I know long COVID has been described as typically a 1.5-2 year length, but I have permanently been affected. I’ve mentioned it in other posts before, but I have considered going to Portland to try a session of therapy through psychedelics since some testing shows that it tears down and renews neural pathways, almost like a reset switch.

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      1 day ago

      I have deadass considered just taking like 10g of shrooms to see if it would rewire my brain and potentially fix some of the BS that COVID caused. I used to do heroic doses (+15 hits) of LSD in my youth, so it’s not like the trip would be unfamiliar.

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      That’s awesome progress without psychedelics. Like, huge. I’m finally reducing daily meds after doing weekly Spravato treatments for about six months. It definitely seems to have rewired a few things. The ketamine seems to do something similar to psychedelics in that regard. Once I got a few good sessions in with solid time dissociating everything seems to have gotten so much better in respect to anxiety.