Mushroom Trips Can Help With Anxiety - Business Insider
Mushroom Trips Can Help With Anxiety - Business Insider : Roc Morin, from the Atlantic Psilocybe Pelliculosa Mushrooms Lightworkerpeace/Wikimedia Commons Psilocybe Pelliculosa mushrooms, one of the more than 200 psilocybin-containing species. "Some of the things I'm about to say might not make sense," began O.M., a 22-year-old cancer survivor. He had the far-off look in his eyes that I recognized from so many of the other study participants. They sound like travelers, struggling to describe exotic foreign lands to the people left back home. That struggle is a sign that the treatment has worked. Ineffability is one of the primary criteria that define a mystical experience. "I was outside of my body, looking at myself," O.M. continued, "My body was lying on a stretcher in front of a hospital. I felt an incredible anxiety — the same anxiety I had felt every day since my diagnosis. Then, like a switch went on, I went from being anxious to analyzing my anxi...