EXCLUSIVE: Could magic mushrooms treat depression? BBC Newsnight 

Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.

People have known this for thousands of years.

News flash bbc discovers 10000 year old treatment

Psychedelic therapy is one of those great leaps in the mental health space. It’s wonderful and the fact that they serve recreational use and health purposes as well. It helped me get rid of depression and anxiety.

shrooms completely turned my life around I stopped drinking as much my anxiety and panic attacks disappeared and my personality changed into a much more generous and loving person. FREE THE FUNGI

mushrooms make you face your problems head on, you can't hide and bury them deeper when you trip.

The illegalization of psychedelics is a crime against humanity. How about we let adults decide for themselves what to do with their consciousness?

Short answer, yes, saved my life practically. And I'm the most hardcore skeptic you can imagine.

the answer is yes. But the drug is illegal simply because it taking it allows you to see past the fallacies of society, and The Company wouldn't like that. We are all sheep.

They should try replacing anti depressants with micro doses of Psilocybin

It's hilarious that they don't think to provide that sort of environment in a hopsital anyway...

Here in Brazil is illegal to sell psilocybin.. but it’s ok to sell Psilocybe Cubensis mushrooms. Just bought mine online 🙌🏻

I grew up on the ghetto in Northern California. And at age 13 I started robbing drug dealers with a gun. At age 16 I was pimping girls out older than my parents. And at 18 I was making over 100k a month selling drugs and running a big pimp operation. My friend told me to take shrooms. So I did and wow did it change my life. I have more empathy towards people and stopped everything I was doing. I got married and started my own lawn maintenance company and now my business is making around 500k a year. I'm 27 now and shrooms changed my life for the better!

I do mushrooms regularly. And I can tell you that having two psychologists at the end of your bed , asking you constantly to report on your experience and also. I think the lighting in that room isn't cosy. Completely dark room with a bathroom next door. Trust me, being analysed by sober psychiatrists guiding me through a tripp is the most anxious setup imaginable. A spa would be perfect. Nice warm bath . Good food prepared. Nice aromas. Perhaps some art work adorned about the place

My first trip was awful, probably because I took too much, anyways after a year of being afraid of mushrooms from past experience I finally tested them out again, and honestly? I've changed my life around so much, I was unorganized, I had severe depression (wanting to die, contemplating) and my life was just a complete mess. Anyway, I'm more focused and I'm actually more happier, instead of staying in a dark room all day I go out more and I actually started decorating my room which is something. After 4 years of depression, I'd say mushrooms really fixed me.

'the problem is it is only a theory' - bad reporting there...

5:47 - Piss off with the 'Class A' bollocks

Yes it can cure depression. It can also break the mental part of addiction. The key is giving in, and letting the mushrooms take control.

YES!!!! Thank you for promoting this!! I'm studying neuroscience and I've dug really deep into many different psychedelics and supporting compounds that can get you off addictions to opiates, has helped me personally with depression, it stimulates adult neural growth, it can help treat PTSD super effectively

There is nothing "radical" about using psilocybin mushrooms when they have been used ceremonially for centuries.

wrong environment to do magic mushrooms..

i took an eighth of shrooms and played some footy, listened to music, and walked around my neighborhood with my bro... i would never want to creepy fucks lurking over me in a dark room telling me what to do in that state of mind lmao

This is so one-sided. It's basically saying psychedelics are bad for you. They have changed my life for the greater good.

Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s just so hard to source here

I took mushrooms with my friend, and its one of my best memories. I felt like I was going through a portal into different worlds. We ate an 8th each for our first time and it was intense. I remember looking into the ceiling and it slowly started spinning into itself like a portal. I looked around the ceiling and I could see other little portals spinning. We looked at that ceiling for like 15 minutes but it felt like an hour had passed. I remember it was getting dark and I was starting to get scared so I went home. When I got home I looked in the mirror and I saw myself looking back at me, not a good idea to look into mirrors when on shrooms, so I decided to watch tv. I don’t remember what I was watching, or what was even on at the time but I do remember this one commercial. It was a bunch of people playing Volleyball on the beach and they looked like they were having a great time. The next thing I know... I look around and I’m in the commercial. People are all around me, everyone’s having a good time. I start tripping out so I turn off the tv. I started looking for things to do and I remembered my friend let me borrow a comic called Akira. I read the whole manga that night. I felt like every page was a portal and I could see the characters talking and when they drove motorcycles down the freeway, I could feel the wind. I could hear the sounds from the motorcycles. I watched each page carefully as I was reading looking at every detail.

iam feeling depressed, i need mushrooms and weed stat

i use specifically for depression. It no longer claims its hold over my life. Its seriously amazing

Magic mushroome is the best when you do it in the nature setting I think. I did on the beach. It was amazing. All nature comes alive.

I'm really depressed!!! ... Can I be treated like this?!

I have been trying this lately and the expression "resets your brain" couldn't be more true.

so happy this is finally getting some traction.

I can tell you that even out of a clinical setting, which I still wouldn't recommend. I managed to almost eradicate my depression and anxiety for a 3 month period after each dose, which in all reality is much cheaper than a prescription every month, and most likely healthier

everything is fine, everything is beautiful. that's what the psychedelics told me as well

4 years ago and whats happening, nothing! People still suffering needlessly. We should be ashamed of how our ignorance condemns others to pain.

Many if not most depressed people are depressed because they're more connected to reality then the regs. If you give them something that disconnects them from reality, it's not surprising that it would lessen the depression.

The answer is yes they most certainly do treat depression. It's like 20 years of psychoanalysis in one trip if done correctly. I speak from experience.

I'm such a deep feeler, a huge big-picture thinker. I'm a true empath and genuinely sensitive. I have lifelong depression. I'm scared these mushrooms will hurt me a lot. As in, I feel that I'll feel even deeper than I already do and I'm honestly not sure I can handle that weight. ...

yes. also migraines & cluster headaches.

About time :) Thank you for uploading!

I love how this is posed as a question, Like, ohhhh can theyyy? and every comment is "yes"

Link to the new trial please!

I told my mom that I loved her and that Ik I don’t say that to her much, while on mushrooms. Nearly balled my eyes out right after that.

Magic Mushrooms is the Manna spoken of in the Bible. We all need to take this to 'get back home' and set free from this world matrix which is just an illusion.

Genesis 1:12 [12] And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Micro dosing should be mandatory for all humans! This world would literally change for the better in weeks!!🍄💯

5:45 - 6:00 - loving the concept that it's dangerous to take people off anti-depressants and put them on a "class a drug" ... funny how society forces people to think of mushrooms as class a drugs; and that pharmaceutically produced compounds marketed by for profit organisations made in labs aren't. ...Until you take mushrooms....

Don't need to watch the video to say, *HELL YES* . I was severely depressed when this pandemic first hit and I micro dosed and it helped me so much.

Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.- Genesis 1:11-12

I have no reason to lie. Silocybin mushrooms cured my major depression for a few months. Afterward in those like three months my emotions weren't permanently locked on the depression setting, where everyone with depression doesn't seem to know how to control. I would definitely say that was one of the mpre life changing experiences of my life. Just remember to take them with a good friend or loved one so they may aid in amy drifting thoughts that could be described as unwanted/negative. The effects of which i still channel to this day in a very helpful way.

Ten people have never tried magic mushrooms

Ros is such a sweet person. I wish she was in NYC for treatment

I've had some incredible experiences with this. Looking forward to making more content revolving around this. Would love to collab! Keep it up!

Psilocybin was absolutely fundimental in my quitting alcohol. I suffered from chronic alcoholism for a decade, and haven't had a drink in half a decade now. Not one. I also was able to quit tobacco in one day (same day I quit alcohol: Dec 30th, 2014.). I have since taken up photography, gotten back to thru-hiking and climbing, quit eating meat, and provide a better life for myself and my family. We are on the verge of bucking the weight of a stigma that has kept people from realizing their true potential for generations now. The more we talk about this, the faster we bring to fruition essential changes in law and the way we administer medcine/treatment. Thank you BBC for highlighting what has become part of my llife's work; that means so much to people all around the world who have had their lives changed for the better via etheogenic experiences. I have long valued the honesty and integrity of your programming. Tonight, you earned a subscriber here on RU-vid.

The last place in depression I would ever want to be is in a medically induced setting, dark room and having someone talking medically to me to understand what I, "I" was feeling during the experience. How does this induce life changing experiences? What a nightmare for these people. Change the venue. Give these people a visually and auditory stimulating setting to allow a pleasurable experience to set in. Good grief!

With these studies, they are not intending to recommend Psilocybin because it's a naturally occuring product. They might allow some people access to it legally..... Big Oil own big pharma and most pharmaceuticals are made with petroleum and therefore they are looking for ways they can add psilocybin to trivial crap like peppermint flavoring so they can patent it like with Sativex where it's pure cannabis oil but they can't patent cannabis oil so they add peppermint flavoring, some alcohol to make it less viscous and easily sprayed and claim a 1:1 dose of THC and CBD is their original idea. So when they say they need more studies, that doesn't mean psilocybin doesn't work - many people use it - especially athletes however what they are saying is that they need more studies so the monopoly men can work out how to abuse your money and profit like a parasite. Mushrooms are part of nature and belong to the earth and the monopoly guy should NEVER be the middle man for you and health. With all the pollution in the environment and food we need things like Cannabidiol and Psilocybin which induce stem cell production in the brain (neurogenesis).

This is 100% true my first time was dark as well but now over a year later I’m a new person and have goals set

At the age of 40 I took mushrooms for the first time and I went from being a labourer on a building site to the siding I want to be a builder and studying for my diploma I went from being a heavy drinker to not drinking at all I went from being depressed to being very happy and being positive around other people and really truly living for the first time because I know what I want thanks to mushrooms Its a cure

To me what the graph shows is you need to take some about every month. And the more positive experiences you have the more likey they will overcome the bad ones.

I have had depression for 25 years. Been dosing with mushrooms for last two years and I literally have never been happier. It is like an oil change for the soul and spirit, and it really helps prioritize the self.

they need to try the same thing with DMT

IF ANYONE IS GOING TO TRY THESE SUBSTANCES REMEMBER TO: 1) Be in a good state of mind 2) Fast to avoid nausea 3) Be in a good environment

Maybe they should try a pleasant outdoor setting for their patients! It’s so much nicer

They should dose these people every three months, to see if their depression gets better after each dose. Only giving them one dose and expecting this plant medicine to be a miracle cure is foolish.

I have taken 130 strong mushrooms trips. I've been practicing Silat and Escrima since 1993 and Taiji, Bagua and Xingyi since 2008. I like practicing slow twisting and circling steps with blades. It nourishes my brain and I circulate my chi to stay healthy and massage my internal organs to stay soft and limber. The first thing I would teach someone is how to relax and root and circulate Qi. After relaxing,, someone can learn basic Gong Fu! I have been sober for 20 years, since the age of 26. My mother sold Ganja and I started smoking with her when I was 9 YO. I have found that the breathing and slow, healthy movements of Tai Chi are helpful for handling Stress and PTSD. I'd like to get a sheet of this LSD I tried. It was really good for tripping.

I personally believe drugs like weed and shrooms are spiritual gifts from God

they teach about 9/11 in schools in even canada now..immagine the bullshit but they dont teach you about this..oneof the most important things a human can find out and learn from

God bless you all brothers and sisters, your pain is my pain as we are all siblings on this big mound of mud we call home. Happiness, peace love and prosperity to you all, have a great life you beautiful people

Just buy mushrooms from the Netherlands. and take them. NO ONE has died in the history of medicine from taking a magic Mushroom.

Im intrigued by the possibility of this working, but i’d be scared to do it. Id be worried about what I would do or say

ayahuasca and shrooms helped me a lot to get over my depression

That room is cool n all but if the hospital had a small indoor butterfly tree room with running stream and space to walk around it would be much better!

I think it should be legal under supervision and treatment centers only.

I've suffer from depression for over 30 years and anxiety from having PTSD!

Took mushrooms 4 months ago. Suffered from depression and axiety troughtout my life and I was just 22. Exersice, meditation, healthy eating and sleep patters nothing helped. I took mushrooms and cried literally.. I went to sleep and I could not belive that I am looking forward to waking up and do something the next day... Now I fell no depression or anxiety ever. This is some magic shit..

Before ever viewing this video i set something similar up in my room and had very similar results. incredible. God bless.

It saved my life, 4 brain surgeries did not help me, but magic mushrooms did. Worlds Most Painful Disease

5 grams cured me of a year long dangerous depression. Subsequent sessions cured me of life long addictions. I go back every couple months for a tune up and it has changed my life for the better. I am not unique.

Shrooms should no longer be illegal. Everyone, help educate the ignorant masses on this subject! Unfortunately these are the people voting for it to be illegal, and they must be convinced otherwise.

Where I can inquire about those type of therapy?

Yes they can ive drank for 8 years and took 2 trips on mushrooms and ive been sober for 12 days

Finally a medical professional who's trying to break the barriers we live in today. Our society might as well be cavemen when it comes to psychedelics. They work. Period. I hope this trial goes far and it becomes legal.

Explore the mind.

I will have to start my Owen research

I'm gonna be honest, having someone sober sitting by me and trying to tether me back to reality would make my trip way worse. Maybe it's just me, but I'd much rather do mushrooms/LSD by myself, and then eventually I might warm to the idea of talking to someone

Personally I've found MDMA to be far more effective at combatting my depression. It can only be taken very infrequently but the afterglow leaves me feeling so much more connected to the people in my life that I understand how much I'm loved or at least needed, which makes day to day life much happier.

i suffer with server depression and anxiety and medication has never helped me i would love to try this though maybe it will end my depression i have had all my life

It's not radical or cutting edge, It literaly just opens up your mind

Aside from the thought of being in a hospital, that seems like it could be pretty comforting. Like a good therapy session.

I lived in Japan for 3 years and found that mushrooms were legal and took them about once a month at psytrance parties. They were very strong( hawaiians)(often lying on the ground at parties until the first wave have worn off) however the whole time I did them in Japan I don't ever remember getting depression where as when I came home depression and anxiety have played a bit of a factor in my life. The thing that is very difficult with mushrooms is getting the dose right. Not enough and they don't do much and then up the dose marginally and my god your away, for about 6-8 hours.

Starting with a good 150 mcg dose! Take them out of this room to a walk in the forest or to a nice beach! It will cure them! I can guarantee..

i cried so hard when he started crying. i experienced that too. mushroom helps a lot of people. they should legalize using it for treatments

I'm sorry, but that medical staff decorated hospital room is scary enough to reverse the positive effects of psilo therapy. 🤭🤭🤭

I feel like they would benefit more if they were to continue microdosing (Fadiman protocol) after the megadose.

PHD or no, these were rather primitive protocols.The results they want follow the "mystical experience". They seemed to actually avoid that. They should either settle for microdosing for a month or for the mystical experience, start at 1/2 gram building up to the mystical dose (2-8 grams) after determining sensitivity.

When season comes I’ll be getting them myself

How Intriguing

It will temporarily treat it for a few days. Your body and mind will calm down. It is the same effects as in after coming out of a swet lodge or after the affects of dmt. There is a peaceful feeling because of the relieved stress. The world seems brighter and happier.

He's spot on about how it's very hard to convey the feeling(s), or lack there of, depression. The thought of suicide comes to mind usually twice a day on average.. it's a miserable existence, I've self medicated for years as well as seeing professionals that tried me on rounds of ssri's and such.. the couple times I taken psilocybe were definitely a treat for a morose mind.

How do I find this room

Finally going in the right direction