<story><title>Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merman_Mike</author><text>Are there accounts of what it&amp;#x27;s like to use psilocybin in a clinical setting?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m imagining tripping in a therapist&amp;#x27;s office. Doesn&amp;#x27;t sound very pleasant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idclip</author><text>Not clinical, but meditative:&lt;p&gt;I use mushrooms sometimes (rarely, very carefully) while meditating.&lt;p&gt;They tend to stimulate the area around the vagus nerve - and since meditation is partly frustration, that in turn triggers “uncomfortable” memories.&lt;p&gt;Also, they seem to smoothen nervous activity? Meditating with closed eyes, often the “black net if colored dots” i see when im sober gets a new more fluid attribute, less choppy.&lt;p&gt;More often than not, intense crying ensues, and quite a bit of unconscious material surfaces and get confronted.&lt;p&gt;One drawback to “scoring mushrooms” for emotional healing is quality is inconsistent -&lt;p&gt;I imagine consistent quality and able hands could greatly help traumatized individuals .. its not a trip in the hedonistic sense, its quite frankly aching to a religious experience</text></comment>
<story><title>Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merman_Mike</author><text>Are there accounts of what it&amp;#x27;s like to use psilocybin in a clinical setting?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m imagining tripping in a therapist&amp;#x27;s office. Doesn&amp;#x27;t sound very pleasant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>Check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;maps.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;maps.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therapy while &amp;quot;tripping&amp;quot; is very different then the &amp;quot;recreational way&amp;quot;. Remember, set and setting are important.</text></comment>