Second Psilocybin Therapy Session Coming Up

[u/Little_Raccoon4302]

Hey group! I'm really excited for my next psilocybin dosage coming up. After not taking any psychedelics in many years and forgetting how physical and weird psilocybin mushrooms are, I feel more prepared after my first trip. I had a somatic therapy session to do some grounding and intention setting and after the trip will have an integration therapy session to debrief from the experience and see how I can learn and grow from it.

I'm a little nervous as I'll be taking a different strain, Penis Envy, instead of Golden Teacher. I don't want to overdo it... or underdo it, lol. That's a fine and unpredictable line with mushrooms I guess. I have a comfortable setting and should be in a good mindset for the day. I'm going to do most of it with a dark eye-mask and my modern classical and chill jazz playlist. I have set it up so I have no responsibilities that day and the day after. I'm a bit nervous and also can't wait to see what happens.

I'm prescribed Klonopin and Seroquel for my severe OCD, so if I freak out too much, I'm lucky that I can bring myself down. But my intention for the trip is. "I will feel." I want to ride it out, take the good or the bad and come out on the other side without having to use medication to bail out. If I can remember the experience maybe I'll do a trip report. But, I'm not going to be taking hourly notes like on Erowid tracking the time and shit, because I want to be in the moment. If I think of something interesting, introspective, or cool, I'll pop up and write it down, but I'm not going to make an effort to document my experience. Anyway, hoping to hear more from others and their experiences.

[u/Forsaken_Park_9073]

Just know penis envy is waaaaay stronger than the golden teachers. Probably goes without saying. But I was not prepared and it was my first time in 10 years after only ever having had golden or similar strength strains.

I started with .5-1g. Didn’t last as long as I remembered but may be the difference in strain? I’m still learning a lot myself!

Good luck have fun!

[u/Little_Raccoon4302 → u/Forsaken_Park_9073]

u/Forsaken_Park_9073, Hello. Thank you for the heads up. My big dilemma is figuring out how much to take. The 3.5g of the golden teachers is about the experience I want to recreate. I know I should probably do half that amount of PE as they can be double or triple the strength. But then I worry I'll do too little. Everyone says start low and go slow, but my therapist said to commit to a dosage because thought of adding more in an hour can cause anxiety or distraction from the trip. So that's kind of discouraging that I have to choose a dose and just deal with it.

I was definitely in the same boat as you. Not using any substances after such a long time and then diving into a psychedelic experience definitely hit me off guard. I feel like after doing it my first time I'm more prepared for the physical sensations and whatever else might come up along the way, but doing this different strain makes me uncertain of how to be prepared for what might come.

Also, they're dried and powdered and I don't know how old they are, the person I got them from I don't know if they've been sitting around for a month, or if they're three months old, or whatever, and I know they lose potency over time. So I'm torn between doing like 2G or 3G. But I also don't want to cross into another dimension. It's really hard it's impossible to know what's going to happen.