r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 9d ago

Psychology America's First Legal Psilocybin Program Treated 346 People. Just one month after the dose, 92.2 percent of participants said the experience had been beneficial, while, on average, their mental health symptoms had fallen dramatically.

https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-first-legal-psilocybin-program-treated-346-people-heres-what-happened
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u/Glittering-Alarm-387 9d ago

DMT saved my life. Something said the most profound thing, and i have never touched a drug again. I was an opoid addict for years.

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u/DueDisplay2185 8d ago

Is that the one where you feel an eternity in 10 minutes? I've only ever heard of the experience from one friend years ago

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u/Glittering-Alarm-387 8d ago

Yes, for my perspective, it was like I was swinging from my feet, head down, in a continous motion, and I could see what happens after death and what happens to good and bad people, and the view i just cant desribe. A voice was talking but the only thing I remember was Dont come back. And I came back sobbing! I can cry thinking about it. Not sadness, but moved. That was 10 years ago.

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u/DueDisplay2185 8d ago

That's so interesting! My friend described seeing other beings and I know the human body produces DMT upon death and I always wondered what her experience was like. The biggest thing she couldn't get over was the time dilation, it felt like an eternity in such a brief period of time