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Many people feel extreme anxiety from the thought of microdosing magic mushrooms. In this show, Dr. Dave sheds some light on how to prevent anxiety from microdosing psilocybin.
Here is the complete transcript to today’s show:
Dr. Dave: (00:00)
Hey there, if you're hesitating, beginning your microdose journey, because you've heard it's going to bring out all this anxiety and you, and you're really afraid. It's gonna make you super anxious. I'm here to help you on this video. Here we go. I'm Dr. Dave, this is not to be taken as medical advice, but I've been microdosing and also thrown in some larger doses over a period of, well over a year, 13, 14, 15 months, something like that now. And I've heard from so many people lately that they've got issues with anxiety, depression, and they really want to try microdosing, but they've heard from other people that it has the potential to make you extremely anxious. And for that reason, these people don't wanna start because they're afraid that it's gonna make them so anxious. They can't do it while I'm here to alleviate your fears. , in the 13, 14, 15, whatever one year plus, , that I've been microdosing.
Dr. Dave: (00:53)
I wanted shared with you how many times I've had anxiety from silocybin anxiety from microdosing, and I've done doses anywhere from a hundred milligrams up to larger than microdose up to maybe two grams. And the nber of times I've had anxiety from using psilocybin or magic mushrooms is zero that's, right? It's never, ever happened to me now. I realize everybody is different, but I really believe, and I don't think anybody knows this for sure. So don't believe everything you hear. I really believe that the reason people become super anxious after microdosing is because it's all in their mind and they, they, it's kind of starting an anxiety attack, but it's not really the, the magic mushrooms. It's not really the psilocybin is doing. It's your mind. That's doing it. I'll give you a couple examples. , before I started microdosing, I had extreme anxiety. I remember one time I was driving my car.
Dr. Dave: (01:48)
I was at an intersection. It was a red light. I was stopped there. And for some reason, I don't know what the reason is. I became super anxious. It was an anxiety attack. I didn't know what to do. It was really, really bad, but was it my car that made me anxious? Was it the actual intersection? Was it other drivers? No, it was my mind. Something was going on in my mind that made me anxious. There was another situation where I was at one of the most peaceful places on the planet. , I was at whole foods. I mean, whole foods is peaceful. And I was, I remember walking over to the checkout line. I had a basket full of groceries. I was going to checkout. And for some reason I became super anxious. Now it was not the whole foods that made me anxious.
Dr. Dave: (02:32)
It was not the cashier. It was not the other people in line. It was me. It was my problem. That's what caused the anxiety. Nothing at the whole foods caused me to be anxious. So the same thing, we're using magic mushrooms. It's when you're microdosing, think about it. If you start and if you're super afraid of this, I'm gonna recommend you start with 50 milligrams. It's a super, super, super low dose. Keep this in mind. There are people that use magic mushrooms. It take 100 times 50 milligrams and, and they survive and they're, and, and so that, so in other words, a five gram dose would be 100 times larger than what you're taking as 50 milligrams. It's not, it's not gonna make you anxious. It's inside of you thinking it's gonna make you anxious, which makes you anxious. If that makes sense. It's not the mushrooms.
Dr. Dave: (03:23)
A microdose is not going to bring out a 50 grand microdose is not gonna bring out all that anxiety.
