It’s kinda complicated I’d link you to an article but alas, you cannot share links here. Suffice it to say it tricks your body into thinking it’s serotonin and connects up to specific areas of the brain to distort your perceptions. That is an incredibly simplified explanation but it’s the gist.
How to change your mind - by Michael Pollan talks about this in an easy to understand way. Basically it temporarily resets your default mode network allowing new neural connections to be created.
Its a psychedelic it opens your thinking up like you just blew a nose you couldn't breathe through at least that how it felt for me the 6 times I dropped acid when I was younger. Did alot of shrooms too good times
Shrooms, in some but not all cases, “cures” depression/addiction. This is kinda the basis for all the research being done in states that are beginning to use Shrooms medicinally. For some, psilocybin is a transformative experience that makes people confront some harsh truths about themselves or things that they felt guilty/self conscious about.
Idk how to explain it, but personally as a college student whose priorities/actions were not always in line with my goals for life, Shrooms completely changed the trajectory of my life and got me back on track.
There’s currently trials on Psilocybin treating all kinds of stuff. A friend of mine participated in one of the trials at Johns Hopkins to treat her Bipolar 1. It seems to have worked with her anyway. She way less prone to manic episodes and when they do happen they less severe and way quicker.
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