How bad are shrooms for the brain?

I've been informed that shrooms aren't that bad for your brain. I'm talking like brain damage wise, like how alcohol kills brain cells and shit.

 

shrooms are good for you!!!

but they can be bad too when it comes to mental illnessess

i think?

 

Shrooms are not physically damaging, AKA no brain damage.

Freom erowid....
There are no known long-term effects of psilocybin mushrooms. Psychoactive mushrooms have been used for thousands of years by several cultures and there are no recorded long-term adverse health effects related to their use.

There are rumors about pretty much all psychedelic drugs causing reproductive harm...nearly all of these are false. It is a common scare tactic used to dissuade people from experimenting.

 

yes, indeed. mushrooms are completely nontoxic and cause no physical damage to any part of the body, brain cells included.

most of the other outrageous claims are false, too.

the only caveat i'd give is that its possible that the claims that mushrooms can complicate preexisting manifest or latent mental conditions, and can bring about premature onset of hereditary mental conditions. a person of sound and healthy mind is very unlikely to experience something like this - but someone with mental problems already or who is inevitably going to develop some form of mental problems later in life may suffer negative psychological effects from tripping. but this isnt brain damage or any type of toxicity.

 

agreed

 

I think mushrooms are relatively harmless, but I have to play devil's advocate here.

People who do a lot of LSD can end up perma-tripping. Isn't this also theoretically possible with mushrooms, since the effects are so similar to those of LSD?

 

well i hear people say this often enough, its a very widely believed idea, but in 8-9 years of reading anything and everything i could get my hands on related to drugs and in particular psychedelics, i've not ONCE encountered a single =->documented<-= case of this.

now to be fair i've been reading up so long and have smoked enough pot and drank enough beer that some of what i've read has been forgotten.

so if you can give indisputable evidence that there are documented psychiatric/medical cases of such phenomena, please take the time to do so. and HPPD doesnt count.

however, i'm tempted to say that it just plain doesnt happen.

 

btw that challenge is open to anybody. if such things exist, i'd like to know about it.

however, we are talking about legitimate, DOCUMENTED instances, not hearsay or anecdotal evidence. "my cousin had a friend who ate acid and now he thinks he's a glass of orange juice" DOESNT count!

 

I honestly have come to believe that people describe their HPPD symptoms, and since the masses are ignorant, they think that's a perma-trip.

 

Why doesn't HPPD count? When I said perma-tripping, I didn't mean like, you're on 600 mikes of acid for your entire sober existence. All I meant was that it is quite evident that LSD can induce permanent/long term changes in the brain, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if shrooms could too.

 

I should also add that for me, an article like the one below proves that LSD can rearrange your brain in profound ways, enough that I would wonder if shrooms can do the same.

http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=8832

 

My best friend ate magic mushrooms about 6 different times. The last time he did he had a very bad trip. Afterwards he was never the same. Even now (2 years later) he is very depressed and can't think clearly. He is certain that it is because of the mushrooms. I just started a new job and I met a guy told me that he too has never been the same since taking magic mushrooms. He has been clinically depressed every since. He has tried anti-depressants, electro shock therapy, and psycho-therapy, and nothing has helped. My friend has also tried many things without any help.

DO NOT TAKE MAGIC MUSHROOMS. YOU ARE PLAYING RUSSIAN RULET WITH YOUR BRAIN!

 

Magic Mushroom CAN permanently damage your brain!

My best friend has permanent brain damage as a result of taking magic mushrooms. He was never depressed a day in his life before this. And depression does not run in his family. The first 5 times he ate the mushrooms he had no negative effects from it. The 6th time he had a very bad trip. He has been severely depressed and unable to think clearly ever since. There is a guy I work with who said the same thing happened to him. He said he has tried anti-depressants, electro shock therapy, and psychotherapy, and nothing has helped him. EATING MAGIC MUSHROOMS IN PLAYING RUSSIAN RULET WITH YOUR BRAIN!

 

^ lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho2d1HxtXfk"]Terence McKenna on Mushrooms - YouTube

 

Provide us some sources that will confirm this. You won't find one because it's a lie. Reminds me of the days when they used to say LSD caused chromosome damage, yet an entire generation of hippies gave birth to healthy children.

 

There is a guy who lives in the city I used to live in dubbed 'Acid Andy'
He was confronted by the 5-0 while in possession of a fairly large blotter sheet and when he noticed them he ran. I don't know the exact details but it was supposed that he stashed it in his shoe or it might have been his hat. Point is that the blotter had gotten wet from the rain and his running in it and he absorbed a massive dose of LSD through his skin. Now he's a mental cause albeit still a very nice guy I hear and there isn't any denying his condition.

Of course, how he ended up like that could all just be some bunk stoner rumor floating around the university he stays at.

 

^ sounds like SLC Punk to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRtvK4KkvTg"]Slc Punk!- Sean Acid (español subtitulos) - YouTube

 

If you truly believe that don't eat them yourself. But also don't repeat widely discredited propaganda, educate yourself a bit instead.
Also, shouting it in caps doesn't make it so.

 

Why would I lie about knowing 2 people who are clinically depressed now - after eating magic mushrooms? I have no reason to lie. What happened to these people is that the mushrooms permanently altered their brain chemistry. As I said, my best friend said nothing happened the first 5 times he ate the mushrooms. It was after the 6th time, that this happened. I'm just trying to warn people. If you don't believe me, go ahead and keep eating them. What do I care?

 

Show us prove it was the mushrooms that fucked them up in the head.You can't.