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Wellness Wednesday for March 29, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

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  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Hmmm... this is pretty tough. You general want to trust people a lot before you do psychedelics with them. My strategy was to read a ton about psychedelics, books like this and reading trip reports on Erowid and other sites. Then I just tripped by myself and over time found others with similar inclinations.

I would also say Meetup is a good app to find curious, interesting people. Look for book clubs with heterodox views or similar groups.

Then I just tripped by myself

Did you need to know someone to get your hands on the stuff?

I did, but you don’t necessarily. You can order them from dark web markets, just Google Gwern’s discussion for a guide.

Alternatively if your risk tolerance is slightly higher, and the risk really is pretty small unless you’re reselling, you could go to a site like https://www.mushmoremushmore.com/