I used to do loads of shrooms, when I was around 17-23 we did shrooms or LSD aprox. 3x a week for 6 years and it was completely crazy life period.... In the end I almost wasnt able to tell reality from the trip, so I was like fuck it, thats already too much and stopped... Then I was experiencing flashbacks for almost 2 years (when You are clean and suddenly You feel like your high af and tripping balls) which was def. not cool when happened when I was in the meeting for example .. Not cool at all...
Overall its like with everything, over-use and You can fk you up real bad.. Stay in the "moderate" use and Youll be awarded ...
As for the
Jc420bigbud post.... From my experience being aggressive, self harm etc. on the "trip high" is always connected to some psych illness that the "user" doesnt know about(or ignored). Its not the shrooms fault, they just showed the potencional of psych illness for that spec. user. Also I cant recommend using when having some issues in real life, because You can 100% count on having "bad trip" then. And not having experienced psychonaut around when this happens to someone is just a problem waiting to happen...
For example, when my gfriend almost died because of her tumor around the heart (which we didnt know about at that time) snapped and she almost died (5% chance of survival on the fist day) I would have 100% killed myself on full dose because of that deep depression and "shes gonna die" feeling (and I know my ways to get back on track, but even I as an experienced psychonaut/trip guide wouldnt risk it in this situation), but microdosing was perfect and it got me in the ideal state of mind... But thats quite logical..
Right now I feel that perfect/proper use of hallucinogens (for me) is :
-"Microdosing for the win. (1 week microdosing, then 3weeks nothing.. rinse and repeat)"
or/and
-"Once a year Im doing proper shrooming session (or lsd), just to get "in sync with my inner self" (at least thats how I call it
)... "
and obvious advices
-If your tripping for the first time (or under the tenth time) always get some experienced psychonaut with You. NEVER do that alone, its just a stupid unnecessary risk...
-never do full trip dose when depressed or having some schizophrenia, etc. issues... Microdose only.
-always remember, when things go south, swallow vitamin B3 + C and Youll feel better in 10-15 minutes. works like a charm... (or puke and then drink at least half litre of milk, similar effect, but you need to puke first so your stomach is working faster.)
-treat psychedelics with enough respect
-MAIN ADVICE (mostly used when doing shrooms/lsd alone, but applicable everytime) : always remember to repeat to yourself : !!Its not real, its not reality. Its only in my head!! (Edit: but not like hysterically like it sounds to me when Im reading it back :-D just smile, believe that its not real and take a deep calm breath ;-) ) when You start to experience something You dont like... never forget that or you will startle yourself... . this will get you from most of the issues easily and it should be first thing to remember(I know that sometimes its hard for a new user, but it saved me countless times ...)