[Drako]

I strongly recommend against phychedelics. They are very few people who benefit from such a thing. Psychedelics simply do not have any effect on most people. They reach same insights. They still talk about the already existing same information inside their head. Claiming they have made contact with a "spiritual entity" or reached "god recognition".  And most of those who overdose phychedelics just because they don't have any effect at first end up being  hospitalized. So what's the point?
I don't think this psychedelics thing benefits you this much. When you examine people with high IQ, for example, you realize none of them are taking anything like a special drug, be it psychedelics or any supplement at all. What does that mean? That means you are just doing something else wrong. You need to find that thing. Of course, it will take a lot of time and effort. Nothing hard is easy to achieve. Very similar to the process of gaining muscle. It will be very painful at first. It will be very difficult to lift even the lightest weights. But you need more patience and perseverance. Otherwise, If you keep thinking like this, constantly trying to reach perfect results without putting sufficient effort into it, you will not be able to arrive anywhere. There is no short-cut. At least, not possible when you consider today's primitive advancement of technology when compared with what artificial general intelligence could achieve once found.

@DedSpace
The things I have mentioned above is also valid for you.

Okay, you have to understand that psychedelics are unlike any man-made medication. And for most people, that's their last option for recovering from an illness that can lead to suicide. It has provided many addicts and depression patients relief or even a cure from their illness, even though they may have been unresponsive to previous treatments.

And I'm not sure what you're on about when you say "overdose." It is nearly impossible to overdose on any psychedelic. Even if you're a new user who refuses to do any research on dosage and just decides to take a wild amount of a psychedelic, like three tabs of LSD, you won't overdose. You'll feel extremely strong effects, but no overdose. That's why I said look for clinical trials. That'll guarantee your safety.

What are you talking about?

Unlike man-made medication? Some of them are natural, some of them pretty artificial. When it comes to the overdosing, it depends on what psychedelics you use. If you take mushroom, for example, which is naturally poisonous, you need to be careful about the amount you take on your "trip". Even when you take LSD, overdosing causes "bad trip". If you choose to take less, you'll have little to no effect. Most of the time, maybe all the time, psychedelics do not cure any psychiatric illnesses. It can't resolve excessively heavy brain sickness, it is claimed to solve mild mental illnesses even though I highly doubt if it is really psychedelics that cure these other than placebo.  It is the right opposite of what you have said. What logical use could psychedelics have other than confusion, sorry, "deep insights"?  The reason depression or obsession patients can't cure their illnesses with psychedelics is because they have set up a lot of wrong, inefficient, misleading, twisted connections and accumulated domain-specific dopamin addictions that you can't target directly apart from holistic targeting. Not so different from taking a lot of methylphenidate instead of patiently trying find out what you did wrong and lost your mind. Just because the the person in question can't pay attention to things he would like to, she stupidly takes more and more of these sorts of dangerous drugs. Your brain will burn. That's very similar to loading a very inefficient computer program to a better hardware instead of changing those inefficient algorithms. If there is an infinite loop, you could even damage the CPU. So what's the point of psychedelics? Even the lightest psychiatric drugs can lead to sudden deaths let alone terrifying and sometimes permanent side effects once abused. Encouraging random people to use psychedelics is a terrible idea. Even if that person's illness is seemingly untreatable, psychedelics is last means you should resort to, maybe never. Your understanding of biology is limited. So think twice, talk once.

That's why you should only ingest psilocybin mushrooms. And to get to a dangerous level of psilocybin, you would need to take grams of it. And many grams of psilocybin, is a lot to ingest. You won't overdose on psilocybin mushrooms.

This is what 1.5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms looks like:


And here's a quote from Wikipedia stating a lethal dose of psilocybin: "The toxicity of psilocybin is low. In rats, the median lethal dose (LD50) when administered orally is 280 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg), approximately one and a half times that of caffeine. When administered intravenously in rabbits, psilocybin's LD50 is approximately 12.5 mg/kg.[58] Psilocybin comprises approximately 1% of the weight of Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms,[59] and so nearly 1.7 kilograms (3.7 lb) of dried mushrooms, or 17 kilograms (37 lb) of fresh mushrooms, would be required for a 60-kilogram (130 lb) person to reach the 280 mg/kg LD50 value of rats.[8] Based on the results of animal studies, the lethal dose of psilocybin has been extrapolated to be 6 grams, 1000 times greater than the effective dose of 6 milligrams.."

There have also been reports of long-term side effects from LSD, such as Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD). This can happen after one bad-trip, but like I said, if you're under professional supervision, a professional would take you off the drug.

And giving "random advice" to a person who may feel like the end is near, with no other options left, is a good idea. It could save a person's life.

[DedSpace]

Thanks to everyone who replied. I have recently started exercising and joined a martial arts dojo. I believe the exercise is doing a lot to boost my confidence. I have also started to date a woman who's been through something very similar to me, and we have clicked - no anxiety with her and I can be open with how I feel.

I think I will stay away from psychedelics because like I said in the original post, I see images of myself hanging. I do not think I should take anything that can make things more vivid or powerful as I do not think I will be able to handle it

[scargo]

money
have sex
buy a wife


that sound like happiness for me, you can immitate, and maybe someday the depression will pass