"I found joy and passion and positivity for the first time in my life. And I know it came from psychedelics."
Can microdosing psychedelics improve your mental health?
Can microdosing psychedelics improve your mental health?
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00:00People are using psilocybin these days in what they call microdosing.
00:06I found joy and passion and positivity for the first time in my life.
00:11I know it came from psychedelics.
00:18Talking about microdosing psychedelics as a medicine for about a year now,
00:23I've been intrigued by this new development because it has the potential to become groundbreaking medicine.
00:29To be able to say I'm a positive, optimistic person, microdosing really gave me that.
00:35I could not imagine my life without finding this therapeutic.
00:50Microdosing is actually taking a sub-perceptual dose of a psychedelic substance.
00:59It's a drug that can be used to improve the quality of life.
01:08I probably had my first nervous breakdown when I was in third grade.
01:12I was very young, and I pretty much knew my whole life something was very wrong with me.
01:16When you get diagnosed bipolar, you look it up, and it looks like a death sentence.
01:21There's not very many options, and you also can't find many people who are recovered and happy and thriving in life.
01:28I just constantly struggled.
01:30I was on traditional pharmaceuticals for seven years.
01:32I took everything under the sun from Wobble Trangle, McDoll, Prozac, you name it.
01:37I did it.
01:38I had to have an abortion because I was on the pharmaceuticals.
01:41And when that happened, it really was this huge, like, aha moment for me of what is actually in this?
01:49That's when I really developed my brand, Kush Queen, and I really developed my products
01:53because I used that to wean off of pharmaceuticals, and I made this very firm decision that I was not going to take pharmaceuticals
02:03and that I was going to have to find a way, whether it be traditional therapy, coaching, or alternative medicine.
02:10Three years ago, my mom got a brain tumor.
02:13My business exploded.
02:15My brand was getting national media.
02:17We're in Urban Outfitters.
02:19I went from running a business in a garage to basically having 20 employees very quickly, and I was a complete train wreck.
02:27All my dreams came true, and I was still f***ing miserable.
02:31Well, you can't say, like, look at me.
02:33I'm in New York Fashion Week, and I hate my life, and I want to die.
02:37But it's what happened to me.
02:39I started hearing rumblings about microdosing.
02:41I heard, you know, Silicon Valley, people were using it.
02:45And then I started microdosing protocols.
02:47I started experimenting on myself with different strains of mushrooms.
02:51It literally changed everything.
02:54Oh, sorry. I don't want to get up.
02:55I don't want to cry.
02:56And after I started to really see, like, this butterfly effect in my life, my business was better.
03:04I was better.
03:05I went into nature.
03:06After being afraid my whole life, I realized it was time to go after every single thing that I was afraid of.
03:13What I really believe it does is it builds courage in the brain.
03:15And it's a tool to help you peek over the other side to what is actually really there in life.
03:42Why microdosing is new or seems new is because, well, partially because the psychedelic movement obviously has been underground now for a substantial amount of time.
04:00In 2011, James Fadiman, who is considered the godfather of microdosing, he released microdosingpsychedelics.com.
04:08Thousands of people started experimenting on themselves in what is referred to as citizen science.
04:38This is why I think it's going to be such a pivotal moment for the mental health community to come around to understand, because I think what it teaches people is that they're really in charge of their own bodies and that we really are in charge of our own healing.
05:08Bye.