My Thoughts On Psychedelics For Mental Health

All right, this is entry seven in my video journal. It is September 2nd today. I wanted to make this entry about psychedelics, and my experience with them, and my experience with psychedelic therapy, which I did. Not recently, that was probably, it was last year, last summer. Yeah, a few things I want to touch on right away. If you watch any of my other videos, you know that I'm like a conservative, like Christian, typically considered more like a right-leaning kind of guy. And there's a stigma around psychedelic use, especially amongst conservative types, that they have it in their head that it's just all bad. I guess that goes back to the whole war on drugs, Reagan era. They still have that in their head from back then. So yeah, my experience with psychedelics, I want to just quickly touch on and go a brief overview of my history with them, just so you kind of know where I'm coming from. The first psychedelic, first time I ever did psychedelics was DMT. It was a full-blown, max dose, breakthrough DMT trip. That was my first ever psychedelic experience. I was 16. Me and some buddies drove out into the country, and we all just were doing DMT. And that was my first psychedelic experience. And after that, I tried mushrooms after that. And the first time I did mushrooms, I actually combined mushrooms and MDMA, which there's a name for that. I forget what it's called. But yeah, I did that. I did mushrooms a few more times after that. Then this new drug started coming around called 2C-B, which is one of those designer, a bit more of a hard-to-get-your-hands-on kind of drug. But I ended up getting a hookup for it, and could get unlimited quantities for extremely cheap. Yeah, I did that quite a bit, screwed around with that, which in hindsight, I didn't really enjoy it. I was just pretty much doing it at the time because it was available and cheap, and I was like, hey, that's something to do. But yeah, it's really not a very good drug, 2C-B. It almost made me feel like I was a tweaker, or you get twitchy, and it's almost like you're on meth or something. It's very gross. Yeah, I never did acid. Acid is the only main psychedelic that I haven't done, just because it lasts too long, and I don't know. I never wanted to dedicate an entire day to just tripping. It's not great. Yeah, my experience with psychedelic therapy. After I had quit smoking weed, if you watch my other videos, you hear me talk about this. I quit smoking weed in the spring of 2022, and it triggered almost a full-blown mental breakdown. My doctor put me on Zoloft, like an SSRI, to try to get me back under control. It started working after about two weeks, and then about two weeks after that, then it stopped working because they upped my dose, and then I just felt like a zombie. Tried going back down in dose, and it just didn't work anymore. It only worked for those two weeks. I did that for three months, and eventually I just told my doctor, I'm just going to go off this stuff, and I did. During this time when I was transitioning or tapering off of Zoloft, I went to a fire. I got invited to a fire by an old friend of mine that was back in town. He was backpacking around New Zealand for years, and he was back in town for a while. We have a fire, and he pulls out this bag of mushrooms. I hadn't done mushrooms at this point in many, many years, like seven, eight years probably. I'd really just kind of forgotten what it was even like, because back then, back when I was a teenager, I was just doing psychedelics for fun. He pulls out this bag of mushrooms, and he gives me some. I took maybe a gram, not a huge amount, just enough to ... You're not going to be getting visuals from a gram of mushrooms, but you'll still ... You'll get the mental effects, and your thought process definitely will change after a gram of mushrooms. I took this gram of mushrooms, and I was sitting around the fire. I realized after a while of sitting there that I had no anxiety, because there was a bunch of old friends of mine at this fire that I hadn't talked to in many years. Not most of them, but some of them I had pretty bad blood with. I was feeling quite a bit of anxiety at this fire. But I was noticing that after I took these mushrooms, I felt nothing. Not nothing, but I felt good. I felt happy. I felt healthy. I didn't feel intoxicated or inebriated from the mushrooms. I wasn't tripping. I was totally sober, but I just was calm. It was amazing, something I hadn't felt in a very long time. For whatever reason, maybe just because I wanted to enjoy this experience by myself, I left the fire. It was getting late anyway. There's a lake near where we were, so I drove down to the lake. I was driving around, walking around the lake for a while and just thinking. I distinctly remember I was driving ... This is just before I got to the lake. I was driving, and you have to drive through a campsite to get to the lake. There was somebody in the campsite, and they just looked kind of weird, just the way they were dressed and just whatever. This looked like a weirdo. I remember thinking for a split second, I thought, oh, that person looks really dumb or whatever, something like that, some negative, mean thought. And then instantly, my brain was like, why would you say that? That's just a normal ... That's just a person. You have no idea anything about their situation. That all just flooded into my head instantly. As soon as I thought something negative, it's like the mushrooms took over my brain and corrected me like, hey, you shouldn't be thinking like that. That's not acceptable to be judging people in that way. And I was just like, holy crap. I forgot how powerful mushrooms are, the way that they can change your thought process for the better. So yeah, that reopened my eyes to the potentials of psychedelics. So I started doing a whole bunch of research. I picked up a bunch of mushrooms of my own, and there's two things I wanted to try. I wanted to try microdosing for anxiety, essentially treating small microdoses of mushrooms like they're SSRIs. And I did that for a couple of months, and it worked really well initially. For the first couple of months, I was taking maybe 0.15, I think, every morning, I think is what I was taking before work. And I'd go to work and I'd feel great. Very, very little anxiety, much more confidence in the way I would talk to people. Yeah, I just felt good, just happy. Then I started noticing some, after an extended period of use of these microdosing mushrooms, I noticed some downsides. The first thing I noticed is that my heart, I started getting a lot of heart palpitations. I have an arrhythmia, so I have an existing heart condition. So I don't know if this would happen for everybody, but I started having a lot of heart palpitations and stuff. And then I noticed that when I was at work, I was feeling good from the microdosing, but I was noticing that I had very little motivation to actually do any work. It was almost the mushrooms were making me lazy, because the mushrooms were making me feel good, which I guess was telling my brain that, oh, you feel good. That means you've accomplished something. That means you can just take it easy. So you almost do need a little bit of angst to perform your job at a high level. And the mushrooms completely take that angst away, and then you don't have as much drive and motivation to do hard work. So that is one downside that was not great. It definitely reduced my performance at work. But if you're really, really struggling with your mental health, that's a trade-off you might be willing to make, depending on your job and everything. And yeah, another main reason I wanted to make this video is just to try to break the stigma around psychedelic use, especially amongst conservative or right-leaning types. It definitely seems to be getting better. When I was younger, if anyone mentioned any kind of psychedelics, everyone would just start scoffing and be like, oh, that's the worst thing ever. That's evil. People would say that kind of stuff all the time. And they have no idea what they're talking about. They've never looked into any of this. They don't know anyone who's ever done psychedelics, at least that they know of. So yeah, the stigma is just, it's very damaging because psychedelics, and this kind of gets us to our next point, psychedelics, when used responsibly, are an extremely powerful and effective tool. And when used irresponsibly, can absolutely ruin your life. So it's a double-edged sword in that way. Just like most things, I guess, even like weed that I recently quit. If you watch my last video, weed can help with all kinds of stuff. There's a million uses for that plant, but there's also a million ways you can abuse the plant and let it take over your life and it will control you. So yeah, just like anything, like sugar or just food in general, or just anything, you need to treat it with respect. All right, what else do I have here? Oh yeah, and you need to be honest with yourself too about why you're using psychedelics. If you're taking mushrooms every weekend and just taking mushrooms and playing video games and just doing that kind of stuff, you're probably not, and telling yourself that you're doing it to help your mental health and you need it, that's not right. You're abusing that substance. And that will screw you up in the long run too. Psychedelics are so powerful and they have such an effect on your brain. If you're just chronically using them, your brain is not designed to handle that. It can't handle that. I don't care who you are, you can't handle that. Yeah, be honest with yourself about why you're doing them. And also the actual process of psychedelic therapy, you don't just take mushrooms and then just sit there. That's not how it works. How I did my psychedelic therapy, I did four sessions of psychedelic therapy. It started off with one gram. What you do is you sit down with a piece of paper and a pen and you write down your intentions for this experience you're about to have. I'd write down things along the lines of, all right, my intentions, I want to get to the root cause and try to identify what is causing my anxiety. I think that's probably what I wrote down on my first trip, I don't remember, or my first psychedelic therapy session. I wrote down something along those lines and then you take the mushrooms and you don't want to just be doing things that are distracting you. You want to kind of get somewhere quiet while you're doing it and just let the mushrooms do their thing and just let your thoughts come to the front. If you've never done mushrooms, that is a big thing that mushrooms do. They almost unlock a certain filter that's built into your brain. It's hard to describe, but when you do them, it allows you to think about things that you wouldn't normally repress and push down because they're uncomfortable to think about. You don't want to think about them. Your brain will automatically repress them. But when you take mushrooms, that filter comes off and you can think clearly and comfortably about very often traumatic things in your life. It allows you to think about them almost from an outside perspective, like you're looking at yourself, analyzing yourself from the outside kind of thing. It's almost like being able to open up Task Manager on your computer and just see all the background programs that are running and just being able to analyze everything and see what's going on. That's kind of what doing mushrooms is like or what doing psychedelic therapy is like. It's like you're accessing a backdoor into a program, like into the software that is your brain. It's really fascinating. The first psychedelic therapy session I did was one gram. I waited two weeks between each session because in order for your tolerance to mushrooms to reset completely, you need to wait at least two weeks between. I would do it every two weeks. Two weeks after the first one, I did two gram. I bumped it up by a gram each time, so two grams the second time. Again, I took my piece of paper and wrote down the things I learned from the first session, plus the things I wanted to improve on still. I did that, two grams. Each of these times, by the way, I was just in my house. I wasn't going out into the woods like some kind of hippie or anything. I was just in my house like doing this. The third session, three grams. That's when things start to get a little more intense. At that point, that had been the most mushrooms I'd ever taken. I'd taken three grams before. These mushrooms just were stronger. That was definitely the hardest I tripped on mushrooms at the third therapy session. That's a very fuzzy period of my life because I was going through a lot back then. I don't remember exactly what I experienced from that until we get to the fourth trip where I did four grams. That one I remember quite distinctly because that was a pretty intense experience. I took the four grams. I wanted to try how they do it in actual medical clinical settings when they do psychedelic therapy. They'll give you an injection or a capsule of psilocybin. They put on headphones with this specific playlist of music, which I found that playlist on YouTube. I think it's on the Johns Hopkins University YouTube channel. They have a psychedelic therapy playlist there. It's mostly just tribal chanting kind of music. That stuff is crazy. When you're on four grams of mushrooms, and you have a blindfold on, you're laying down, and you've got tribal chanting stuff playing in your ears, the images that show up behind your eyelids are nuts. I was seeing full-on battle scenes. It started off like that, and then things started to take a dark turn at one point. It was a lot of cool tribal images, and things like people running around the jungle, and spears. It was really cool, the stuff I was seeing. Really ancient stuff, like hieroglyphs, and symbols, and runes, and just cool, cool stuff. Things started to take a dark turn, and it went from this cool stuff to almost like gore, like seeing dead animals, and mutilated people, and just horrible, disturbing things. Then that's the point where I took off the blindfold, because as soon as you take the blindfold off and open your eyes, all that goes away. Then you're not getting the closed-eye visuals. Those are called closed-eye visuals. You're now having open-eye visuals, which you're seeing patterns on your wall, like shaking, and moving, and warping, and twisting, and changing color. It's not scary. If you are having a bad time like that, your trip starts to go downhill and get dark, that doesn't necessarily mean you should stop it, because that darkness in your trip might be trying to tell you something. That might be an indicator of a deeper underlying issue you might have. For me personally, I did have a takeaway from when I was seeing all those dead animals and stuff, when that started happening. The first thing that popped in my head is, I'm seeing all this because these are all the animals that I have killed in my life. I used to hunt a lot and stuff. These are all the animals that I've killed in my life. Is this like mushroom is trying to tell me that I shouldn't be doing that anymore? I shouldn't be hunting and stuff anymore? I personally don't believe that. I have no moral issues with hunting. As long as you're doing it for food, like you eat the animal, trophy hunting is... Unless you're doing one of these African trophy hunts where you're paying a lot of money for it, and then the money gets donated to conservation. I see that. I get that. But if you're just going out and shoot... If one of these people goes out and shoots a buck every fall, or poaches a buck every fall, cuts his head off, and throws the body in the creek, you're an asshole. You shouldn't be able to hunt. That's not right. Anyway, that's off on a tangent again. Another thing I wanted to touch on was the whole big pharma aspect of this. Another reason for the stigma around psychedelics is a lot of that is perpetrated by big pharma. I live in Canada. Big pharma is not an American thing. We have it here too. Actually, I pulled up a statistic earlier. Canadians consume 2.1% of all prescription medication worldwide, while only making up 0.5% of the population. That's a crazy statistic. There's not many people that live here. We have 40 million people that live in this entire country. We take over 2% of the entire worldwide prescription drugs. Big pharma is definitely alive and well in Canada. Since they legalized weed here, these companies and big pharma are starting to make money off of it. They're starting to realize that it's not that bad of a thing. Things are starting to take that direction with mushrooms as well. In BC, you can buy mushrooms in stores already, that kind of thing. They have dispensaries for them and stuff. I think we are headed in a better direction, but big pharma is a lot of the cause of why there is such a stigma around psychedelic use. Another thing that's super important is if you are going to try any of this stuff, do thorough research first. You don't just go into stuff blind and just take drugs and see what happens. That's a really bad idea, especially nowadays when so many things are laced with who knows what. You don't know where it's coming from. Be careful. Do your research about it first. Know where you're getting it from. Don't just buy drugs from people you don't know. Either buy them online. There's a million websites that you can just buy mushrooms and deliver it right to your house. This is the 21st century. You can just do that. If you have a stoner friend or you know somebody that smokes weed, chances are they have a hookup for mushrooms. Ask them. They might be able to help you out. That pretty much covers it for my notes. Anything else I was going to talk about? I can maybe touch on DMT briefly. I kind of want to tell the story of my first ever DMT trip because that's kind of relevant for this video. I did DMT maybe 10 times between the ages of 16 and 18. Something like that. Where was I going with this again? My first DMT trip. Me and some buddies all went out to the country in the middle of nowhere. I didn't even know what DMT was. I'd never even heard of it. I didn't know anything about it. We get there, but my buddy pulls out this baggie of the DMT and he packs me a bowl in his bong with the DMT in it. If you know dosages and stuff, it was about 50 milligrams, which is about a max dose that you would want to do of DMT. That's a breakthrough, almost guaranteed breakthrough dose. I smoked this DMT. I take the first rip, hold it in. By the time I had blown that, I held it in for about 10 seconds and blew it out. The first thing I noticed, it tasted like burnt plastic. It tasted really bad. The second thing I noticed, as soon as I blew it out, my ears started to ring. I was like, oh, that's kind of weird. Then I kind of stopped for a second and my buddy was like, no, quick, take another one. I was like, okay. I didn't know what I was doing. I was like, okay. I go and I spark the bowl again and I take another one. By the time I had inhaled that one, things were starting to go black from the outside. It was like a straw closing like this, like my vision. My ears were now ringing so loudly that I couldn't hear anything else. It was deafening. It was so loud. Then all of a sudden, there was a little pop and then everything just went black. I was conscious but unconscious at the same time. My ears were still kind of working. Everything was black. According to the guys I was with, I was just slumped over in the car seat like this. My eyes closed. I looked like I was unconscious but I could still somewhat hear. It felt like I was maybe only unconscious like this for two or three minutes but it felt like 10, 15, 20 minutes. Every what I perceived to be a couple of minutes, I would hear a single word that somebody would say in the car and that word would just be a random word like about. It would just repeat about, about, about, about. It would just go like that over and over and over again and slowly fade off. Then another word would come up, the, the, the, the. It would just trail off. Every now and then, I would just keep hearing these random words that people were saying in the car around me. My brain would just pick one of these words and just repeat them over and over and over again. It would slowly fade out. That happened for, yeah, it felt like 10, 15 minutes, 20 minutes. Then I come to, my head is slumped down like this when I open my eyes. The first thing I saw was my hand like this on my thigh, just sitting on my thigh like that. My hand, I noticed my hand was, at least to me, it looked white as a sheet of paper, like white, white. That white is what my hand looked like in my vision. I was like, whoa. I go to pull my hand, move my hand. Everywhere where my hand had been touching on my leg, there was like a glowing neon white light coming out of my fingertips and sticking to my leg. It was like, it was like the light was acting like some kind of goop that was just like, it was super weird. Everywhere I moved, there was trails of light coming off my fingers. It would just hang there in the air and slowly fade away. It was super, super cool. As soon as I got over that, I looked up through the windshield of the car, because I was in the passenger seat. Sorry. Yeah, I looked up through the windshield of the car. I noticed that there was a tree right in front of the car. I noticed a bunch of little, the tree didn't quite look right. I started looking a bit closer. I could see little lines of almost energy, for lack of a better term, I don't know what else to call it, coming up from the ground into the trunk of the tree and out through all the branches into each leaf of the tree. Then the leaves of the trees were like, there was like this mist coming off of them that I could see. I didn't know at the time what I was seeing, but years later, I was watching a documentary about trees for whatever reason. They were explaining how trees work, how it pulls water from the ground up to the tree, through the branches, into the leaves, and then the water evaporates out of the leaves, which is exactly what I saw on DMT before ever having any knowledge of how a tree works, really. I realized, and I instantly remembered back to that DMT trip, I was like, that's exactly what I saw during that trip. Which begs the question, how can a substance you take show you something that you don't know? Because like a dream, for example, you can't dream about something that you've never seen before. If you see a person's face in a dream, you have at least, at the very least, seen that person in passing somewhere. Like you can't dream about something and visualize something that you have never seen. So how can this substance, you take it, and it shows you something you've never seen, you have no knowledge of. So that really was quite interesting. At that point, I'd looked at this tree and been like, oh wow, that's crazy. And then I opened the car door, and right away, all my buddies start yelling at me, like, hey, stay in the car, don't go out there. It was the middle of the night, and we were out in the middle of a field, like in the middle of nowhere. They were like, don't go out there. And I was not obviously going to listen to them, I wanted to walk around and experience this trip. So I get out of the car, I immediately fall on my face, because my legs were like jello. I just fell on my face, and pulled myself back up, and started walking around. And I looked down at the ground, and we were in the middle of a corn field that had just been harvested. And I looked down at the ground, and there's a piece of a corn stalk this long laying there, and it was glowing bright neon blue. I thought it was a lightsaber. So I went to go pick it up, and I was like, whoa. I turned to my buddies, and I was like, check this out. I'm just holding a corn stalk. To me, I thought it was an actual lightsaber. I fully thought that. But to them, they started laughing. As soon as they started laughing, I felt almost embarrassed, because I was like, well, how do they not find this as cool as I do? I had no concept that this was just a corn stalk. To me, that was a lightsaber. I was like, this is crazy. Sorry about that. My hard drive ran out of space, but we're back. So yeah, I was saying, that corn stalk, I was carrying it around, and thought it was just the coolest thing ever. And then something over here caught my attention, and I looked over, and there was this giant purple cloud floating across the sky. And keep in mind, it's nighttime, but the sky looked like it was daytime to me, probably because my pupils are so big, I would imagine. And yeah, this giant purple cloud comes floating across, and it just stops in front of me, but way up in the sky. And these bolts of purple lightning start just blasting out of this cloud in every direction. And these two figures just come descending down from the cloud, and they're two neon stick figures. They're full-size stick figures, probably actually maybe seven or eight feet tall. They were pretty big. And the stick portion of them were this thick, and they were just stick people. The arms, and the circle head, and the legs, they're just giant stick people. One was neon green, and one was neon blue. They were both glowing. And yeah, they both descend down from this purple cloud, and they come right in front of me, like five to ten feet away. They both come down, and just start beating the ---- out of each other. They just start going to town, having this crazy, epic battle right in front of me. And this crazy martial arts spin kicks, and it was nuts. And so I'm just standing there just like, whoa, just watching this. And I'm staring out into the middle of an empty field. That's what everyone else is seeing. So yeah, pretty funny stuff. But it still is definitely something to take seriously. DMT is... I know people who took DMT and never came back from it fully. It broke them, mentally. Fortunately, I was with good people, so that didn't happen. And I did it in a safe way. You could definitely get into a situation with DMT where you can screw yourself up really bad. So yeah, just be very careful if you're going to ever mess around with those kind of psychedelics. I personally... there's nothing that... I don't know if there's really as much to glean from DMT as there is from something like Mushrooms. Because DMT is so overwhelming of an experience, it's very hard to actually take anything away from that. Whereas Mushrooms, you can still think clearly the entire time you're on Mushrooms, unless you're on a lot. But if you're on a reasonable amount, two or three grams, if you're doing a therapy session, you can still think nice and clearly, which is very important to be able to think through the thoughts that are coming up that the Mushrooms help to bring to the surface. And then you can still think clearly enough to process those in a healthy way. So that's essentially the entire idea behind psychedelic therapy. Yeah, if you can avoid psychedelic therapy, I would say that's almost like a second-to-last-case scenario. Last case resort would be going on pharmaceutical medication, SSRIs, if nothing else works. And the SSRIs do work, because they don't work for everybody. If they do work for you, and psychedelic therapy doesn't, that's better than being in a horrible mental state for the rest of your life. Just bite the bullet and find a good SSRI regimen that works for you, at least for the time being. Because what happened with me when I went on Zoloft, is I was in such a bad state. As I mentioned earlier, the Zoloft didn't really help. That's not entirely true. It helped me get clear enough for those couple of weeks where it was working. It helped my head to get clear enough to the point where I was able to analyze my situation a bit better, and start to think through, okay, how do I get out of this? Sometimes you just need that kickstart. And going on SSRIs for a couple months might be that kickstart you need, and then you can taper right off again. Because yeah, being on SSRIs for your entire life, I can't imagine that's good for you. When I was on them, it completely ruins your appetite, your sex drive. It takes all that away from you, and you're just this empty husk of a person that you were before that's just dead inside. That's what SSRIs make you feel like. There's a dead inside loser that can't get a boner. That's what SSRIs are, at least in my experience, and everybody I've ever talked to has taken them. So yeah, I would say if you're starting down this journey of self-improvement, try doing everything you can to avoid any kind of substances at first. Try to just do it naturally. And if that doesn't work, maybe try a couple rounds of psychedelic therapy, and also traditional therapy. It's not the most effective thing in the world, definitely not for everybody. I tried that whole thing, going to counselors and therapists and stuff, and I never found a single one that actually genuinely cared about me, because they can't. They see way too many people. They can't care about everybody deeply, and that's what you need when you're in a position like I was in. You need somebody that actually cares about you, and it's actually very disheartening going to therapy and realizing that your therapist doesn't actually give a ---- about you and your problems. They're there because you're paying them money to essentially vent about your problems. So I get way more therapeutic value out of making these videos than I ever did from going to an actual therapist, and this is free. Well, I mean, I paid like, that webcam was like $200, and this was like a $50 microphone. So the bar to entry for unlimited therapy is like $250. I mean, you could just film it on your phone too with a built-in camera, but yeah. Try something like this. Make a YouTube channel. You don't even need to show your face. You could have the webcam ending here. You know how the dude, the guitar guy on YouTube, he makes his camera cut off right here, and he just shows the bottom half? You could do something like that if you don't want to show your face. However, if you have like self-confidence issues, I would recommend getting a webcam and showing your face because that will help your self-confidence. I never had that many issues with self-confidence, so I don't have much of an issue showing my face. But yeah, yeah, therapy. Try doing it without substances. If that doesn't work, try natural substances, mushrooms, things like that. That's not working for you after a few months. Talk to your doctor. You might need to get on a regimen to SSRIs for a while to get your head right. Get blood work done too. A lot of people who have issues like this, it's often a very, very simple, it's such a simple thing that's causing their problems that they completely overlook it for years. Sometimes their entire life they'll go overlooking this one little thing because it's so small. I heard Jordan Peterson talking once about one of his clients because Jordan Peterson is an actual clinical psychologist in Canada here. I heard him talking once about one of his clients, some teenage girl, and she was having crazy anxiety and depression issues, constant breakdowns and panic attacks, really bad shape. Jordan Peterson noticed that she was really skinny and he asked her, what's your diet like? What do you eat throughout the course of a day? She said she wakes up in the morning and has a smoothie and then doesn't eat anything for the rest of the day until dinner time where she'll have a small bowl of rice, a bowl half full of rice, a tiny amount. If you do the math, that and a smoothie, that can't be more than five, six, 700 calories at most if the smoothie is super calorie dense. Let's just say she's eating 500 calories a day. You're literally starving to death. No wonder you feel like ----. You are dying. You're actively killing yourself by not eating enough. You're going to feel like ----. So it could be something as simple as that. I know a lot of the times when I start falling and spiraling, it's because I let my diet slip and I let my stomach shrink without noticing because again, it's such a simple thing. You often overlook it. And also in the West, like Canada and the U.S., diet really isn't a terribly important thing to us. For most people, we just eat food, eat calories. That's how Americans and Canadians tend to see food, just calories. So yeah, take care of your diet and your mental health will improve. Even if you don't think you have bad mental health, A, I don't know why you're watching these videos, but B, even if you don't have bad mental health to begin with, if you improve your diet, you will notice changes in your mood and your temperament and you will just be a better, more functioning person in society if you're eating good or well. Now, I don't know if I had that much else to talk about in this video. I just wanted to cover all the psychedelic therapy stuff, talking about the stigma behind psychedelic use amongst conservatives and right-leaning people. That is definitely starting to go away now though, which is very nice. Like my grandpa, for example, he's passed away now, but this guy would have been super, super against any kind of substance use other than alcohol because, of course, he drank like a fish, but any kind of substance use, absolutely not other than alcohol. That's from the devil, right? He got cancer when he got older. I think it was thyroid cancer, I believe. He had so much pain in his body and everywhere from the cancer that my dad and my uncle actually managed to convince him to start smoking. I don't think he was smoking weed. I think he might have been taking like an oral spray or some kind of THC spray. Yeah, it helped him a lot. When I'd go to gatherings and stuff, you could tell days where he was on it and when he wasn't. When he wasn't on it, he looked like he was in a lot of pain and just miserable. When he was on it, he looked happy. My grandpa was always a bit of an angry dude. Some of the only times I ever saw him happy is when he was on this weed spray or whatever they had gotten him. There are definitely uses for weed as well. I'm not one of these people that's going to quit weed now and go on some kind of crusade like nobody should ever smoke weed. No, there are absolutely uses for it. I'm a Christian. I believe that God puts everything on this earth is here for a reason. I don't think there's coincidences. I think everything is for a reason, just like that plant. The cannabis plant is such a specific and finely tuned plant. There's zero chance that that's a coincidence, that that just happened. That was put here for us. I believe that 100%. Just like the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, it's meant to be used responsibly. Don't eat of the fruit just willy-nilly. You need to know what you're doing. Same thing goes for weed. Any substances that are going to impact your mental state, be careful. It's a slippery slope. Trust me, I've fallen down that slippery slope more than once. I think that's about all I was going to talk about in this video. Do I have any other trip stories, funny trip stories? I probably do. I just can't think of any right now. I don't know. Maybe I'll think of something and make another video. I don't know. But for now, I think that's about all I was going to talk about. I am thinking of uploading again today. I guess I haven't been thinking a lot about it lately, but it's just kind of been something in the back of my mind for the last, I don't know, five, ten years. I'm noticing everybody around me is becoming gay, and it's weird. So I'm probably going to make a video on that, about why like 20 to 30 percent of people are now claiming to be gay, when that throughout history has never been the case. Yeah, I kind of want to make a video on that, kind of exploring why that might be, and some of the societal factors that could cause, I just, this term just popped into my head. I'm going to coin this, mass homosexuality. So we'll dive into that a little bit, and we'll see what's going on there. But yeah, until then, see you around.