For someone who dealt with major depression all throughout his life, and the subsequent ruining of relationships, lost opportunities, and ultimately self-sabotage. I can safely say psychedelics were the only thing to bring lasting change even after the soul-crushing dosages of Prozac and exhausting amount of CBT.

But let me tell you what, it wasn't like I ate a few mushrooms and suddenly the clouds parted way and happiness shinned into my ass. A couple high doses of LSD and a bit of mushrooms ultimately were the most terrible and terrifying experiences of my life. Imagine just taking shrooms and being curled in the fetal position, bawling your eyes out after realizing how much of a prick you had become to those you loved. Those constant streams of negative turned all the way up, so loud you can't help but listen and finally realize this is how you actually think all the time. Having everything you've repressed, for years, hit you in the face all at once, with no possibility to escape it.

Ultimately though LSD and Shrooms were the only thing that worked. It's been five-six years since I've been on Prozac and I'm happier then I've ever been. Also I managed to put all the highly introspective and soul crushing stoic parts of my brain to good use, instead of having them dedicated to self loathing, and am a year away from graduating from a top CS school with a healthy GPA and alot of opportunities to match now that I'm all sorted out.