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Hello Tuesday's Gone,

Welcome to the nexus. It's very hard for us to give you good advice for your issues. If your problem is the result of a mental illness (such as psychosis or schizophrenia) it is highly discouraged to take psychedelics. It is said that they can exacerbate the problem very greatly and we have seen several people already who after taking dmt were left feeling terribly disconnected from reality, to the point that they could no longer sleep or go on about their lives like normal.

Have you tried speaking to a doctor about your problems? I mean not just a psychologist but also a regular doctor? Sometimes mood changes and the things like you describe can be the result of organic problems, hormonal problems, deficiencies of nutrients or even infection of fungi. These things can be fixed, but psychedelics wouldn't help here. Perhaps it is a better idea to get this checked out thoroughly by a doctor who takes the time to listen to you, rather than trying to self medicate with something that can hurt you more.

Psychedelics *can* be used in some cases to help people struggling with depressions or lack of direction in their life or coping with loss or death etc. but you have to know what you are doing. I highly advise against taking psychedelics in your situation without doing further research into your own condition and into the possible risks that psychedelics pose for your mental health.

I do wish you good luck and hope you find a way to heal yourself.

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I'm not sure I agree with your standpoint on mental illnesses not existing. I have had pretty palpable depressions and I definitely feel that they are an illness on many different levels. Also I have seen people with mental problems which I wouldn't know how else to define, other than mentally disturbed.

Now of course I really don't know if modern psychiatry is the best way to treat these perturbations of our minds/bodies/souls. I suspect it isn't. I suspect that a holistic approach would do more in some cases, but in some there is probably not much to be done. You would have to ask someone more involved in the field. I'm really just speculating.

If you don't want to go to a psychologist - a decision I can understand though don't necessarily recommend - but you want to fix yourself, you can try a holistic approach yourself. Body, mind and spirit need to be healthy. For the body you can exercise. Try to work up a sweat at least three times a week. Do something with your nutrition, also. Even if you think you are living healthily, try changing to a different diet for some time, like leave away refined sugars, meat, etc.

For your spirit you can practice yoga/thai chi/chi gong and or meditation. For your mind you can look for stimulating books to read or try to learn something new - like a musical instrument, a new language or a craft, your favorite branch of mathematics... Even if it all feels unreal, perhaps you can force yourself to go along with it anyway.

Perhaps you won't get rid of this feeling like this, but maybe you can learn to live with it in a somehow manageable way. Changing your inner ballance like this is a slow process which can take many weeks. And, even if it does not help your situation, at least you are certainly not doing anything bad to yourself.

Also, if you have any suspicion that your problem may result from a more organic level, try a different doctor and insist a little that they do the proper tests. Now a days it's very common for doctors to do routine tests that don't find anything wrong with you, even though there might be. If your issues get worse, I would recommend seeing a psychologist, but you have the right to be picky about them. Don't settle for the first one you go to, if you don't feel like he can help you. Look for one that seems to want to help. There are people out there that do this job out of vocation and really do want to help their patients. It's worth a shot - after all you will only be losing a little bit of your time and might come out with new insights about how to make yourself whole again.

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