Before I discovered Magic Mushrooms as a health benefit, my history with them was purely recreational … and awful.  Over the course of my adult life, I had done them just a handful of times, and, with one exception, they were ALL bad trips.  Yes, they were all unique from each other; but still, all pretty horrible.  The one exception?  That time I didn’t feel anything at all.

With these experiences, I quite firmly announced, whenever the subject came up, that I was “not a mushroom person.”  I’d given it a more-than-fair shake.  Not for me.  If you had told me that one day I would start a website dedicated to psilocybin mushrooms….

But what happened, see, is that my psychedelic psychotherapist talked me into exploring it under his supervision.  I agreed to it with not just reluctance, but a fair amount of trepidation and fear.  In fact, I was terrified.  However, in session, it was preceded by MDMA (a.k.a ecstasy, a.k.a Molly), an extraordinarily powerful drug, which removed all of the fear I would have been experiencing if I’d taken a dose of shrooms as large as he gave me without the XTC.

It may have already been fairly common knowledge, but it was news to me that mushrooms helped to relieve chronic depression.  So now that I had been reintroduced to them, I had a solid reason to experiment with them.  I’ve suffered from chronic depression my entire life.  So if mushrooms could help, I needed to find out how.
But the only time I didn’t have a bad trip was when I did them on XTC … and you can’t do ecstasy all the time.  I can’t, anyway.  For me, an ecstasy trip means at least one solid week of difficult and unpleasant recovery.  Sure, you get your super-incredibly-amazing day of ecstatic transformation; but then that’s followed up by a week in Hell.  So I had to learn how to take mushrooms without that stuff.

So I found where to get some shrooms.  Then, my first time out doing shrooms AFTER the time on XTC with the psychedelic psychotherapist … it was, once again, a horrible, scary, harrowing experience.  I might have simply given up at that point … except I had purchased a sizeable amount of shrooms, having assumed I was going to like them.  It was 2020 and we were in the depths of the pandemic.  I had nothing but time on my hands, not to mention a relative abundance of shrooms.  So I wondered … what if I only took a little bit?  I’d always been given the dose and always took the whole thing at once.  No one had ever told me any differently.

Well, that changed everything, and from there, I developed my own technique to take them safely and to minimize the possibility of having a bad trip.
Now here I was, tripping on mushrooms on a regular basis … something I never expected in my life.

It was during my newfound tripping that I started thinking about a particularly bad trip that happened 30 years prior.  That was when the idea hit me to create a video that would help other people get through a bad trip.

That idea became the aptly-titled “Help Getting Through A Bad Mushroom Trip,” the video that is permanently pinned to the top of the home page of the Tripping Channel website. It’s always front and center because that one video is the primary reason that I created the Tripping Channel.  If only I’d had such a video to watch during each of my bad trips, it would have helped me so much; it would have made such a profound difference in my experiences.

So this is truly an instance of: “If this video helps only one person, then it will all have been worth it.”  Because getting the channel and the website up and running has been a bigger headache than I ever anticipated. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been tempted to scrap the entire project.
But it always came back to this: Someone is going to need to watch that video.  Someone will be helped by it.  Someone will be grateful to have had it when they needed it. I know the horror of a bad mushroom trip. So it must ALWAYS be up and accessible.

Now I have the arduous task of learning how to do this dumb shit:  posting on social media, putting out videos on a regular basis, continuing to develop the channel and website.   Stuff I don’t REALLY want to do.  But this MUST be the go-to video that people know to put on when they (or someone they know) are having a bad trip.  All my other videos and social media posts are fodder for keeping this one video prominent and known-about.
Not to imply that the other videos are useless.  Look to “The Serious Collection” on the home page of the Tripping Channel for the other videos that I think are particularly important.

Does “Help Getting Through a Bad Mushrooms Trip” actually help someone get through a bad trip? Does it truly work? The answer is: I think so.  It helps my brother who also trips on mushrooms, also to relieve his chronic depression.  And, on the occasions that I don’t follow my own advice and have yet another bad trip, it actually helps me, too.  But so far, I have yet to learn if it works outside of my gene pool.  I’m waiting to hear the definitive answer from viewers.  If the answer is no, it’ll save me a LOT of time and money.  I can dismantle this site and say, “It was a good idea, anyway,” and get on to other things.

But I think the answer will be yes, and I’ll still be building this site for a long time to come.

Shroom Daddy

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