In an extensive study of Americans published in 2015, researchers found no connection between taking psychedelic medications like mushrooms and developing long-term schizophrenia or psychosis. While a bad trip can be a traumatic experience, some people develop recurring symptoms of poor mental health after using mushrooms. When people discuss psychedelic mushrooms, or shrooms, they’re generally referring to what are “magic mushrooms,” which contain the hallucinogen psilocybin.
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From the physiological to the psychological effects, we will delve into the intricacies of shroom consumption and its impact on long-term well-being. If a person ingests poisonous shrooms by accident they can have many bad side effects. Another physical risk of taking mushrooms is poisoning if the wrong shrooms are taken. If a person takes enough shrooms in a short period of time, they will stop feeling any effects from them at all until they stop ingesting them for at least several days. Oftentimes stress or other substances can initiate flashbacks. Psilocybin is naturally-occurring hallucinogen that’s found in some types of wild mushrooms.
