Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite in Eugene to trip on magic mushrooms. For roughly six hours, adults over 21 can experience what many users describe as vivid geometric shapes, a loss of identity and a oneness with the universe.

Epic Healing Eugene — Oregon’s first licensed psilocybin service center — opened in June, marking the state’s unprecedented step in offering the mind-bending drug to the public. The center now has a waitlist of more than 3,000 names, including people with depression, PTSD or end-of-life dread.

No prescription or referral is needed, but proponents hope Oregon’s legalization will spark a revolution in mental health care.

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    NGL, it’s been an absolute game-changer for my wife’s depression.

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        Can you tell us a bit more about your experience? Like how you felt before, your experience with the mushrooms, and how you feel now? I have been struggling with depression and ADHD forever and I feel like I’ve tried everything.

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          As someone who’s spent years on and off meds, I find a yearly dose of shrooms does the brain good. For me it mostly reminds me that the universe is waaaaaay larger than myself so all the anxiety and doom-and-gloom depression I get is just fucking pointless. I can enjoy the flowers a little more, or any of the small things in life because it just…. Doesn’t fucking matter.

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      I tried this two times now, but with no luck. I was off any medication for months before the second try because I’d read that ssris can prevent the effects of mushrooms, so now I worry the effect of SSRIs may be permanent because I felt absolutely no effect besides a little nausea. Was that not a factor for your wife?

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        I didn’t really experience any effects the first half-dozen or so times I ate mushrooms. Turned out I just needed a really big dose. I was on SSRI’s for some of those early attempts, but not all of them. Obviously these weren’t exactly clinical trials, and I suspect the quality of mushrooms varied considerably. Once I finally managed to get enough of them in my system, it was an incredibly rewarding experience.

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          Yeah, I guess it’s hard to know because they are variable, but others took the same or less and had a more interesting time. 4 or 5 mushed up little mushrooms in a tea.