To be fair, ever since I’ve started weekly psilocybin microdoses for depression I’ve been able to stop my regular anti-depressants which had some nasty side effects. And in those 3 years, I’ve had exactly zero depressive breakdowns like I used to have.

I don’t really enjoy the feeling of a normal dose of shrooms, but with a microdose below a noticeable effect (sometimes I overshoot a little and it gets a little warm and tingly), I have in fact had a huge quality of life increase.

I guess in some ways “not wanting to die regularly” could be seen as “having fun” by some people, and I’m sure that if a proper study was done the result would be inconclusive. I mostly think that the inconclusiveness in these depression studies has much to do with a lack of understanding of what depression even is and thus a lot of them have people with very different root causes of their pathology all being labeled “depression.”

But it works for me, and it works very well. (And 2g of shrooms per month is also dirt cheap compared to expensive anti-depressants.)