By Melissa Whippo, Illustration: Celia Jacobs/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 8, 2023
“All of my mom friends are microdosing mushrooms, and I want to try it, too,” one of my patients said during our therapy session.
A 34-year-old woman with two children under age 4, my patient lives in the Bay Area — home to one of the epicenters of what is known as the “psychedelic renaissance,” making it more common for moms to discuss microdosing at play dates.
As a therapist who specializes in psychedelics for perinatal mental health, I’ve worked with numerous such women who hope to treat their depression, anxiety and trauma with therapeutic psychedelic medicine. Many of them feel more comfortable taking something they feel is more “natural” such as psilocybin, which they don’t have to take daily, rather than a daily pill like Prozac, which is one in a class of drugs called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI).
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