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Mushrooms got him off antidepressants, so he built TripSitter

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 24, 2026
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Writer John Biggs wanted no part of psychedelics, he writes in his newsletter — he pictured being “trapped in a room with a bunch of weirdos while they sang songs and listened to techno.” But he was in a bad way after his father’s death: drinking, gaining weight, and stuck on the antidepressant Pristiq, which he cal…

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