>>292001
>conflating psychedelics with nigger street drugs and pharmajewticals
You're ignorance is appalling. Psychedelics don't "keep you from confronting what's really wrong" - they FORCE you to confront them. Every single ugly aspect of your character will be brought to the fore and you won't be able to hide, but at the same time it will "show" you what you can do to fix yourself. You can give OP advice all day on what he needs to do to get out of his funk, but it will never be as effective and profound as having his own higher conscious SHOW him, in full detail, the way out.
Allow me to use myself as an example: I first took psychedelics out of sheer desperation. I was miserable and suicidal, abusing alcohol and opiates; like OP, I wanted an out. So I decided to give these substances a try, because why not - maybe it'll allow me to see my waifu and forget about the world for a few hours. Instead, the experience I had completely changed my life. I quit booze cold-turkey and suffered no withdrawals, banished the thought of painkillers totally from my mind, gave up porn and made a commitment to no-fap, and quit wasting my time watching cartoons and playing vidya, focusing my time on reading instead, and took up meditation and other methods of thought-control. The entire focus of my life has been towards self-improvement for the past year, to become the man I saw in the vision I could be, and I've never been happier.
Countless others have had similar life-changing experiences for the better after trying hallucinogens, and there is an immense body of research proving their almost miraculous ability to heal those suffering from conditions like alcoholism, depression, and PTSD, to name a few. Psychedelics aren't addictive, and rarely have negative side-effects, and most people who use them do so only rarely, as their powers are too sacred (for lack of a better word) to be abused. Put aside your "muh all drugs are degenerate" bias for a moment and do some research, and you'll find that psychedelics are nothing like the anti-drug propaganda would have you believe
>get a haircut
no - I love my long flowing locks, and frequently get complemented for them
>>292005
>DMT sounds like it could work but I think it would be hard to control what happens on it.
You can't "control" the visions you have on any psychedelic, but you can influence them by having the proper set and setting. The experiences people have tend to be "tailored" for what they actually need the most at the moment, perhaps healing or spiritual, or something that "opens one's mind" in a way to allow them to see the world in new and novel ways. Suffice it to say, they have a "mind of their own", or perhaps more accurately, they unlock aspects of your higher conscious, or connect you with sympathetic entities, that guide you towards the revelations that have the most benefit for your life. I have seen ponies in my own visions, seen the wonders of their worlds, and they have given me much wisdom that has benefited me once I come down. Perhaps you will encounter them as well.