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Does anyone here have experience with ibogaine? A close friend recently went to Mexico to do ibogaine therapy and she says it's changed her life, mostly for the
by leroy_masochist 11y ago
Does anyone here have experience with ibogaine? A close friend recently went to Mexico to do ibogaine therapy and she says it's changed her life, mostly for the better.
They have actual clinics in Mexico where they hook you up to an IV of the drug (oral ingestion problematic for whatever reason) and assign you a trip-sitter who has two jobs: for the first hour or two, when the drug makes you ill in an ayahuasca-like way, they help you get through it, go to and from the bathroom, etc. For the second part, which lasts around eight hours, the trip-sitter just hangs out and chats with you.
According to my friend, it was an emotionally much deeper journey than ayahuasca, with much more pronounced long-term results.
Evidently it gets rid of a lot of your deep-seated emotional and psychological issues (specifically, she says she's parted with "a shitload of petty little grudges against random people"), but it also, as she puts it, "takes all of your armor off". For example she reports that aggressive drivers used to be a source of mild amusement, but now she gets very saddened and anxious when another driver gives her the finger and refuses to let her change lanes.