Thanks for sharing your experiences, and your success with self-experimentation. It's tragic that a similar protocol is not a first-line treatment for so-called

Thanks for sharing your experiences, and your success with self-experimentation. It's tragic that a similar protocol is not a first-line treatment for so-called "mental illness" (a term which should be entirely discarded [edit: the most observable symptoms are behavioral but the patient's condition is a conglomeration of contributing causes]). Reading your comment, the notion of 'biological stress' came to mind. Wikipedia redirects to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(biology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(biology) (the subsections #Psychology and #Psychological_concepts are especially applicable to your comment). The ambiguity in defining this phenomenon was first recognized by Hans Selye (1907–1982) in 1926. In 1951 a commentator loosely summarized Selye's view of stress as something that "...in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself".[30][31] First to use the term in a biological context, Selye continued to define stress as "the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it". As of 2011 neuroscientists such as Bruce McEwen and Jaap Koolhaas believe that stress, based on years of empirical research, "should be restricted to conditions where an environmental demand exceeds the natural regulatory capacity of an organism". Dr. Gabor Maté quotes Selye in his book about addiction, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: "It may be said without hesitation that for man the most important stressors are emotional." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Mat%C3%A9_(physician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Mat%C3%A9_(physician)