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I think studies that have used MDMA have suggested that some of these slumps can be corrected sometimes by just a minimal dose. It seems like such a waste not t

I think studies that have used MDMA have suggested that some of these slumps can be corrected sometimes by just a minimal dose. It seems like such a waste not to try something like that, when the cost of taking an individual from cradle to responsible adulthood is fully realized.

DoreenMichele 7y ago
The girl in the article under discussion was raped by two men at age 14, then mistreated for years by the healthcare system that she turned to for help in the aftermath of that. I was raped at age 12. It took me two decades to recover, and I got vastly better support than her. Lots of tape victims seem to never really get over it. Most of the world seems to not know how to heal that kind of trauma. I cannot imagine that a single dose of a drug has any hope of fixing something like that. If you cannot trust anyone around you because of a long standing track record of mistreatment of you, taking happy pills to make you happy with this horror show sounds like a really bad idea to me, one that would reduce your ability to adequately self advocate in a dangerous social setting. I also live with an incurable medical condition that is classified as a dread disease because it so negatively impacts your life. On the upside, I am getting healthier when the entire world says it cannot be done. As my physical health improves, my suicidal tendencies are trending down because I'm not so extremely miserable 24/7. On the downside, basically the entire world is openly hostile, openly attacks me for talking about that, openly dismisses me as a lunatic who is making that up, openly discriminates against me over that -- for example, I've had moderators on multiple forums tell me I'm the problem when I got attacked in violation of the rules and I got thrown off instead of the people attacking me -- and on and on. That alone is enough to make things look pretty damn hopeless. There is no winning here. And that's for someone miraculously getting well when that's supposed to be impossible. If I actually was facing the steady gruesome decline my condition is supposed to cause where life is horrible torture today and you can count on things just getting steadily worse for all of your tomorrows, I would have killed myself ages ago. There is no fucking way I would fight to survive with such a prognosis. Many people need solutions for torturous health issues or torturous social problems rooted in the bad behavior of other people. For such people, seeking to tweak their brain chemistry like they are the problem that needs to be fixed is part of the problem.

DoreenMichele 7y ago

The girl in the article under discussion was raped by two men at age 14, then mistreated for years by the healthcare system that she turned to for help in the aftermath of that. I was raped at age 12. It took me two decades to recover, and I got vastly better support than her. Lots of tape victims seem to never really get over it. Most of the world seems to not know how to heal that kind of trauma. I cannot imagine that a single dose of a drug has any hope of fixing something like that. If you cannot trust anyone around you because of a long standing track record of mistreatment of you, taking happy pills to make you happy with this horror show sounds like a really bad idea to me, one that would reduce your ability to adequately self advocate in a dangerous social setting. I also live with an incurable medical condition that is classified as a dread disease because it so negatively impacts your life. On the upside, I am getting healthier when the entire world says it cannot be done. As my physical health improves, my suicidal tendencies are trending down because I'm not so extremely miserable 24/7. On the downside, basically the entire world is openly hostile, openly attacks me for talking about that, openly dismisses me as a lunatic who is making that up, openly discriminates against me over that -- for example, I've had moderators on multiple forums tell me I'm the problem when I got attacked in violation of the rules and I got thrown off instead of the people attacking me -- and on and on. That alone is enough to make things look pretty damn hopeless. There is no winning here. And that's for someone miraculously getting well when that's supposed to be impossible. If I actually was facing the steady gruesome decline my condition is supposed to cause where life is horrible torture today and you can count on things just getting steadily worse for all of your tomorrows, I would have killed myself ages ago. There is no fucking way I would fight to survive with such a prognosis. Many people need solutions for torturous health issues or torturous social problems rooted in the bad behavior of other people. For such people, seeking to tweak their brain chemistry like they are the problem that needs to be fixed is part of the problem.