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We also have absolutely no idea what else they might do. Psychadelics cause plenty of terrible, often irreversible negative mental health side affects as well.

• loceng 6y ago
  Do you have links to any relatively detailed evidence, even anecdotal? People who aren't very self-aware can also wrongly attribute an outcome to something they took, when in fact it's simply exposing them to something underlying, something their ego mind was hiding from them - suppressed/repressed unhealed/unprocessed emotional and/or physical trauma (past or active) - which will highly likely have a highly workable solution/treatment for, just that the medical systems lack of holistic approach and holistic understanding and lack of protocol causes the current institutions to be v relatively useless when trying to guide healing. For example, MDMA may cause people to feel anxious while they're on it - that's actually expected and not a problem if you're explained why it happens and you've been explained, primed with, multiple ways to process it - while being in a relatively safe space with at least one safe go-to person who you can have to talk to, as that's one of main methods of processing trauma and allowing the anxiety to rapidly melt away; it wasn't the MDMA that caused the anxiety but instead lowered the conditioning to below your baseline stress level, revealing/giving access to feelings of anxiety underlying that otherwise would be too distracting and overwhelming preventing you from being functioning day to day - instead you have the opportunity on MDMA to process them. If you take MDMA recreationally but without knowing this, without having a safe person to talk to at a moment's notice if you start feeling anxious that you can't seem to process on your own (which makes sense that could be the case the majority of the time if it's trauma that you've yet to be able to process) - if you don't know how to process that anxiety while on MDMA, and it's as simple as going somewhere quiet with a person and just starting to talk ("I feel anxious") to start dialogue - then you're going to feel bad after because you'll open yourself to anxiety but not have processed any or much of it; over days to weeks you'll get conditioned to it again to some degree, you may avoid MDMA and blame it when it was inadequate support during, and it's also why dosing is very important - as if you take too much MDMA 1) you won't remember much of the experience (as memory is part of stress response), and 2) you'll access too much, causing too much to come to the surface, and can feel very anxious for at least a week. Maps.org's research, founded by Rick Doblin, is now why the FDA is fast tracking approval for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. I also want to point out that your final sentence also should be asked for approved medications line SSRIs - which not only increase rate of suicide (and arguably homicide; suicide taking anger out on self, homicide out onto others) but also have horrendous side-effects including long term withdrawal symptoms.