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> stories of people turning their entire lives and psychology around for the better after a single dose aren’t common This story itself is not about someone tu

> stories of people turning their entire lives and psychology around for the better after a single dose aren’t common This story itself is not about someone turning his entire life around after a single session. As the author writes: "Ironically, my first visit to the clinic didn't really address my social anxiety directly, as there was a lot more fundamental stuff that I had to work through. I've been back twice now..."

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Exactly. As I said above, a lot of these psychedelic afterglows are short-lived, leading to an urge to redose to recapture the experience.
- loves_mangoes 5y ago
  Urge to redose is maybe laying it on a bit thick. Drugs feel good, obviously, but psychedelics aren't particulraly adictive to most people. It's usually pretty draining, not something most people would want to do every day. The afterglows are pretty long for me! Love
  - sterlind 5y ago
    I've had the opposite. Horrendously scary experiences brought on by panic attacks, magnified by the drug and stretched out to subjective days by time dilation. My ego was run through the thresher and dismembered. Having such a negative experience was probably better though. I rebuilt my ego after a few months and permanently (10+ years now) fixed deep problems in my psyche. But it scared the bejeesus out of me and I have no desire to go through that ever again.
    - loves_mangoes 5y ago
      I'm really sorry you went through that, for what it's worth <3 Stay safe.
    - pmoriarty 5y ago
      Bad trips often uncover a lot of negative unconscious material that the tripper does not want to deal with in their ordinary waking consciousness. Psychedelics can sometimes just kind of "put your nose in it" whether you like it or not and make you face these things. Some people can't handle it.. especially if they're not expecting it, have not prepared, and have no professional support to help them to work through and integrate the experience. It can be terrifying, but my own bad trips (which happened decades ago) have taught me much more than my good trips, which were just fun. Not that I'd want to have a bad trip or wish one on anyone else, but they can be used constructively and be ultimately helpful if one tries to learn from them instead of just push them away. Surrender to whatever happens during the trip and turning towards the fear has also been shown to lead to a positive outcome as one experiences "ego-death" and then rebirth, which is why this approach is encouraged in professional psychedelic therapy. I've read some psychedelic therapists telling their patients that if they feel like they're dying to just die.. and that it'll be ok.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

Exactly. As I said above, a lot of these psychedelic afterglows are short-lived, leading to an urge to redose to recapture the experience.

loves_mangoes 5y ago
Urge to redose is maybe laying it on a bit thick. Drugs feel good, obviously, but psychedelics aren't particulraly adictive to most people. It's usually pretty draining, not something most people would want to do every day. The afterglows are pretty long for me! Love
- sterlind 5y ago
  I've had the opposite. Horrendously scary experiences brought on by panic attacks, magnified by the drug and stretched out to subjective days by time dilation. My ego was run through the thresher and dismembered. Having such a negative experience was probably better though. I rebuilt my ego after a few months and permanently (10+ years now) fixed deep problems in my psyche. But it scared the bejeesus out of me and I have no desire to go through that ever again.
  - loves_mangoes 5y ago
    I'm really sorry you went through that, for what it's worth <3 Stay safe.
  - pmoriarty 5y ago
    Bad trips often uncover a lot of negative unconscious material that the tripper does not want to deal with in their ordinary waking consciousness. Psychedelics can sometimes just kind of "put your nose in it" whether you like it or not and make you face these things. Some people can't handle it.. especially if they're not expecting it, have not prepared, and have no professional support to help them to work through and integrate the experience. It can be terrifying, but my own bad trips (which happened decades ago) have taught me much more than my good trips, which were just fun. Not that I'd want to have a bad trip or wish one on anyone else, but they can be used constructively and be ultimately helpful if one tries to learn from them instead of just push them away. Surrender to whatever happens during the trip and turning towards the fear has also been shown to lead to a positive outcome as one experiences "ego-death" and then rebirth, which is why this approach is encouraged in professional psychedelic therapy. I've read some psychedelic therapists telling their patients that if they feel like they're dying to just die.. and that it'll be ok.