I made friends with a woman who does something called integration therapy. She deals mostly with people who have gone and dosed themselves in the hope of findin

I made friends with a woman who does something called integration therapy. She deals mostly with people who have gone and dosed themselves in the hope of finding themselves or whatever and just end up needing professional help because that's a very hard thing to do to yourself if you're already messed up. The way I've always seen it is this - Learning your lesson with these things is kind of like learning your lesson because you just got your ass handed to you in a fist fight, except with psychedelics it's like getting cosmically beaten into a pulp by having your consciousness put into a cannon and fired across the universe and back. Some people are really attuned to this kind of thing and can just shake it off while laughing the entire time. Others, who have no idea what they're getting into, with stuff like pre-existing anxiety conditions? If anyone really thinks them going solo on these kind of journeys is going to make them better then they might as well send them down some rapids with no boating or swimming experience for a 'therapeutic' prank show. The key thing this article and the researchers touch on is that it's the integration part of the therapy that works, the drug is something like a catalyst, and any hype around treatments which work without that component is likely to turn out to be a dangerous disappointment. I don't disagree with this at all.