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Psychedelics boost your mood in the days, weeks, and even months after taking them. Source: I've used them. It's really dramatic. However, eating a piece of ch
by slibhb 2y ago
Psychedelics boost your mood in the days, weeks, and even months after taking them. Source: I've used them. It's really dramatic.
However, eating a piece of chocolate also makes you feel good. Doesn't mean chocolate is an effective treatment for depression. Whether psychedelics are effective treatments for various psychological conditions, I don't know. Whether the risks outweigh the benefits, I don't know.
I've grown more conservative about drug use over the past few years. I hope we keep up the research but it is very clear that -- as the article argues -- these drugs have been overhyped.
- readthenotes1 2y agoI have a friend who refuses to find the counsel of a licensed therapist because hens so proud of the insights received while tripping. Sadly, hen and hens family desperately need help.
- codr7 2y agoSo, you think you know better how your friend should live his/her life? How would you feel if the tables were reversed and you were being pushed into tripping instead of therapy? These are the kinds of choices that we have to learn to respect, for all of us, which means less judging. There may be other ways to help if that's really what you want to do.
- slibhb 2y agoThis idea that we have to respect other people's decisions is so stupid. There is nothing in the world wrong with believing that someone else is making a mistake. We have brains so we can make these sorts of judgements.
- codr7 2y agoYou are certainly entitled to an opinion. But it would be wiser to base it on empathy and understanding than ego.
- polyphaser 2y agoCalling someone's decisions poor/stupid/uninformed doesn't stem from a lack of empathy or anything like that. Empathy isn't born in a vacuum, nor is it possible to get rid of ego altogether. Ego processes my lived experiences into feelings and opinions.
- codr7 2y agoHow could it stem from anything else? Agreed, but you need to keep it on a leash, or it will ruin your life.
- readthenotes1 2y agoYou might apply that to yourself. I know more about the situation and you do, the person question is a relative I care for deeply.
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- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI've got nothing against people using psychedelics recreationally or as a supplemental treatment. Every time I've seen someone claim that psychedelics have eliminated their need for more conventional psychiatric treatments, their thoughts seem to me to be obviously disordered.
- theshackleford 2y ago> Every time I've seen someone claim that psychedelics have eliminated their need for more conventional psychiatric treatments, their thoughts seem to me to be obviously disordered. I’ve only seen the opposite. I won’t touch them because my brain is poison, but the people I know who have, they are all in legitimately better places, and this is without regular redosing. They try quite heavily to sell me in the idea of these things, but again, I know they just are not for me and my brain.
- furyofantares 2y agoSorry, but what are hen/hens? Swedish gender-neutral pronoun?
- readthenotes1 2y agoYep. I found using they/them often too disruptive to my understanding. English needs a gender neutral pronoun because, imo, the gender of the pronoun person is almost never relevant (as in this case). Being true to my culture, I felt it appropriate to appropriate it from another language.