Brillaint analysis of the policy tension around ibogaine. The ketamine clinic example is spot-on for illustrating what happens when economics collide with a narrow therapeutic window. I've seen similiar optimism around experimental treatments where desperation can override rational risk assesment. That gap between evangelical advocacy and actual clinical realities needs way more attention before states start throwing millions at trials without proper safety infrastructure.
Nice piece of writing. What strikes me too is that there seems to be a built in expectation that a medical approach always trumps a therapy approach to a lot of these issues , partly as its seen as quicker and easier to take a pill than do the hard work of understanding your trauma (I'm not saying a pill can't help, just that people prefer it to talking to a therapist).
Most people can't even remember their trauma, because the brain doesn't let them without a psychedelic experience. Also talk therapy is not helpful for plenty of people, as the patient can't access certain memories. And to be honest, it should be as easy as possible to see and then work on your trauma. It is often hard enough for people to even understand it. Psychedelics represent such a support for human beings. They deserve it.
Psychedelics are not pills. They are non specific amplifier of what is. That’s what makes them powerful. They are not a very easy way out. But they are the most sustainable one.
I know what Paul is saying. The appeal of taking something once over doing the long work of sorting one's sh*t out is quite appealing--even if it isn't an accurate way of looking at psychedelics it is very much how people think!
And still eventually it is still pointless. Many people repeat their thought patterns, over years. And can’t escape them. Psychedelics help to interrupt the repetition.
I'm not saying they can't help. I am saying that if there is a choice, pills are always favored in the states by doctors over therapy. Look at prozac for example.
Brillaint analysis of the policy tension around ibogaine. The ketamine clinic example is spot-on for illustrating what happens when economics collide with a narrow therapeutic window. I've seen similiar optimism around experimental treatments where desperation can override rational risk assesment. That gap between evangelical advocacy and actual clinical realities needs way more attention before states start throwing millions at trials without proper safety infrastructure.
Thank you!
Nice piece of writing. What strikes me too is that there seems to be a built in expectation that a medical approach always trumps a therapy approach to a lot of these issues , partly as its seen as quicker and easier to take a pill than do the hard work of understanding your trauma (I'm not saying a pill can't help, just that people prefer it to talking to a therapist).
Most people can't even remember their trauma, because the brain doesn't let them without a psychedelic experience. Also talk therapy is not helpful for plenty of people, as the patient can't access certain memories. And to be honest, it should be as easy as possible to see and then work on your trauma. It is often hard enough for people to even understand it. Psychedelics represent such a support for human beings. They deserve it.
Psychedelics are not pills. They are non specific amplifier of what is. That’s what makes them powerful. They are not a very easy way out. But they are the most sustainable one.
I know what Paul is saying. The appeal of taking something once over doing the long work of sorting one's sh*t out is quite appealing--even if it isn't an accurate way of looking at psychedelics it is very much how people think!
And still eventually it is still pointless. Many people repeat their thought patterns, over years. And can’t escape them. Psychedelics help to interrupt the repetition.
I'm not saying they can't help. I am saying that if there is a choice, pills are always favored in the states by doctors over therapy. Look at prozac for example.
right, so you just keep going down the same rabbit holes and not necessarily moving on.
yup talking to a therapist is a lot like hard work.