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imagine somebody slipped a tiny, barely detectable dose of meth in your morning coffee. barely above placebo. then they slowly start increasing it day by day. by the time it reache…

my inclination when hearing these stories is that these were people who just happened to have a first manic episode (which can strike anyone at any time with or without mental heal…

people in states of psychosis often behave in frightening ways out of their control, and do and say hurtful things to those around them. if someone hurts you or does something very…

all kinds of authoritarian regimes and movements certainly do this. that said... you just have to have a conversation with someone experiencing psychosis. it's a totally altered st…

I think they would say (reasonably accurately, tends to be exaggerated though) that traditional cultures all around the world did have psychedelic practices of one kind or another.…

some people should never take psychedelics. in the last few years' surge of popularity, I found that your typical psychedelic advocate* would never admit this category of people ex…

this is more or less exactly what i was trying to say. for most people SSRIs are safe, they experience manageable side effects and little health risk. psychedelics and dissociative…

i think that "we all want to get high on drugs" situations, like festivals, are actually a lot better. it's about personal choice. when i talk about psychedelic advocates, i mean t…

i generally consider myself an enemy of psychedelic advocates, because I think they want to make it effectively socially mandatory to do these drugs, which is really bad. ("sure, i…

it's pretty hard to establish causality for something like this, but you have: 1) very solid evidence of correlation at a population level 2) a lot of clinical experience from doct…

I support the legality of cannabis and alcohol. However, on an individual level, I think people need to know about the psychosis risks. It undoubtedly can trigger schizophrenia and…

cannabis is pretty safe for the average person, even heavy users. it's not good for you, but i think most of the effects like this are explained by selection effects. unhappy peopl…

i think if the main thing is “hearing voices” this kind of thing is probably a good strategy, but there are lots of other probably worse symptoms of psychosis.

this and other alternative schizophrenia treatments a very good thing when they work, which is relatively rare. as we can see from the comments here already, many people choose to …

in northeast urban areas, if someone uses y’all it means they are probably a left-wing/social justice oriented person. use is correlated with “folks”/“folx”. no idea why, maybe to …

people with lots of good things to do in their lives have less time to post. on platforms like twitter, this means that the posts are disproportionately made by people with unhappy…

the reality is the vast majority of students have no interest in seeing the beauty of any mathematical or technical field. they want the professor to tell them the passwords they n…

sometimes the obvious advice is the most important to hear. thanks for posting. unfortunately the nature of some health problems that require a caregiver, makes both the sufferer a…

i think we would agree a lot about the brutality and incompetence of the current system of psychiatric institutions. however, the reality is, psychosis frequently prevents people f…

well, okay, then we can say that a lot of people diagnosed with schizophrenia now, even if the concept of schizophrenia is not viable, do have biological disease(s) that cause psyc…

i'm getting very argumentative on the internet today (under a pseudonymous account because as you might guess from my incessant posting, this issue is personal for me) trauma (at a…

this is completely true, but they take up a very disproportionate amount of time and energy from social service providers, people who work in shelters, etc, and make all spaces for…

look, if someone has actually have a new drug that works like antipsychotics but doesn't have the nightmare side effects, i am very happy for that person to get filthy rich. if thi…

i'm curious what is the longest conversation you've ever had with an untreated schizophrenic person? it's so obviously a "real disease" even if we don't fully understand the biolog…

this is a good point about stock characters. a very lively and thriving art form can rely on these (as theater, movies, novels have at various times). that’s not all of what bother…