11–20 of 133 posts
This Jennifer “Mimi” Pham seems like a real piece of work. Real scumbag behaviour.
As they say "it's lonely at the top" so people like to be part of those inner circles and take advantage of those who can.
Dissociatives (e.g., ketamine, nitrous oxide, xenon, phencyclidine, dextromethorphan in cough syrup) are too addictive, too pleasurable, and reliably produce long-lasting delusional states (e.g., as observed in John C. Lilly and Marcia Moore and Tony Hsieh). It is disturbing to read Marcia Moore's "Journeys Into the Bright World" ( http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/journeysbrightworld.pdf ) where she recounts that John…
Citation needed.
What a tragic end to this man’s life. The “personal alarm clock” gets me more than a lot of the other behaviors, as it would be quite alienating and disrespectful to have a friend make such an absurd offer to you.
Whats sad is how everyone simply took advantage of him.
This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…
She’s fortunately still alive, but when I divorced my ex-wife over her substance abuse, she walked away with ~$1M in cash.
It took three years of partying, but she finally ran out of money, hit rock bottom, went to AA, and is actually looking for a job.
It was sad to watch, and infuriating to be forced to be her enabler by the state after she’d already cost me so much. No-fault divorce is a broken system.
I'm strongly reminded of Howard Hughes, as mentally ill, drug-addicted prisoner of his "staff".
Hughes was a direct part of Watergate.
I'm strongly reminded of Howard Hughes, as mentally ill, drug-addicted prisoner of his "staff".
Still, to this day, there is no amazing treatment for it. Especially because there are more than a few not well understood causes of it. Some medications work well for some, but not at all for others.
Hughes was, by all accounts, essentially a prisoner of his unrelenting misfiring nervous system. I think he lived out his final years with it in a fairly reasonable way.
Speaking as somebody with a moderate case of allodynia caused by a functional musculoskeletal condition, if my case was a bit worse, with no hope for treatment in sight, and I was loaded like he was - I too would likely spend my time in isolation and on a lot of drugs, really anything that would relieve the sensory pain, no matter how cognitively impaired it may make me.
Dissociatives (e.g., ketamine, nitrous oxide, xenon, phencyclidine, dextromethorphan in cough syrup) are too addictive, too pleasurable, and reliably produce long-lasting delusional states (e.g., as observed in John C. Lilly and Marcia Moore and Tony Hsieh). It is disturbing to read Marcia Moore's "Journeys Into the Bright World" ( http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/journeysbrightworld.pdf ) where she recounts that John…
> NOT prone to abuse Citation needed.
"Psilocybin is not considered to be addictive nor does it cause compulsive use" - [0]
[0]: https://drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/are-psilocybin-mushrooms-a...