Psychedelics Benefits Risks
Cluster centers on debates about psychedelics' therapeutic benefits for perspective shifts and mental health versus risks like psychosis and personality changes, including personal experiences and calls for caution.
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Psychedelics have changed my outlook and life. I recommend looking into them.
How do you know the psychedelics are what fixed you?
Psychedelics are sometimes recreational but they can do more.
Sorry you have such a reference class. I think the "lose grip with reality" is only temporary - the next day (and even earlier) you have memories of what went on, but your mind is back to "normal". I've had numerous psychedelic experiences (blissful, terrifying, etc) with both LSD and mushrooms, and none have fundamentally changed what I think about the world (believing the general scientific consensus about atoms, etc).What drugs like this can do is make you more emp
Arenβt psychedelics extremely likely to cause psychosis in users?
Psychedelics can help with this.
Let's just say I am very drug positive and believe in decriminalization of everything and legalization of everything non habit forming.Psychedelics are powerful drugs. It's hard to know if someone can help themselves out of a bad trip or if they will spiral further. It's hard to know how much the people around them can help if things become difficult. They don't always change your perspective in a positive way. I am not saying the drugs are the reason for anything bad, but
Sounds like psychedelic drugs, used properly (unlike the author), are a safer alternative. Who'd have thought?
Psychedelics don't tend to cause permanent shifts in people who already know themselves quite well, especially people who have explored their world view, read philosophy and psychology and so on. It's more likely to have that effect on people who were already in denial, of their belief system, or relationship, or political views, because it often forces you to confront the hidden/denied parts of your psyche. This can be incredibly liberating for some people, scary for others, whil
Fits with why we take psychedelics I guess.