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As someone who has had positive results from mixing ptsd and psychedelics without professional guidance, it’s a stupid thing to do. Psychedelics are great and when done properly they’re great for ptsd, but also a veteran having a challenging trip alone will be in a pretty bad position, but not all unpleasant trips are ultimately positive, and with ptsd it could make your trauma actively worse.
There’s other treatments as well, but “just try psychedelics” is a dangerous statement
I didnt say “do random drugs without thinking about consequences or set&setting”, but I also didnt think id need to explicitly tell people what to do and not do when I was trying to insert an alternative option. Certainly someone wanting to try a new drug MIGHT consider the effects of said drug before consuming. Or ya know, do their own research on why its an alternative option.
Tbf tho, I want to ty bc you gave a detailed response. Thanks for adding to the conversation.
Yeah I’ve just seen a lot of positivity without acknowledgement of the fact that there are serious functional differences between following best solo trip practices and what is being tried as a therapy. The main danger I see is that I have seen people who see the positivity without nuance and start to see it as a miracle treatment or who think that when we talk about it it’s more like taking most medicines as opposed to the reality that there’s a good chance it’s gonna be fuckin rough and part of how you get positive results comes from having a background in healthier coping mechanisms and practices. CBT techniques for example are something that really helped me get through the rough parts of my last challenging trip. One of the suspected mechanisms of action last I checked was exposure while in an altered state. The trips that help are sometimes not terrible, but they’re not the fun trips. I did research on lsd before I tripped, but I didn’t get much warning of the fact that the healing would involve confronting the trauma.
But yeah I know people who did psychedelics for years and recommend against them because of bad trips.
It’s an effective and powerful tool, but I’m grateful we’re pursuing other tools as well as destigmatizing and refining it.
As someone who has had positive results from mixing ptsd and psychedelics without professional guidance, it’s a stupid thing to do. Psychedelics are great and when done properly they’re great for ptsd, but also a veteran having a challenging trip alone will be in a pretty bad position, but not all unpleasant trips are ultimately positive, and with ptsd it could make your trauma actively worse.
There’s other treatments as well, but “just try psychedelics” is a dangerous statement
Dangerous is a strong word.
I didnt say “do random drugs without thinking about consequences or set&setting”, but I also didnt think id need to explicitly tell people what to do and not do when I was trying to insert an alternative option. Certainly someone wanting to try a new drug MIGHT consider the effects of said drug before consuming. Or ya know, do their own research on why its an alternative option.
Tbf tho, I want to ty bc you gave a detailed response. Thanks for adding to the conversation.
Yeah I’ve just seen a lot of positivity without acknowledgement of the fact that there are serious functional differences between following best solo trip practices and what is being tried as a therapy. The main danger I see is that I have seen people who see the positivity without nuance and start to see it as a miracle treatment or who think that when we talk about it it’s more like taking most medicines as opposed to the reality that there’s a good chance it’s gonna be fuckin rough and part of how you get positive results comes from having a background in healthier coping mechanisms and practices. CBT techniques for example are something that really helped me get through the rough parts of my last challenging trip. One of the suspected mechanisms of action last I checked was exposure while in an altered state. The trips that help are sometimes not terrible, but they’re not the fun trips. I did research on lsd before I tripped, but I didn’t get much warning of the fact that the healing would involve confronting the trauma.
But yeah I know people who did psychedelics for years and recommend against them because of bad trips.
It’s an effective and powerful tool, but I’m grateful we’re pursuing other tools as well as destigmatizing and refining it.