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Magic mushrooms ‘can improve sex lives in struggling marriages’
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Lol. If your relationship has improved significantly becsuse you've taken some short term acting drugs then it either wasn't a problem in the first place or you're lying to yourself.
Are people here not in relationships? You must have intense fantasies to think long term issues can be solved by short term solutions.
That's the thing, psychedelics may be short term acting drugs but the experiences they allow can have lasting, profound effects on our perception of the world. You can't make generalization on all drugs, they're all so different, that's nonsensical. I highly recommends you read "How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan, that's a great introduction to the subject.
https://michaelpollan.com/books/how-to-change-your-mind/
I don't disagree they can have great effects, but the research is way too limited on it.
Again, given the actual issue - there are far better researched and understood ways of dealing with it than just taking some drugs and hoping for the best of it.
And yes, myself and friends have taken psychedelics. I recall needing to stop my friend from cutting his penis off as he was hallucinating it was attacking him. Great solid experience.
I'm sure there's safe dosages and if done under supervision it's fine, but we're nowhere near that at the moment and you're just as likely to have a bad experience as anything profound and good imo.
I am having a hard time believing your story. What drugs did you take? How much? What’s wrong with your friend in general?
Well set and settings is everything with psychedelics. There is a huge difference between a trip with friends at a party, an environment that can feel very hostile while triping, and a trip by yourself in a safe, calm and comfortable place which will ends up much more instrospective. You rarely get profound, lasting, altering experiences with the former.
This is not trying to deny the usefulness of other ways to deal with it, that just one more possible tool.
This is exactly the point. This and other studies like it are validating these routes to healing and this guy’s still drinking the Nancy Reagan DARE Kool-Aid. If there’s any truth to his story, then he’s digging his heels in about one piece of anecdotal evidence while ironically suggesting that a study of 300 is too small of a sample size to be relevant.
Acid will not solve your relationship problems but it will make you more vulnerable with each other and it will force you to confront any feelings you've been hiding from them or yourself. It's the extra kick in the ass you sometimes need to get things rolling
Exactly. I’ve had some of my most emotionally vulnerable conversations with my wife during and post trip. It helps you look at your life in a different lenses and really question your current ego and perceptions.
I don't totally disagree with the sentiment of what you're saying, but it's worth giving a cursory glance at psychedelic research before you totally write it off. One of the things that's been documented is an increased ability to access compassion for yourself and others. Another suggests that psilocybin could help reform maladaptive neural pathways.
It's not like "ingest a substance and your problems will go away," it's more like "this is one tool that could be helpful in some specific ways." Psychedelics are legitimately different from other substances and I think it's worth reading about with a hair less cynicism. It's potentially very useful medicine.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/research/psychedelics-research
Sometimes a bandage helps to stop the bleeding.
Sometimes bandages are left on too long and wounds fester.
Bandages can be useful sometimes, but care must still be taken.
The anecdote sort of works, but in my version, you're putting a bandage on a broken bone. I mean, sure, maybe it'll help but there's better ways of doing it based on what we know.