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@Carl-Richard @UDT @Danioover9000 @Inliytened1 @Vynce Thank you all for your perspectives!

Hi! Is there a natural way to keep muscles and general fitness without constant training? It may be a dumb question, but let me explain. It's been more than a year since I worked out appropriately, and I see that my muscles and general buffness have shrinked. But is there a way to prevent this? I don't ask in order to be lazy, but rather to understand how muscles work and to be more strategic in my life. For example, is there a way to train, get bigger, and then maintain muscles without proper full intense training, maybe with a little burst training once in a while? Thank you!

@Leo Gura Are you still planning to do a video on high consciousness relationships?

@VictorB02 Glad you liked it! Having had DMT-visuals, I thought the trip was too powerful to be a standard introduction.

Hi! Recently I've tried magic truffles, my first time doing psychedelics, and here's my trip report. It will be a pretty long report because I wanted to write about all I've learned, so at the end of each trip paragraph I've put a TL;DR section to summarize the contents. I was staying in a hotel with my girlfriend. I had my trip in the hotel room. Dosage 10 grams of "Atlantis" magic truffles. Intake Form Grinded magic truffles in room temperature green tea with 15 drops of lemon juice. More details below. Preparation: The Day Before I tried to eat healthy in the days before, and the day before I had only vegetables for dinner. Preparation: The Day Of The Trip Woke up late, around 10 am. I had a banana for breakfast at around 11 am, then went out to buy magic truffles with my girlfriend who also wanted to try them. We planned to take truffles around 1 pm (13:00). We bought a pack of 20 grams of "Atlantis" magic truffles, 10 grams each. At the store we also bought a plastic weed grinder to grind magic truffles. However we returned to the hotel late, at around 2:30 pm (14:30) and I was very hungry, I was pretty much fasting since dinner of the day before. But I decided not to eat anything. My girlfriend ate some food: we agreed that I would try truffles first, with her being my trip sitter, then we'd switch roles, because I'm more grounded and experienced with spirituality than her. After returning to the hotel, I started the preparation. I found online about mushrooms/truffles tea and lemon tekking, and I wanted to combine both of their effects: the tea and the lemon to avoid nausea, the lemon to make the trip faster (even though lemon makes the trip stronger as people report). So I grinded my 10 grams of truffles with the grinder and put the crumbs in a glass, then poured some tea over them and added 15 drops of lemon juice (just 15 because I didn't want my trip to be too powerful). Then I stirred the mix with a straw. After 5 minutes I added more tea and stirred again. After more 5 minutes the mix was ready and I drank it, at around 3 pm (15:00). The mix looked like an earthy and watered down schlob, with the truffles crumbs on the bottom of the glass. The taste was horrible: it was sour, and acid, and earthy, and the crumbs seemed like a sticky soup. I mean, the taste was bearable, but still horrible. I also drank the crumbs in order not to waste psylocibin. Then I sat on the bed, cross-legged, back on the wall with some cushions behind me. At this point I was anxious, because I knew that psychedelics are a powerful tool and I didn't know what to expect. TL;DR - Check "Intake Form" paragraph above. Horrible taste. The Trip: The Start During the first 30 minutes I was anxious, but nothing happened. After ~30 minutes I started to have nausea, like wanting to throw up, but it didn't happen. After ~35 minutes I also started to feel very tired, like I was lacking energies, and my body was starting to shutting down like it does when you go to sleep. My body wanted to surrender to this sensation of "melting" and fall asleep. I then searched through my notes about psylocibin and truffles to see if eating before the peak would end the trip, and I stumbled upon a comment from this forum which said that passing out during the peak can be terrifying. This scared me, but my anxiety was fighting this sleepy sensation. Fortunately I managed to stay awake, even though I was becoming more and more tired and relaxed. These feelings made me more talkative, and I started to talk non-stop about my experience and details about everything that came to mind (pretty much boring, mundane stuff). I'm not talkative, I have to make an effort to be it, so this feeling of being easily talkative was quite enjoyable to me. I felt like my throat was an open door through which energy passed freely as and how it wanted, while sober my throat is more like a closed door. However, my mouth was starting to be more difficult to control, and I had more difficulty articulating thoughts verbally. At some point I was feeling so tired and relaxed that I felt like laying down on the bed. So I did. When I lied down on the bed I noticed that my body was heavier, and it was a little more difficult to control my limbs. However my mind was still sharp and clear as before. After laying down on the bed, the feeling of tiredness subsided a bit and remained mostly the feeling of relaxation. After ~50 minutes I looked a wall to see if I'd see some visual effects. I'm not sure if it was placebo or not, but it seemed to me that the wall was slitghly more "inflated", like a balloon. After ~1 hour I grabbed a drawing I had by my side and I looked it to see if I saw other visuals. But no, still no visuals (I was checking for visuals to know when the interesting part of the trip would start). When I put the drawing in front of me my arm felt very heavy, it was difficult to keep it raised. When I put the drawing down, I saw a feeble light pattern on the wall, like when you look at something for long enough and then you look to a white wall and you see the same shape of the drawing on the wall. I think this was the start of visuals because the feeble pattern didn't go away. At some point my girlfriend started to tell me she was bored of waiting and she didn't know what to do in the meantime. Since I knew a trip can last many hours, since it was already late, since I took a newbie dose, and since the effects I had been mild up until that point, I allowed her to take her dose of truffles in about an hour. The idea was that she would have had the peak while I was having the comedown. And so we did (more details later, nothing bad happened, but still it was a VERY risky thing to do) (for the first 1 hour and half I kept telling my girlfriend the effects I was having, so that she could prepare herself). After ~1 hour and 10 minutes I tried to close my eyes to see if I saw some geometries, which I did. I then stayed a while with my eyes closed, focusing on the geometries. They were like a more complex and structured version of the geometries and patterns you see sober when you close your eyes. I also noticed that my sensation of relaxation transformed in a sensation of pleasure, emanating from the diaphragm area and expanding and diffusing nearby. This feeling of pleasure was accompanied by the feeling that nothing matters. Nothing mattered. This mood progressively increased. I also noticed that my bodily awareness started to increase: I felt my physical sensations more clearly, they were more "evident": the feeling of the shirt on my arms, the feeling of the sheets of the bed under me, the general flow of energy in my body, my emotions, etc. After ~1 hour and 15 minutes I reopened my eyes, but I couldn't still see on the walls the geometries I saw with my eyes closed. After ~1hour and 20 minutes I looked at another wall. On this wall there were photos of wool fabric. I looked at them, and briefly after I started to see the wool fabric spinning in a vortex-like manner. This was the first clear visual effect I saw. I then closed my eyes, to see if I saw more interesting geometries. This was the start of the peak. TL;DR - Nausea and sleepiness. Some cool visual effects. Pleasure in the body. Mood of "nothing matters". Increased awareness in the body. The Trip: The Peak I closed my eyes to see the geometries, and this was the start of the "dimensions" phase. Before tripping, I wanted to do some self-inquiry and to contemplate some aspects of reality, but during the trip that desire, that pull, that drive melted because of the bodily sensations and I preferred to relax and enjoy the show. I also stopped talking to my girlfriend because talking would interfere with the experience. After closing my eyes I started to see places rather than geometries: the first "dimension" I saw was a dimension with arabic machinery inside. I saw buildings with an arabic style, and inside them there were machines such as the ones you imagine you could find in a 18th century industry. But the machines were everywhere, and they overlapped. I couldn't find anything similar on the internet, but I found these images which can give you a remote idea of what I've experienced: (this last image is too cartoonish, too trippy, and too colourful, the dominant colours were beige and black) Then I saw the mushroom dimension, a dimension where I saw shapes of mushrooms, plants, energy (I don't remember this very well) in a twisted manner, with violet and dark green colours, which gave me gloomy, Tim Burton vibes, like the ones this photo gives me (the lower part of the image): Then I saw the dimension of pillars, a dimension where I saw striped black and white pillars, like this (which is not black and white though): And finally I saw a dimension, or rather a big shiny infinite hallway, with a neon purple color, full of ganesha statues all identical to each other, lined up to the sides of the hallway to infinity. It felt pretty much like this animation at 1:02:02, but my body was not there and I saw the hallway as a pure point of awareness looking to the hallway from up. All of these dimensions morphed, or they morphed while the dimensions changed. And I remember seeing symbols of eyes inside diamond shapes. It felt like DMT geometries/patterns/worlds, but not as vivid or intense because the dosage was too low. All these dimensions were tridimensional, rather than a pattern on a black screen (my eyes were closed). They felt like real places. I remember seeing the ganesha statues and thinking to myself: "Wait, why am I seeing ganesha statues? I'm not hindu, shouldn't I see symbols and iconography from my western culture?". So I focused my intention on seeing western symbols like Christ or something regarding the church (I'm not religious, just wanted to try) but I felt my will had no power there. At all. That dimension was being made from a deeper layer of my mind, a layer I didn't have access to. I don't know how much time this journey inside these dimension lasted, but I felt like I forgot time existed. During this journey I noticed other interesting stuff. I noticed that the sensations of pleasures became more intense and extended in all my body, like waves of pleasure washing my body. My internal bodily sensations become more vivid and evident, more noticeable, and also I felt a pull towards the ground (the bed I should say), like gravity had been amped. I felt a desire to drop into the bed, into that sensation, behind my back. A sensation telling me to surrender to the experience, to fall inside myself. I felt, intuitively and sensorially, that the experience and the substance were calling me, waiting for me kindly and patiently to surrender and fall into it. I also felt like the experience was telling me that I should have taken more than 10 grams. I felt like the bodily sensations were wrapping me, hugging me, making me full. All of this made the experience of the dimensions more "real", meaning that I forgot I was in my room with another person, and I felt fully immersed in the dimensions' reality. But at the same time I was a spectator: I felt like the dimensions I saw were a show to be watched, rather than an experience to be savored immersively. I didn't have to do anything, just watch. The dimensions I saw also felt like liminal realities: I felt like they were situated in the space between my point of awareness and reality (aka my room), between my point of awareness and the objects perceived. The progression of the show had a direction indipendent of my will. I felt like the dimensions I saw and their sequence had a purpose, a reason, a goal, but I didn't understand what it was. Focusing on other stuff rather than the show was futile and counterproductive to my enjoyment. At some point I tried to focus my will on directing the trip on another direction, insisting on it, and when I did that, for a millisecond I felt an authoritative warning from the dimension I was experiencing, intuitively telling me that if I had insisted on resisting the experience I would have gone into a bad trip. I immediately stopped and I surrendered to the experience, giving up my desire to contemplate stuff or do something else. The dimensions were alive, conscious, complex, infinite and vast. They were like a messanger that had something to tell me, and I understood that they were telling me a story, but I didn't understand the message. And at the same time I felt like those dimensions were governed by an entity (maybe more than one). I felt like this entity was communicating indirectly to me with the bodily sensations and the pleasure I perceived. And that pleasure was like a massage done to me while I was watching the show. And this massage felt like freedom from and for the body: my bodily tensions were more "accessible", meaning that I didn't have to make an effort to make them surface like I do when I do body-related healing practices. They were more accessible but I didn't have the desire to work on them, to solve them, unless I decided to do so: again I felt like a spectator of my body. Unfortunately when I felt the pull to the ground, the pull to fall into the experience, the call of the experience, I felt unable to do that fully because I had muscular tensions in my pelvic area (first chakra), which I addressed but couldn't solve. And at the same time the waves of pleasure intuitively showed me that tensions in the body are always my choice. If I'm tense, it's me choosing to be tense, and I can choose whenever I want to be relaxed. But sadly this doesn't apply easily to sober reality. Also, I noticed how the trip influenced my mind and thoughts. I noticed that while perceiving all of this stuff, my thoughts were more clear, more limpid, more evident, more nitid, "fuller" and without interferences or "background noise". They felt like putting glasses for the thoughts instead of glasses for the eyes, metaphorically speaking. Thoughts came up from nowhere already fully formed, from start to finish, and I understood that interferences are not an inherent quality of the thought: thoughts are always fully formed and clear, it's our mind which cover and blur and disturb them. It's us who add the disturbances to the thoughts. The clarity of my thoughts was remarkable, and since they were less disturbed by my mind, I felt more authentic, more in tune with what I really think. I felt having less moral filters. I accepted my thoughts more without recognizing I was doing it. Also, I noticed my thoughts being more nitid only where my focus and attentions went. And given this, I noticed that whenever I connected the dots regarding some topic or some reasoning, I felt the typical jolt of excitement you have when you have an insight (less intense though), even though I already had that insight. All of this made me appreciate how powerful awareness is, and made me understand a little more clearly what awareness is. This increased awareness made me more capable of seeing my personal and cultural biases in my reasonings, maybe because I felt my thoughts more "external", more like objects to be observed rather than something internal, something I consider part of me. In addition, this sensation of my thoughts feeling more external was characteristic of the whole experience: this trip made me more detatched from my thoughts and my bodily sensations. I felt like I was a single point of awareness around which were glued sensations and thoughts. My thoughts felt like belonging to someone else, like someone was telling me them, arising from nowhere. In the midst of all of this, while feeling like nothing mattered and with waves of pleasure rushing gently through my body, I watched the show. I felt that the overall experience came and went in 2-3 waves of intensity. When for the first time it went away I thought: "Nooo, the peak ended, I want it back!", and then it came again. At some point, I asked this question in my mind: "Can I see the entity responsible for the dimensions?". The next thought that arose was: "Yes, you can see it" or something along those lines (don't know if that answer was something I made up without being aware of it). But as the show I was seeing started to morph, I heard the door of the room opening, at about 6 pm (18:00). TL;DR - DMT-like conscious dimensions, waves of pleasure, increased awareness, thoughts more nitid, experience telling me to surrender and fall into it, and other lessons. The Trip: The Comedown When I heard the door opening I didn't understand why I heard it opening. I opened my eyes and saw my girlfriend going out. I asked what she was doing, and she said she was going outside the hotel to get some fresh air. I suddenly remembered that while I was experiencing my peak, she took her dose of truffles at about 5 pm (17:00) (she told me and I was aware of it when she told me, but I forgot). I tried to convince her to stay in the room, but I failed, and she went out. After thinking what to do (my mind and body were telling me to surrender to the experience and that nothing matters), I went after her and babysitted her until we returned to the room. She was mostly absorbed by simple visual effects. Nothing bad happened. While I babysitted her my mind came up with all sorts of thoughts in order to make me go to the room and finish enjoying the experience, but I stayed with her and when we returned to the room my peak had ended. One thing worth mentioning is that when I exited my room to go after her I walked the hallway of that floor, and I had the classic visual effect of seeing the hallway stretch more and more as you walk through it. But when I made enough steps to get to the elevator, even if it seemed to me like I hadn't still got there, I thought: "This is a visual effect, I know I'll get to the elevator". I blinked and I was near the elevator. This shift felt like waking up from a dream. After the peak I experienced calmness and relaxation in my body for 2-3 more hours (less intense though), gradually decreasing. I also had an headache that night. The Trip: The Days After To this day I feel like the experience brought some tiny changes in my psyche, mostly regarding subconscious tensions and worries, which seem to be permanent. Overall a wonderful experience, and I'm eager to try it again. Unfortunately my dose was too low for the lessons learned to seep in my mind deeply and change how I perceive reality or other stuff, but maybe next time will be better. I also learned that I may not need a trip sitter, I can trip solo if I'm careful and wise.

@Kshantivadin Thanks a lot!

@Kshantivadin And then there's me, who hasn't worked out appropriately for more than a year, lol. Do you mind sharing the study?

@Federico del pueblo @ValiantSalvatore @aurum @RendHeaven @Knowledge Hoarder @Michael569 @Hardkill Thanks everybody!

@Manusia As people gave plenty of useful pointers, masculinity grows when you face your fears, you remain grounded in yourself and your principles, and you act in your life with wise courage following your life purpose. This is the underlining theme of masculinity. Obviously masculinity has many sides that manifest in many ways in many situations, so it's useful to explore and learn it. Focus first on understanding real masculinity: if you don't know what real masculinity is, you'll have as a reference point a low quality or biased or distorted or corrupted definition of masculinity. First find the sources of highest quality information. Then learn from them. A powerful way is to find a role model and learn from it. But be aware that there are types of masculinity: I personally find Leo a healthy role model for "intellectual masculinity", David Deida a healthy role model for "sexual masculinity", and so on. I personally liked Elliot Hulse in the past for his "physical masculinity", but now he's become very toxic and I don't like him anymore. Be aware of him, he's not so aware of his biases. What about practice? How do you practice to become more masculine? You can learn the theory, but then what are you going to do? How to implement what you learn? There are many ways, like introspection, journaling, being aware of your behavioral patterns and aligning them with what you've learned if you find discrepancies, visualization, developing your life purpose, etc. A great way, in my opinion, is doing bioenergetics exercises. Masculinity can be absent for two reasons: it's repressed or it's not trained. Bioenergetics exercises can help you re-discovering it if it's repressed.

@PepperBlossoms A must for someone with CPTSD. It is more theoretical than practical, but as @puporing said, it's very comprehensive. I also recommend Healing The Shame That Binds You (also theoretical): this book made me realize how family roles should be and shouldn't be, and the shame that stems from unhealthy roles. Also, I underlined every page, it's full of nuggets of wisdom.

Hi! In a couple of weeks I'll have the opportunity to take some magic truffles (legally) with a trip sitter, and now I'm researching around dosages, harm reduction practices, effects, side effects, how to take them, truffles-mushrooms relationships and ratios, integration after the trip, etc. There's an issue that I still haven't found an answer to though. Since it will be my first time taking magic truffles/psylocibin, I don't know how much I'll be sensible to them and I don't know if I'll have unusual reactions. So I thought it'd be wise to take a little dose, less than a small dose, just to see if I have an unexpected reaction to the chimical compounds the truffles contain (which obviously contain more stuff that just psylocibin, since they are not pure psylocibin). Then, after that initial trial dose, if everything goes right I'm planning to take a normal dose, a dose right for a newbie (I'm still researching the right amount, which I'll take with the wisdom of the effects from the trial dose). However you should wait at least a week before tripping again. But this advice is given for normal or big amounts though, because you take a week off to integrate and not to develop tolerance. So I don't know if trying with a very small dose and then taking the normal one is okay, or if I should just take only the normal dose right away. I could try to take the trial dose and then, from there, build my way up to the normal dose. But since this will pretty much be a one-shot opportunity, it's either or. Also, let's assume that the normal dose will be mild for me, not satisfactory (keeping in mind that it's wise to take it easy the first times) and I want to take them again. It's not fully clear to me if I can take another normal dose of truffles the days following the first trip. Will they give smaller effects since I'll have developed tolerance (even though the first trip is mild)? Or will they give me a stronger trip the second time? And since here we have some experienced psychonauts, what about taking more truffles if I see that the normal dose in not enough? I mean taking them during the same trip, to increase the effects of the prior dose. I've found some info online that says the effects don't add up, but rather increase exponentially, and I'd like to have more perspectives on this. Thank you!

@Focus Shift Thanks dude! That book is already on my booklist!

How do you deal with that? Any advice? More and better self-promotion? More networking? Being an introvert, this seems a crucial sticking point for introverts or people with poor networking skills (which obviously is solved by improving your networking skills and social skills). How to strategically deal with this obstacle?

You cannot not have emotions (except for extreme cases of neurological disorders), but you can be so disconnected from them that you don't feel them at all. You may have suppressed, denied, rejected, disowned your emotions so much that you feel you don't have them. But you have them. And you can reconnect with them. In this case one of the best exercises to do is Emotional Vipassana, also known as Body Scan. It makes you more aware of emotions by making you more aware of your bodily sensation. Emotions btw are sensations in the body that have a charged meaning (a message) and that have a label (the name of the emotion). So, in order to heal the first step is to become aware: how can you deal with something you don't see/feel?

@ShardMare @Medhansh Check out my posts on healing:

@Michael569 I'm a little late, I know, but I was looking for research on K2 and D3, and I've found this article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49681076_Vitamins_D_and_K_as_Pleiotropic_Nutrients_Clinical_Importance_to_the_Skeletal_and_Cardiovascular_Systems_and_Preliminary_Evidence_for_Synergy In the paragraph titled: "Vitamin K-dependent Proteins Support Calcium Homeostasis" the author says that vitamin K (K2 too I guess) is a cofactor for the conversion of some proteins in vitamin-K-dependent (VKD) proteins, which MGP and Gas6 are part of. Here some of their functions: MGP is the VKD protein most closely linked to blood vessel wall health. It operates predominantly in the extracellular matrix of soft tissues (vascular, heart, lung, kidney, cartilage) to down-regulate calcium deposition. Gas6 (named for its gene, growth arrest-specific gene 6) has homeostatic support functions, growth factor properties, modulates inflammation, and facilitates immune disposal of dead cells. Gas6 is also linked to down-regulation of atherosclerotic plaque formation. So it makes sense for K2 to be used along D3 when you are D3 deficient (in supplements), since an increased intake of D3 causes better and increased absorption of calcium. I know that K2 is commonly found in vegetables, so there's not a risk of K2 deficiency if you eat healthy, but increased calcium could lead to an increased need of K2. What do you think about it? I've read an amazon review of a D3+K2 supplement by a guy who said that taking a D3 supplement gave him headaches, but when he switched to a D3+K2 supplement it made his headache go away. Don't know if this is true.

@Irina Wolf This is already a great starting point in awareness, you understand the issue is multi-layered and convoluted. Meditation and sedona method can be helpful but they don't deal with the root causes, or if they do you must be very skilled to go straight to the core of the problem and release it. If you can do psychedelics go for them. If you want to heal, you need to decide which approach you want to use: body-based approach or emotional/energetic approach. For the body-based approach (not recommended if you don't have adequate awareness of your psyche and your subconscious dynamics), shamanic breathing/holotropic breathwork and bioenergetics exercises are great tools. Bioenergetics exercises deal with subconscious tensions in the body so as to heal traumas, suppressed emotions and "emotional stiffness". Look for them on youtube, specifically for the throat and the mouth. For the emotional/energetic approach (recommended if you have little awareness) you must do three things: Gain more awareness regarding this problem: when it started, why it started, why you do this, what are the benefits (there are always benefits, so find them), which inner conflict that behavior is the reflection of (another way of saying this is: which parts of you are in conflict), which beliefs are at the core of the behavior. Observe the feelings that you feel when you notice yourself enacting the behavior, so as to identify the sensations that trigger the behavior. Just do the best you can. Start amplifying the sensations of anger and powerlessness (don't amplify the biting) so as to understand the message they are carrying. Ask these emotions why do they exist, what do they mean. Listen to them, hear them, feel them, love them unconditionally. Do some exercises that give you access the root causes (which possibly is an emotional blockage or even a serious trauma you might think it's not that serious) of the behavior: inner child work, parts work/two chairs exercise, visualization, NLP integration exercises. I've not included bioenergetics exercises here because they deal with the root causes, but don't usually make you aware of them. They just get the stuff done. Bioenergetics exercises however usually require more time and consistency than these exercises listed here. This pillars are not something you do once. You do them for as long as it needs to be done, i.e. until the problem is sufficiently solved. This journey won't be not easy, but I think you'll discover some interesting stuff about yourself while on it. If you need more info check out other posts of mine on healing, where I dig deeper in the healing process and give more exercises and practices.

@Rahul 2paradox Don't know if your issue is only emotional/psychological/energetical, but I'll give you some info from this perspective. Start to research throat chakra, what is it, why it can be closed, how to open it. Don't focus on bullshit like at-home remedies, bowl sounds, spices, minerals, and other new agey stuff. Start unraveling the whys of your psyche, start being more in tune with your throat, start doing inner child work, shamanic breathing, gestalt therapy (two chairs exercise/parts work), emotional vipassana, visualization, NLP integration exercises, visualizations, bioenergetic exercises, etc. Start doing serious stuff. Your introversion is a systemic thing with systemic causes, which right now is manifesting to you as inability to speak and be heard to a serious degree. Check out my posts for more instructions on healing practices, I've been healing for 5 years. However, remember to follow your discernment and not to hurt yourself and to try stuff which seems to be right for you. If something doesn't feel right, try something else, but be mindful of why it doesn't feel right, and don't judge something only because you tried once and it didn't go well or as planned. Don't squander, be committed.

Check out this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/mandemee/comments/hy2bgh/my_erotic_blueprint/

Check out some posts of mine, I have several ones on healing, traumas, exercises, methods, belief system, conditioning, work on shadow and subconscious, ecc. They are extensive, comprehensive and offer step-by-step advice.

You could say in the next video on how to get laid to scan for affordable hotels in the area where you do game, for the explorative phase

@Leo Gura Any ideas for how to do game and set up dates if you're distant 15-30 minutes from a big city and you're not yet capable of moving to a high volume area?

@Leo Gura Have you identified the issue?

@Leo Gura Dewey Larson

It already exists. It's called therapy