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1 hour ago, Shrooms_Alvarez said:I don’t fully know how the sessions work but I’m guessing it’s like that.
I've had extensive talks with psychedelic therapists and their sessions are not like that.
Psychedelic therapy is done at the layer of reframing beliefs and thoughts, similar to CBT.
Which goes faster under the influence of psychedelics, for sure.
But the underlying trauma is not released.
And you really should not do that in psychedelic therapy either, it's incompatible with it because it opens up the repressive system too much.
Unaddressed trauma, when it pushes up to the surface, creates anxiety symptoms, panic attacks, hypervigilance.
And it will keep pushing up as long as it sits there.
The problem I see is that people want to take magic pills that will help them get a cure in a few sessions, and "reframe" their trauma.
It doesn't work that way.
These issues come from tons of emotional pain that was incurred at a time where you were too young and vulnerable to fully understand it, so it's like a debt that has to be paid.
You pay that debt by feeling.
Feeling the unfelt emotional pain that was stored for later.
That's how you become free of symptoms.
Like this dude:
Psychedelics have helped me a lot with insight and growth, and I went through a phase where I was super hyped about psychedelic therapy, but I no longer am so hyped. I think psychedelic therapy is a faster, better version of CBT, but it's still pretty surface level, and going to deeper layers of trauma under the influence of psychedelics is just not safe, and not something psychedelic therapists (should) do.
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9 hours ago, Shrooms_Alvarez said:I’ll check it out!!! The thing is that most techniques and methods out there that involve overcoming social anxiety and other fears don’t seem to be effective for me. And as I mentioned above, I was hoping to find a method that can help me overcome fear without having to face it if that makes sense. Leo mentioned in his 2 part series about fear that while Psychedelics shouldn’t be your only tool when dealing with fear, they are the most powerful.
Well I can teach you how to work through it in the comfort of your own living room, without substances. But it’s still going to feel emotionally difficult.
I do think that is the best way: just exposure therapy by repeating social behaviour can work to dissociate you from your real self and just build calluses on your personality… which means the socialising would not feel fulfilling to you since it’s not your real self doing it, if that makes sense.
@Shrooms_Alvarez playlist for you, hope it helps:
and the link in my signature might be interesting to you depending
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Supersmart dot com
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An acetylcholine boosting brain nutrient like DMAE might also help. Never tried it for covid because I didn’t know about it yet, but now I take it for winter depression and it seems to work wonders. Combine with choline. Only starts to work at day 4 or so
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52 minutes ago, Shrooms_Alvarez said:Quick question. In regards to using Psychedelics for Trauma and Deep-Rooted Fears, how can I go about doing that exactly? I know it’s process but how does it work?
Do not use psychedelics for trauma and deep rooted anything, it is not safe. Do trauma release sober.
As for how: I have a course on it and also free videos on my YouTube
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3 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:How long did you take them for?
In my experience they worked instantly. But I didn’t take them for covid related brain fog, it was a different brain fog (adhd/sleep deprivation/exhaustion related) so it would be an experiment. They’re harmless though
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Does not make sense in my opinion.
What would you do if your genetic profile shows an increased risk for diabetes?
You would try to eat healthy, minimize sugar intake and minimize blood sugar spikes.
Perhaps take metformin if you're a biohacker type.
But: you should do that anyway if you're into health. Don't need the test for that.
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Clearly snake-oil
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On 23/11/2023 at 0:01 AM, guitarguy251 said:Does anyone have experience/knowledge of symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy? I have been experiencing symptoms for 4 months. Cold sensations, pins and needles, numbness and tingling happen in my hands and feet. Sometimes achy arms. Makes it hard to play guitar, which is my career.
Doctors are having trouble finding the cause. All that was found was my B6 is high (26.7 ng/mL) and my vitamin D is low (20 ng/mL) . For a month they've been treating me with amitryptaline 25 mg and Vitamin D3 5000 IU, and I stopped taking my B complex and multivitamin because of the the high B6. I also had long COVID since June 2022 but these neuropathy symptoms are new as of August 2023.
Normal A1C checking for diabetes (4.4%), thyroid, syphilis blood test negative, B12 (370 and later 449 pg/mL), blood tests were normal except high monocytes auto (10.4), Iron was normal (96 mcg/dL), Ferritin was okay (44 ng/mL).
I actually got it several times, every time it was my own fault for taking a supplement that had a high level of vitamin B6.
Apparently I'm sensitive to that and get the pins and needles and muscle twitching easily.
But it went away after I stopped taking it.
I'd try taking a high quality fish oil to remyelinate your nerve endings, and actually keep the multivitamin if it's properly balanced.
And perhaps the nerve growth stimulating effect of psilocybin microdosing could help too.
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Anyone looking to medicate sleep issues should give picamilon a shot, I looked into the biochemistry of it and it looks natural-adjacent and healthy to me.
Just a vitamin B3 coupled with a GABA molecule, the B3 helps it get through the blood brain barrier.
The body then breaks it down back into GABA and vitamin B3 which are harmless.
I like it, taking it occasionally when my mind is too active to fall asleep.
It's freely available through online nootropics vendors.
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@Carl-Richard I had the covid brain fog too, the first time. I was quite panicked because I had never experienced such a mental incapacitation before.
I've had covid again since and didn't get the brain fog again, it was no big deal the second time.
I take Astragalus supplements when I have brain fog, they seem to clear it up nicely.
This plant boosts the immune system in certain ways that also helps it to clear out viruses.
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Yes.
And taking MDMA with SSRI's (which Zoloft is) is really dangerous, what are you doing.
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11 hours ago, Shrooms_Alvarez said:I never thought about that, lol. Is it easy to tell if someone’s on Molly?
Yes.
12 hours ago, Raze said:You are better off using them for neediness trauma releases in conjunction with other inner game practices to improve your baseline.
Basically this. Social anxiety comes from trauma (people are by design not aware of what their trauma is so you might have an automatic defense against this statement)
finding the trauma and working through it fixes the problem permanently. Though it can take years, at least it's a permanent solution that will grow you and make you happier in other ways too.
As for the question whether MDMA improves social anxiety: yes, for the 2-3 times a year that you would take it.
But only during those trips.
And you could only enjoy the benefits at parties where other people are doing drugs, and the "mdma face" is socially acceptable.
It's nice, I did it, but I can't say it improved my social anxiety beyond those party nights.
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3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:The old Twitter was professionally managed. Now it runs on the whims of a narcissistic man-child.
He's not an anti-semite. He's just immature, narcissistic, unprofessional, and surrounded by yes-men who cannot check him. Elon Musk thinks he knows better than everyone, which makes him act like fool sometimes.
All true but you should really stop throwing around the term "narcissism", I do not believe you know what it actually means.
But let's check that: how is narcissism defined according to you?
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28 minutes ago, Alexop said:Omg so many Elon Musk fan boys everywhere. This is why I love personal development, it is very hard to be done right, you can't just listen to a father figure to do it right as you would do for learning a basic skill like making money. But yea, getting attached to gurus and ideologies is a hard stage to overcome, god help you kids.
So if you agree with the stance he takes, you're automatically a fan boy who is projecting a father figure?
Not sure where the gurus and ideologies thing is coming from, that's neither here nor there since Elon is not a guru nor an ideologue. He's not really preaching anything or convincing anyone of his stance, he's just acting on what he believes in a powerful way. And making a complete ass of himself on his own platform, that too.
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@An young being I didn’t. Just corrected it. Maybe one of the mods trolled me by changing it when they assigned me all those warning points? Dunno 🤷🏼♀️
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8 hours ago, meow_meow said:most people who I know that have managed to change this it's either religion or relocating and cutting contact.
I’m no exception. I think that’s the move.
Could you please elaborate on this more? What retreats and activities?
I went to TNT level 1,2, then 5 and 4, then 1 and 2 again. (Thenewtantra.com)
Gained 4-6 friends there who are into spirituality and business.
I went to Puja Lepp’s Primal childhood deconditioning retreat, which is the best therapy retreat I have ever heard of or come across. (Pujalepp.com)
Gained one really good friend there.
I went to Toastmasters and gained a friend there, he invited me to a men’s group and gained another friend there.
I went to a 10 week acting course and gained a good friend there. All these people are still good friends and replaced the drug friends.
Are you a social person (I'm assuming you are)?
I’m not a recluse, but I’m more the tight inner circle of 4-6 kind of guy , I’m not extraverted. Although I suppose I have about 8 close friends, but not all of them I talk to every week/month.
How old were you?
I was 26.
How did you meet your girlfriend?
She PM’d me on this forum because she liked my journal.
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@Inder This sounds like birth trauma symptoms that got leaked because LSD weakened the repression system.
We all have some trauma stored in our system because of being born, which is very traumatic, but for most of us it is safely locked away by repression.
Birth trauma symptoms tend to be very physical and visceral, involving the heart and gut, cramps and pains, and the feeling/thought content is usually related to death, almost dying, wanting to die, or fighting for life.
I've seen it many times where LSD weakened the repression and now someone has new symptoms that get leaked.
It's a guess, but it's my best guess.
If you'd like to have an explanation, read Imprints: The Lifelong Effects of the Birth Experience, and The Biology of Love, both books by Arthur Janov.
If those books make sense for what you're going through, paths to healing will follow from there.
Definitely do not take LSD again, if my guess is right, the advice to continue with psychedelics is dangerous and will make it worse, not better.
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5 hours ago, meow_meow said:I want to quit because we all know how brutal the comedowns and hangovers can be, and they've gotten way worse since I hit 30 also I can see where this is leading if I don't stop. The holes in the budget they leave are not pleasant either.
Good reasons, but proven to be not good enough to make you stop.
It's good to acknowledge this.
No judgment here.
5 hours ago, meow_meow said:Searching for purpose is an ongoing process without any significant results yet
Why?
Could the lack of significant results be blamed on the partying?
How many small bets could you have made if you hadn't been partying or hung over?
5 hours ago, meow_meow said:Any tips?
If you want to make a successful change, it's good to think of yourself not as one person, but as a system of people.
You have many different modes.
Right now, you can contemplate and come up with all these good reasons to not want to do this partying and drugs anymore, but your friday-night-and-bored self is a different person with different priorities, and will not value these contemplations as highly, if he remembers them at all.
Therefore, to change a system, make a systemic change.
Cut contact with the party friends and consider relocating. Anything less is probably not going to work.
Once you cut contact, you will need other people to socialize with.
I certainly did. The hole needs to be filled.
So you need to fall in with a healthier crowd.
I went to a bunch of retreats and activities through which I made more ambitious friends with a healthier lifestyle.
You need a couple of those too, so that your need to socialize is covered.
And find a compelling "why" for yourself.
If you want to have a life purpose the way Leo defines it, go do the course and execute, no excuses.
If you don't need a life purpose a la Leo, that's fine too, then find another compelling why / vision, and find new friends with similar values and goals.
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16 minutes ago, meow_meow said:Have you managed to reorganize your lifestyle?
Yes. Some years ago I was drinking and snorting speed every second week-end or so.
Now, I don't do any of that shit and have not for 4 or 5 years.
I might have a few drinks once a month.
18 minutes ago, meow_meow said:How did you do it
I stopped hanging out with people who do party drugs.
First I moved to a different city, which was enough to lose touch with them.
Then I even moved to a different country.
19 minutes ago, meow_meow said:how do you spend your weekends?
Besides the mundane stuff like gym, household chores and grocery shopping: playing chess / reading at coffee places, going to the movies / spa with girlfriend, talking and having non-alcoholic drinks with friends, going for the occasional hike, doing some work for my business.
But besides that, I think the real answer is "I started having a really important reason to not get fucked up on the weekends" - basically, I started entrepreneuring and know that nothing will come of my ambitions if I don't spend my leisure time in a healthy way.
If you've got a kushy job and no ambitions to work on on the side, also no children, I don't see a compelling reason why you would quit partying.
Why do you want to?
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@Emotionalmosquito You're in a prison of your own making.
- You choose to not have a job
- You live with your parents
- Your mental health is poor at the moment, otherwise you wouldn't have such negative attitudes about things
- Your poor mental health makes you needy
- And your social calibration is poor too
And somehow, you expect a hot girl to jump on your dick with her bloody vagina and STAY THERE to become your girlfriend?
For what future prospect, what can you offer her at the moment?
- You have an extremely negative attitude, so you're not going to be fun to hang out with.
- Neither do you have anything going for you career wise. So you're not going to be a boyfriend to be proud of
- I doubt you've got a healthy circle of friends who respect you, which she could socialize with and give her the feeling that she made the right choice.
Nothing. Your value proposition to women is all cost, no value at the moment.
It's completely irrational to think you would get a quality girl to become your girlfriend in this state.
You're the male equivalent of a morbidly obese woman with a mustache who doesn't wash herself, expecting a prince on a white horse to show up to her house and propose to her.
Here's the way out:
- Get quality therapy to up your mental health
- Get a job and a life purpose so you contribute to society
- Drop the diva attitude about it, you're not too good for a job, in fact you're at the bottom of society now, having a job would be a step up for you
- Invest in some retreats to help with your social calibration and connection to women
If you do not fix your mental health, you are just going to become more bitter. Pickup is not going to work for you from this state, believe me.
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On 25/11/2023 at 2:10 AM, Mada_ said:Because I’m in my 20s and have high stamina, want to put away a very large amount of savings for 12 months.
Sure but with high stamina and no cost of living you could exponentially grow your business faster with 8 hours more a day… you’d get those savings too without distracting yourself with a job
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3 minutes ago, CARDOZZO said:I'm contemplating.
Thanks for your words and POV, they matter a lot.
Appreciate you.
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On 25/11/2023 at 4:44 PM, Emotionalmosquito said:Should I get a minimum wage cuck job with a dick head boss and rotten pieces of human fucking garbage coworkers that shit on me for not knowing how to do the job perfectly and making lots of mistakes because I’m a slow learner? And do this on top of my mountain of addictions and already zero patience for human bullshit?
Yes, that’s probably exactly what you should do. This post stinks of self pity and arrogance. What are you, too good to take a humiliating job for a while like all of us probably did at some point?
You can save a few grand in a few months. If you see avenues that might help you take them. Suck it up and do whatever it takes, my friend. What else are you going to do, sit on your parents’ couch and do nothing but complain and feel too good to be part of “rotten humanity”?
Boo hoo.
You need a kick in the butt more than you need anything else.
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No.
Barbiturates and benzodiazepines are GABA-agonists, they are foreign substances that either pretend to be GABA and fool the receptors, or make the receptors more sensitive somehow.
And because they're not endogenous substances they can have all sorts of nasty side effects or damage the nervous system somehow.
(benzodiazepines shorten lifespan, research says)
This is literally GABA.