TherapyGary
@TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Being a bodyless head with a freak long tongue is not only okay—it can be an exciting opportunity
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It is a real thing but that pic is fake
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 1 week ago:
<3
I get lazy bc irl I get to just rely on my authority instead of actually explaining myself lol
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 2 weeks ago:
There’s a broad push in the therapeutic psychedelic community to use the term “challenging” instead of “bad” because semantics and framing matter. I know it can be annoying, but some words carry an unfortunate connotation that’s best subverted by using a different word altogether.
I do take issue with the words “bad” and “good” in general, but I wouldn’t say that there are no experiences which can be described as bad. (I’m also an amoralist and believe nothing is inherently “bad,” so at least I’m consistent, however unpopular)
I recommend Frankl because I realize this sounds inherently invalidating, and if anyone is allowed to say it, it’s a holocaust survivor. I’d recommend “Man’s Search for Meaning”, which he wrote shortly after being liberated from a concentration camp.
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 2 weeks ago:
Kind of, yeah. If you think this is dumb (beyond your reductionist take, I mean), I’d genuinely recommend you read Viktor Frankl (I ignore the religious stuff tho, personally, tbc)
It’s a specifically important distinction to make for psychedelics though. If you go into it thinking bad trips are real, you’re more likely to have one, and you’re more likely to have a defeatist attitude afterward creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Especially when using psychedelics therapeutically, it’s extremely beneficial to go into it with the mindset that there’s no such thing as a bad trip. It reduces the odds of having a challenging trip in the first place, makes them less challenging when they do happen, and improves successful integration of challenging trips afterward
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 2 weeks ago:
People don’t like to hear it because it sounds like invalidating toxic positivity, but you’re right. Aside from fringe cases, there’s no bad trips- only challenging trips. It may even be traumatic, but that doesn’t make it an inherently bad trip- it’s all about how you respond to it and what you do with it after.
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When I was a young moron, often making long drives at night on unlit roads, I would watch videos while driving by placing my phone on the dashboard and watching the reflection on the windshield
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My older brother used to call me “butt munch” all the time as a kid. I never stopped to consider what that even meant, let alone consider he’d end up quite correct
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Lol @ @muttmutt@lemmy.world downvoting everything in this post
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1,000,000% this
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I’ve actually done this and it was genuinely good- tasted like pizza
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I love this song by Naethan Apollo about the UHC CEO, Death of a Profiteer. Hoping he releases another banger about this one
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