kidklmx
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Hello friends,
Haven't said much around here, because long story short: I have been institutionalized in an open psychiatric facility to get my autism (PDD-NOS) under control. Now, however, my drug use has been put in to question. Didn't really plan on sharing that with them, but it's already in my psychiatric dossier from earlier psychotherapy. I'm not going to lie about me stopping to use drugs (mainly psychedelics), and given my knowledge on the subject I've been having this endless argument. Luckily for me however, the supervising psychiatrists is well versed in drug (ab)use and has now given me the task to do a write-up on the positive and negative effects of my use. I guess he thinks I'm sweet-talking my drug use, which I'm not.
I want to do this right though, and there's little information (especially when you have to deal with pay walls) on autism and psychedelics. One thing that scares me is that from a brain volumetrics perspective schizophrenia and autism have an overlap. (especially when you look at a disorder like MCDD) Brain volumetrics has a direct control over the distribution of receptor types, so there's an inherent danger here.
So does any of you lot have experience with autism and "LSD-psychosis", or even better, can point me to a study which deals with this issue? Or maybe there's a different problem here that I'm not seeing? Your help is much appreciated
p.s If you mods think this question would be better suited for ADD then you can move it.
Haven't said much around here, because long story short: I have been institutionalized in an open psychiatric facility to get my autism (PDD-NOS) under control. Now, however, my drug use has been put in to question. Didn't really plan on sharing that with them, but it's already in my psychiatric dossier from earlier psychotherapy. I'm not going to lie about me stopping to use drugs (mainly psychedelics), and given my knowledge on the subject I've been having this endless argument. Luckily for me however, the supervising psychiatrists is well versed in drug (ab)use and has now given me the task to do a write-up on the positive and negative effects of my use. I guess he thinks I'm sweet-talking my drug use, which I'm not.
I want to do this right though, and there's little information (especially when you have to deal with pay walls) on autism and psychedelics. One thing that scares me is that from a brain volumetrics perspective schizophrenia and autism have an overlap. (especially when you look at a disorder like MCDD) Brain volumetrics has a direct control over the distribution of receptor types, so there's an inherent danger here.
So does any of you lot have experience with autism and "LSD-psychosis", or even better, can point me to a study which deals with this issue? Or maybe there's a different problem here that I'm not seeing? Your help is much appreciated
p.s If you mods think this question would be better suited for ADD then you can move it.