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Bluelighter
I noticed that a lot of you guys seem to be struggling with depression and other issues.
I'm not trying to make a bad intentioned question here, but I'm just genuinely curious because I think it is an issued that should be adressed:
How do you think that speaks about how psychedelic drugs affect our mental health ?
Or otherwise, does it speaks about what kind of people get attracted to drugs in general ?
Maybe it's just coincidence and has nothing to do with anything at all.
I've noticed in myself that I've started feeling a lot more uncomfortable about many things since I started tripping, but I'm not really sure I could relate that to my usage of psychedelics, or just to all the things I'm being confronted with in the transition from early adulthood to "maturity", which are two things that happened simultaneously so they are hard to tell apart in it's effects. I actually was a lot more depressed in my teenage years. I wouldn't say I'm depressed, but I kind of feel like I'm more "troubled" now. There's a lot out there that actually upsets me and angers me about the world, or the things I have to deal with, whereas when I was a teen my depression was so much self-centered and narcissistic. Can't be sure if I can attribute that "awareness" to psychedelics, or just to the fact of having seen/gone through more things, of which psychedelics are just another. Even when a very important one at that.
But back on topic, what do you guy's think about my questions ? This seems important to me specially when the drug's legalization movement seems to appeal a lot to the fact that psychedelics seem to have a positive effect on mental health of people with depression and terminal illness, PTSD and such ... But can we say that is true for us ? ?
Or is it just that we, more prone to depression, were more attracted to and charmed with psychedelics BECAUSE they feel so therapeutic ? But could we say the effect is lasting at all ? Or are we just momentarily alienating ourselves just like a benzo user numbs down his anxiety ? I can say that I feel like I gained some truly useful insights from my trips, which have helped me cope with some of the stress that being a human being carries, but I'm not sure how the number goes when correlating psychedelic use and depression/other mental health problems. Maybe its this society that is fucking hard with us and there's really no difference in the number between different populations; We are all depressed and overly-anxious in this postmodern western world.
I know that this is a tough anthropological question that doesn't have an "at hand" answer, but I wanted to know your opinion.
I'm not trying to make a bad intentioned question here, but I'm just genuinely curious because I think it is an issued that should be adressed:
How do you think that speaks about how psychedelic drugs affect our mental health ?
Or otherwise, does it speaks about what kind of people get attracted to drugs in general ?
Maybe it's just coincidence and has nothing to do with anything at all.
I've noticed in myself that I've started feeling a lot more uncomfortable about many things since I started tripping, but I'm not really sure I could relate that to my usage of psychedelics, or just to all the things I'm being confronted with in the transition from early adulthood to "maturity", which are two things that happened simultaneously so they are hard to tell apart in it's effects. I actually was a lot more depressed in my teenage years. I wouldn't say I'm depressed, but I kind of feel like I'm more "troubled" now. There's a lot out there that actually upsets me and angers me about the world, or the things I have to deal with, whereas when I was a teen my depression was so much self-centered and narcissistic. Can't be sure if I can attribute that "awareness" to psychedelics, or just to the fact of having seen/gone through more things, of which psychedelics are just another. Even when a very important one at that.
But back on topic, what do you guy's think about my questions ? This seems important to me specially when the drug's legalization movement seems to appeal a lot to the fact that psychedelics seem to have a positive effect on mental health of people with depression and terminal illness, PTSD and such ... But can we say that is true for us ? ?
Or is it just that we, more prone to depression, were more attracted to and charmed with psychedelics BECAUSE they feel so therapeutic ? But could we say the effect is lasting at all ? Or are we just momentarily alienating ourselves just like a benzo user numbs down his anxiety ? I can say that I feel like I gained some truly useful insights from my trips, which have helped me cope with some of the stress that being a human being carries, but I'm not sure how the number goes when correlating psychedelic use and depression/other mental health problems. Maybe its this society that is fucking hard with us and there's really no difference in the number between different populations; We are all depressed and overly-anxious in this postmodern western world.
I know that this is a tough anthropological question that doesn't have an "at hand" answer, but I wanted to know your opinion.