On another note K cured me of a pretty serious mental disturbance. About 5 years ago I'd been caning the pills and toking a lot of skunk. One day I sat down , had a spliff and had a full blown dissociative experience completely out of the blue. I spent the next 2 years wondering around like I was on K, occasionally believing I was dead 8) seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalisation
After a few months gotr diagnosed with derealisation disorder. The main problem is its an anxiety disorder with positive feedback loop. I feared the dissociation and that fear increased it. Started to have trouble leaving house etc. K taught me theres nothing to be scared off in the dissociative experience.
I'm fairly sure lamatrogine was just an alzheimers drug until people discovered the fact it had some activity at the NMDA receptor. I remember thinking that it might help with the dissociation having read it could block dissociative drugs, but the psych tlooked at me as if was stupid and said it wasn't a drug used to treat mental illness (this is 5 years ago!).
Then Mount Sinai centre for the study of dissociation started testing it on their Dp'ed patients. Now its being used with suprising success as an 'atypical' to treat certain mental illnesses, especially bipolar and depersonalisation . So perhaps there is a bit of truth in this glutamate hypothess. Hell, we've had dmt hypothesis and I think its all a bit more complex than the dopamine hypothesis. The king is dead long live the king!
After a few months gotr diagnosed with derealisation disorder. The main problem is its an anxiety disorder with positive feedback loop. I feared the dissociation and that fear increased it. Started to have trouble leaving house etc. K taught me theres nothing to be scared off in the dissociative experience.
I'm fairly sure lamatrogine was just an alzheimers drug until people discovered the fact it had some activity at the NMDA receptor. I remember thinking that it might help with the dissociation having read it could block dissociative drugs, but the psych tlooked at me as if was stupid and said it wasn't a drug used to treat mental illness (this is 5 years ago!).
Then Mount Sinai centre for the study of dissociation started testing it on their Dp'ed patients. Now its being used with suprising success as an 'atypical' to treat certain mental illnesses, especially bipolar and depersonalisation . So perhaps there is a bit of truth in this glutamate hypothess. Hell, we've had dmt hypothesis and I think its all a bit more complex than the dopamine hypothesis. The king is dead long live the king!
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