I think CBT operates in two parts. The first is the therapy where you learn to recognise and understand your dysfunctional self-defeating thoughts with the aid of the therapist. This looks a lot like regular talk therapy. You work out counter-arguments to your negative ideas and beliefs. However when combined with Mindfullness it’s really training you to be able to recognise and control those dysfunctional and self-defeating thoughts in real-time when they emerge. In Freudian terms it teaches you to use your super-ego to grab hold of emotionally disturbing content emerging from your ego and id and reframe or redirect the negativity with more positive and realistic thoughts.
The problem is those labels, like CBT or DBT or whatever, get used for lots of different practices. Whatever the name of it is, the practice I described above is something that made a hugely positive impact in my life. Certainly as far as dealing with drug induced depression and anxiety goes.
Yeah I just couldn't see psilocybin or especially mescaline making anyone delusional, but im sure quite a few ppl have jumped off sky scrapers on LSD. Though that's obviously still somewhat of an exaggeration it leads to delusion a lot easier than other psychedelics IME.Same, the vendors just decided to called it 3D-MXE for some reason.
I personally love LSD and RCs both. I love collecting experiences on the various alterations of the original molecules (LSD, mescaline, DMT, psilocybin). But LSD pretty much has it all,and if you add in mushrooms and DMT and mescaline, that' s pretty much the range of psychedelics, and you can know they're safe (other than the ways in which all psychedelics can be dangerous). But as a connoisseur I love trying a bunch of different things.
Dissociatives are another matter. I find them very interesting and occasionally want to partake, but some people become obsessed and get into really bad places. I've seen some shit. Psychedelics are much safer in this regard.
I am the same, even if i go 3-6 (6 is as far as I made it), I cannot hole on ketamine. I also can't trip off nitrous. Hoping some of these stronger compounds might still get me off..
I crashed a car *on purpose* on LSD. Not quite jumping off a building, but still dumb. Another time, I saw people run through massive traffic. Ive seen someone almost run off a cliff, but they were stopped.
Very true, cbt is cbt however
Interesting. Never went beyond 400ug, but always able to walk. Or even dance. I much prefer dancing to crashing cars
Well I fell 40 feet off the battlements of a fucking castle on 200ug lsd in my teens so there's that
With no tolerance 500 ug has been my max. I could possibly have walked in an emergency at that level but at the peak everything in the trip was encouraging me to just be as physically still as possible and let it all happen in my mind. I certainly could not have danced though. Or really wanted to - at least not in public. At some other stages I was slowly grooving around my house though and while I was lying down I think I was probably kind of gently dancing or at least moving ecstatically in sync with what the music was doing to me. I don’t really remember the specifics of that one.Interesting. Never went beyond 400ug, but always able to walk. Or even dance. I much prefer dancing to crashing cars
Well I fell 40 feet off the battlements of a fucking castle on 200ug lsd in my teens so there's that
I didn't know I'd fallen until I heard my mates shouting from above. They thought I'd been abducted stealthily by aliens or had perhaps just dematerialised
I'd fallen in complete silence and landed/rolled in the dip where the moat used to be 100's of years ago. Not a single bruise
man i use to have to climb 3 flights of stairs peaking on heavy doses with my friend while also under weed to go the park it was always hectic each time we went out but we would go on 3-4 walks on the trips i would loop like crazy on those stairs every time. But was always okay even though it felt like i was gonna fuck out lol. in an apartment block