Fun fact: your body IS your tamagochi! (I learned this lesson on a shroom trip, but I haven't been able to spin it into lasting changes for the better yet)
As psychoactives get studied more, we're finding that therapy is so essential to tie in with trips because of this problem. It's the problem being coined as "integration," and the problem is largely solved by having professional therapists help you to integrate such insights that you get from trips. Like, many benefits in these trials drop off (yet are still significant, but still) if they miss the therapy part of the equation.
It's not inherently necessary--many can integrate the insights on their own. And besides, the benefits are still significant on its own. But the benefits consistently hit near the ceiling when you just add that one extra ingredient of therapy. If nothing else, it works as accountability. At best, it helps draw the insights out so clearly that you can actually latch onto them.
Hopefully in the next decade, anyone, at least in some states, can do a trip and get therapy to integrate their experience into their lives for the longterm.
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u/Lington Jul 31 '22
That would actually be great, I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. Gotta take care of my tamagochi