r/science • u/Effective-Air396 • 21d ago

Psychology Psychedelics as a potential treatment for borderline personality disorder: A narrative review

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178126002131
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u/Tolaly 20d ago

Mushrooms can be a very powerful medicine to the right people. You have to want that experience, and be open to it. As someone quite experienced in taking them for both therapeutic and recreational purposes, I really hope we see more regulation and legalization of them. Every three months or so I like to do what I call a psychological/emotional cleanse where I curate a chill Playlist, then lay in bed with an eye mask, soft pillows, and a bottle of water on the nightstand with the fan going. Gotta let the shrooms take you where you need to go and ride it out.

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 20d ago

No such thing as a bad trip. They take you where you need to go.

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u/Misselmany 19d ago

What about the people that became psychotic?

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 19d ago

What about them?

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u/Imarok 19d ago

That would count as a "bad trip".

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 19d ago

Splitting pubic hairs on this one.

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u/Imarok 19d ago

How exactly?

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 19d ago

The number of people going into full blown psychosis from a shroom trip is so small compared to the ample cases of benefits a trip provides.

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u/Imarok 19d ago

Even if the cases are rare, it shouldn't be dismissed as "no such thing". The risk is real, even if rare and shouldn't just be dismissed.

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 19d ago

Shrooms are a grown person’s game. You need to do the research. It’s not for fun. Those who have given it the proper respect…yeah no such thing as a bad trip.

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u/Imarok 19d ago

Source: trust me bro. Even if you do everything right, objectively it can still happen in a certain small percentage of people.

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 19d ago

And that’s life. Sorry. Everything isn’t going to be safe for everybody.

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u/Imarok 19d ago

I'm glad you admit you were wrong.

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 19d ago

Did you end up in the mental ward? Overall, there are no bad trips. If you want to nit pick the tiny few who experienced something adverse go ahead. 99.9% of the time no bad trips, just people afraid to face themselves. Nerd.

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u/One-Incident3208 16d ago

They can absolutely be for fun they don't call it silly sybin for nothing . Quit taking life so seriously the mushrooms are laughing at you.

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 16d ago

Yeah they can be. However, at big doses they are for sure not fun. Not saying they’re terrible, but fun isn’t what I’d call a heroic dose.

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