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SuspectNo7354 t1_j04vtkv wrote

Alcohol numbs the pain these people are fighting. Ketamine has the potential to rewire the neural pathways that cause that pain. Magic shrooms are also being researched due to the same potential healing properties.

I'm pretty sure to get approved for this you have to be seeing a psychiatrist, so a form of therapy is also involved.

Either way it's not a magic pill, it's meant as a form of help as you work through your demons in therapy. Will it be used that way, who knows, probably not based on how anti anxiety meds are used.

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FatherOfLights88 t1_j068pwa wrote

Though they all act quite differently from each other, they tend to carry the same ability(?) to raise the user up out of their pain so that they can see the wounding(?) while not being overwhelmed by it. From this perspective, it's so much easier to see the pain for what it is, feel it, and then stitch the torn pieces back together.

Everything after that is integrating the sessions onto regular(?) reality and paying attention to how things feel different from before. It's pretty remarkable just how much progress a can be made in such a short time.

*(?) = questionable word choice.

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