[ipaddr]

Psychedelics weaken your emotional associations. Which can be helpful and/or unhelpful.

It's not a matter of more work.

Whatever feeling you had about this chair has changed. It use to represent a memory or a feeling from childhood. That's changed or is gone for better or worse.

That's how to perceive how it works.

If you are 'fucked' because you can't move on it will help. If you feel a lack of connections to things/people it could help form new ones or reduce what you currently have.

Removing emotional memories can be scary. Removing PTSD memories can be freeing.

[ikekkdcjkfke]

These negative emotions helped us survive before, but in this artificial world there needs to be artificial solutions

[dleary]

In the past, a lot fewer people lived until they were “old”.

So, the deleterious effects of trauma emotions “mattered less”. If you can never sleep through the night without waking up screaming, that is a bad effect. But if you only have a year or two of lifespan left, then you experience less “penalty” than if you had lots of years left.

Now, we ship boys off to war at 18, or even younger. They get PTSD in war, and then live 50+ years afterwards with the bad effects.

[BobaFloutist]

Evolution isn't "intelligent design, the natural process".

There are plenty of traits that provide us with no advantage, and some that never have.

Just because our bodies and our brains do something, doesn't mean it's useful.

[RamblingCTO]

with 'work' I mean integration work afterwards and preparation beforehand. you just gotta be able to handle what's coming imho