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by jambalaya8 14 days ago
Am curious, do you personally feel mdma would be more therapeutic with friends or at a therapy clinic? I find the use of mdma or lsd or shrooms weird in a formalised environment. Some of the stuff makes sense (like drugs used to desensitise people with PTSD to certain triggers (when it doesn't backfire spectacularly; guessing we don't hear as much about that just the not-formalised experiences of it)) to me, but I don't see how it translates for a lot of people (eg, people not in a semi-predictable environment; people in wartime generally either are around bombings or shootings or not, whereas people with other sorts of PTSD have more trust issues; I could see drug use backfiring for almost anyone but the former group. Generally non-complex PTSD responds better, yet it is fairly rare).

Still surprised tv hasn't brought us a show like Breaking Bad but with designer drugs (the newer 21 Jump Street movies don't count).

I might check that site out but more because I like reading case studies about outlying things than any particular interest in drugs. Thanks.