<story><title>An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-untold-story-of-lsd-psychotherapy-in-communist-czechoslovakia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FredPret</author><text>And if you screw this extremely delicate self-administered chemical mind alteration up, the rest of us have to foot the bill for the resulting care &amp;#x2F; homelessnes &amp;#x2F; crime.&lt;p&gt;I’m a huge free marketeer, but a minimal amount of regulation really goes a very long way to improving outcomes.&lt;p&gt;Plus, you don’t get a second chance fixing your own brain.</text></item><item><author>labrador</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve successfully done self-therapy using nitrous oxide, psilocybin, 5-MeO-DMT and LSD, most recently to come to terms with my difficult father to forgive him. My problem with the current push for this type of therapy is the requirment that it be done by professionals charging hundreds or thousands of dollars. One must never mention &amp;quot;self-therapy&amp;quot; because that might scare legislatures into keeping these drugs illegal. I remain resistant to this insertion of the state into what should be my right to use my own mind the way I see fit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cf1241290841</author><text>&amp;gt;Plus, you don’t get a second chance fixing your own brain.&lt;p&gt;Says who?&lt;p&gt;I also believe your argument suffers from an attention fallacy. We allow (and encourage) people to do quite a lot of things that are outright more destructive and dangerous. Just walk past any gambling hall and have a look inside if you need an example. There are proper addicts there driven to extreme measures by desperation and tunnel views.&lt;p&gt;edit: If you need an example, a class mate of a very good friend of mine got into the habit of spending his pay check playing slots. He is currently serving time for cocaine smuggling after he ran out of options and couldnt see any other way out. Once losses are mounting peoples sanity goes quickly. Cocaine smuggling is by far not the worst thing he could have gotten himself into. And its not like putting him in detox for a week would have cleared his mind up as long as the debt is still there.</text></comment>
<story><title>An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-untold-story-of-lsd-psychotherapy-in-communist-czechoslovakia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FredPret</author><text>And if you screw this extremely delicate self-administered chemical mind alteration up, the rest of us have to foot the bill for the resulting care &amp;#x2F; homelessnes &amp;#x2F; crime.&lt;p&gt;I’m a huge free marketeer, but a minimal amount of regulation really goes a very long way to improving outcomes.&lt;p&gt;Plus, you don’t get a second chance fixing your own brain.</text></item><item><author>labrador</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve successfully done self-therapy using nitrous oxide, psilocybin, 5-MeO-DMT and LSD, most recently to come to terms with my difficult father to forgive him. My problem with the current push for this type of therapy is the requirment that it be done by professionals charging hundreds or thousands of dollars. One must never mention &amp;quot;self-therapy&amp;quot; because that might scare legislatures into keeping these drugs illegal. I remain resistant to this insertion of the state into what should be my right to use my own mind the way I see fit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foxhill</author><text>yes, that’s what collective health care means, regardless of if it’s state-mandated, or fully private.&lt;p&gt;you, or i, don’t get to decide what’s fair to treat, or who’s deserving of treatment.</text></comment>