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I get lazy bc irl I get to just rely on my authority instead of actually explaining myself lol

There’s a broad push in the therapeutic psychedelic community to use the term “challenging” instead of “bad” because semantics and framing matter. I know it can be annoying, but some words carry an unfortunate connotation that’s best subverted by using a different word altogether.

I do take issue with the words “bad” and “good” in general, but I wouldn’t say that there are no experiences which can be described as bad. (I’m also an amoralist and believe nothing is inherently “bad,” so at least I’m consistent, however unpopular)

I recommend Frankl because I realize this sounds inherently invalidating, but if anyone is allowed to say it, it’s a holocaust survivor. I’d recommend “Man’s Search for Meaning”, which he wrote shortly after being liberated from a concentration camp.

Kind of, yeah. If you think this is dumb (beyond your reductionist take, I mean), I’d genuinely recommend you read Viktor Frankl (I ignore the religious stuff tho, personally, tbc)

It’s a specifically important distinction to make for psychedelics though. If you go into it thinking bad trips are real, you’re more likely to have a challenging trip, and you’re more likely to have a defeatist attitude afterward creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Especially when using psychedelics therapeutically, it’s extremely beneficial to go into it with the mindset that there’s no such thing as a bad trip. It reduces the odds of having a challenging trip in the first place, makes them less challenging when they do happen, and improves successful integration of challenging trips afterward

People don’t like to hear it because it sounds like invalidating toxic positivity, but you’re right. Aside from fringe cases, there’s no bad trips- only challenging trips. It may even be traumatic, but that doesn’t make it an inherently bad trip; it’s all about how you respond to it and what you do with it after.

When I was a young moron, often making long drives at night on unlit roads, I would watch videos while driving by placing my phone on the dashboard and watching the reflection on the windshield

Damn this is so true. I did go find that comment just to downvote it tho bc I think it’s funny

scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds

I’ve actually done this and it was genuinely good- tasted like pizza

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?? That’s certainly not what it looks like on the video

Wait why does he have 2 bullet holes?

As an ace therapist, I agree with this answer OP. Like others have said, talking to a therapist would also be a good idea, but be sure to find a therapist who’s actually familiar with aspec stuff

Check this out! I’m genuinely surprised

Edit: GPT4 can read it, but I’d guess traditional bots are more likely to use OCR

Wait really? Is it a specially designed font for that purpose? I’d love to learn more

Am I the only one who finds these memes hard to read due to the font and color?

OP, I always scroll past your posts bc of this, and I thought you should know in case it’s not just me

You can do violence without dehumanizing your target

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A couple additional versions OP inspired with this

By @einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works

By me

I love this song by Naethan Apollo about the UHC CEO, Death of a Profiteer. Hoping he releases another banger about this one