Can Psychedelics Help With Mental Health Issues? | Answers With Joe

Описание: There's an ongoing debate on psychedelic drugs and whether or not they play a useful role in the treatment of mental health conditions like depression and PTSD.

Think of your mind like a theater production, like a Broadway play. And you’re in the audience, experiencing the story and the drama and the spectacle, that’s your conscious experience.

That is what you experience going through life.

But you know as you’re caught up in the lights, the actors, the drama of it all, that behind the curtain, there’s a crew of dozens of people - far more than you ever see on stage, making this thing happen.

They’re pulling ropes, they’re sliding in sets, organizing and placing props, changing costumes, cueing music, working lights, pyrotechnics, all these varied and different jobs to make the experience of the production possible.

Your mind is the same way. You know, they say only 20% of your mind is what you perceive. The other 80% is your subconscious, collecting sensory information, coordinating movements, organizing and finding memories, and basically making your experience of consciousness possible.

And just like you, sitting in the audience have no idea what all those crew are doing behind the stage, you have no awareness whatsoever of all the heavy lifting your subconsciousness is doing.

Taking psychedelic drugs is kind-of like if the backdrop peeled away in one spot and gave you just a tiny glimpse of what’s going on backstage.

You might not fully understand what you’re seeing, because it’s just a tiny gap, but you’re getting just enough information that you can get a better understanding of just one job going on back there and how it affects the production you’re experiencing.

It isn’t always easy to figure out and sometimes leaves you with more questions than answers.

But sometimes you can just make out what’s happening, be it a makeup artist applying a wig, or a crew guy sliding in a set, that gives you a new understanding of this experience you’re having.

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Links:

http://www.mdmaptsd.org

http://jop.sagepub.com/content/25/4/439

http://www.vice.com/read/ayahuasca-wi...

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