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Re:5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anx... by lostmsu on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:09PM (#19432868)
Or you can blunt these feelings using alcohol. I would not call it "dealing with", if you are not actually solving the underlying problem.
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Re:5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anx... by Analog24 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:05PM (#19458256)
How do you "solve" a loved one dying or being diagnosed with terminal cancer, for example? Sometimes the issue is a fundamental fact of life that can't be "solved". Psychedelics can help you come to peace with these things and let you live a less painful life (obviously this isn't true for everyone but there are many studies that show it helps for a lot of people).

Alcohol does not make you come to peace with such things, it just makes you forget for a time. Then you eventually have to deal with it again.

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