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Re:MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial by mattkrause on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:39PM (#25365555)
Here's crazy case report of man who "overdosed" on placebos given to him as part of a blinded clinical trial.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17484949/

His blood pressure crashed (80/40 initally, 100/62 after several hours of IV fluids) and his heart rate was over 100 bpm. When he found out the pills he had taken were inert, he bounced back almost immediately.

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Re:MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial by mjburgess on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:09PM (#25365961)
just a panic attack
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Re:MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial by mattkrause on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:50PM (#25366441)
It's obviously psychosomatic (which is why I brought it up) but it's different from a garden-variety panic attack:

- Blood pressure tends to shoot up, rather than down, during a panic attack.

- Four hours would be incredibly long; they're usually more like 20 minutes

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