Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021)

Re:Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021) by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:57PM (#33441174)

I think HPPD is going to get a lot more attention as psychedelics continue to grow in mainstream popularity. The significance of HPPD as a potential long-lasting side effect of psychedelic use has been downplayed a lot in the past, but I've been seeing more uptake of the topic in mainstream discussions.

Andrew Callaghan of "ALL GAS NO BRAKES" suffers from HPPD and has started to discuss it openly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUbod5t_2oM&t=1247s

I think hearing HPPD stories from popular media figures like Callaghan can help seed healthy discussions about the risks of psychedelic use. In the past few years, the media has been way too optimistic about the potential positives of psychedelics while almost ignoring the risks and downsides.

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Re:Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021) by dkiok21k on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:30PM (#33444316)

I've had HPPD symptoms for many years after my first trip, and all of them are beginning to disappear now that I finally properly continued trauma therapies (with no substances involved).

I'm just making this up, and have zero studies to quote, but may it be that HPPD is actually a positive sign, on a path to healed trauma?

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Re:Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021) by eurasiantiger on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:18PM (#33475464)

I think these are normal features of our perception and most people are just used to experiencing them to the point where they are filtered out at baseline level of consciousness.

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