US could soon approve MDMA therapy – opening an era of psychedelic medicine

Re:US could soon approve MDMA therapy – opening an era of ps... by bheadmaster on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:48PM (#35643582)

> Realistically, your argument isn't to lessen trauma, but to simply normalize it. Which is exactly what American culture already does

No, actually, my argument is that killing or injuring a person in self-defense is less traumatic than being helpless while getting assaulted.

Besides, trauma is relative - "normalizing" trauma is another way of saying "being desensitised" - which is exactly the process therapy itself employs to help people relieve the effects of it.

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Re:US could soon approve MDMA therapy – opening an era of ps... by AlecSchueler on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:35PM (#35644244)

There's also different levels of trauma involved in the kind of assault you're likelyt to come up against. Being held up at gunpoint is something I can't imagine happening in my life.

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Re:US could soon approve MDMA therapy – opening an era of ps... by bheadmaster on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:14PM (#35646432)

Oddly, I've once had a dream that I was being held at gunpoint.

A person unknown to me was holding a submachine gun, and I could literally feel the muscles tensing in my stomach, where the gun was pointed at, anticipating the pain of a bullet. It was one of the most uncomfortable and frightening things I've felt in my life, so much that I still remember the dream quite vividly.

I assume being held at gunpoint in real life would be even more frightening.

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