One of them got stuck with a nagging feeling that the world wasn’t quite real that lasted for a very long time, which resulted in a lot of anxiety.
Sometimes people say "seeing events in third person". My experience was that my consciousness and actions were completely disconnected from my observations of reality. Like, I questioned whether I had any influence at all over my existence. Basic, predictable events were suddenly uncertain and terrifying. It left me with no mental capacity to do anything but uneasily exist.
With treatment, it goes away gradually over months. I never want to go back there.
Psycedelics in a nutshell
Luckily, we an pretty good at being hypocritical. This allows us to learn and think about this stuff while still believing the lies.
Had I gone into it totally blind with no way to frame it it probably would have been a nightmarish scenario though. There's a reason why Right View (samyak-drishti) is the first of the 8 Noble Truths [1] and the one really emphasized in the beginning of your Buddhist practice.
I was laying in bed with a migraine on a Saturday early afternoon. Smoked some pot (I am not a day smoker, generally pretty sober during the day) and then sat down. I just told myself that this was stupid, I live an incredible life, have a family that loves me and its all self induced and I was done with it. Forced myself to get out of bed and just started moving. Trudged my way through it that day and have not really had a migraine since. This was years ago.
I have occasionally had that initial flash of light that tells me a migraine is coming (always while sitting down to work so I know its stress related). As soon as it hits, I close my eyes and just will it to go away. Has been pretty successful. A couple of times I have had to sit there for 10 minutes for the lens flare (for lack of a better word) to go away. This has happened maybe twice a year for the last ~4 years.
Not saying its self induced / stress for everyone but this worked for me.
Also, it's common to have a lot of migraines for a period in your life and then stop having them. Or sometimes the reverse. I used to get very painful migraines about twice a year. Eventually that stopped. I still get migraines a couple times a year but they're quick "silent migraines" i.e. not painful, just annoying and disorienting.
https://www.science.org/content/article/lsd-alleviates-suici...
I disagree, if it stopped it stopped. It could be from something else, but his LSD intake is the most likely candidate. It would become pseudoscience if he or she would claim that this will work for everyone.
Also, don't forget that science can make a similar flaw. Just because a drug works on average, doesn't mean that it will work for you or that it won't have any negative side effects. Human variation can be quite big with certain things.
In… all likelihood you do not?
This review paper is particularly interesting, especially because nobody is discussing this and nobody has read it: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10....
The author is a serious person and this is a significant review paper of a solid and broad research foundation.
There are also studies on 5-HT2A agonists (“psychedelics”) on migraine and cluster headaches directly.
What does this even mean, and where is your proof?
Be careful of confusing your feelings with your actual health, they are not always related
Why are you talking down to people, oh sage one?
And to respond to the latter, how many people are diagnosed every year with terminal cancer after a routine doctor’s appointment? I didn’t believe I needed an example.
Could you provide a short description of how you approach this? E.g. how do you start and which muscles do you focus on, etc.
Then I met a gp who actually helped and mentioned indometacin and because that worked I was diagnosed with chronic parosysmal hemicrania.
PPIs didn't work, so I took ranitidine but eventually my stomach couldn't take the indometacin anymore and I had to stop it - the headaches returned.
Then I had an abcess in my jaw that almost killed me of sepsis and had to have two surgeries on my jaw and spent a month in the hospital on antibiotics. CPH didn't return.
Now I take a mild dose of propranolol daily and I rarely have headaches or migraines.
Methinks dentists could be doing a lot more screenings for diseases.
I then tried something novel - I took some LSD. I had an intense psychedelic trip, dug deep into my psyche, realized I was a giant ball of anxiety. The anxiety's root cause was ultimately a fear of mortality (around the same time, my dad was going through a terminal illness, we spent many years in and out of ICUs, so a lot of that had soaked into me). I had to come to terms with my own mortality, which happened when I just "melted" away and lost sense of self momentarily, and once I did, I felt so much lighter as I came out of the trip.
My migraines stopped right then and there; I kid you not. I didn't get a single headache for the next 4-5 years, and in general, I was also a lot more balanced and at peace, even though I went through some highly stressful times. It was miraculous.
Of course, life has a way of creeping up on me, and I do get migraines occasionally, but when I do, I know how to stop them - I just need to slow down, meditate (not feel-good meditations all these meditation apps promote, but actually meditate and feel your muscles relaxing). That single LSD trip taught me how to relax myself physiologically.
Not saying this is going to work for everyone, just sharing my personal experience. Please keep in mind that playing with psychedelics is like playing with fire. Exercise caution.