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The Questions I Hear Most Often About Spravato Therapy
When someone reaches the point of asking about Spravato, they've rarely just started their mental health journey. More often, they've tried therapy, changed medications, adjusted dosages, and waited weeks or months hoping something would finally make a difference. Some have experienced partial relief. Others feel like they've run out of options entirely.
By Chesky Breuer3 months ago in Psyche
Callow. Content Warning.
One of the loneliest and saddest things about being schizotypal, at least for me, is that people often stop seeing you as a person and start remembering you as an experience they had. They remember the strange parts. The frightening parts. The parts of you that made them uncomfortable, confused, guilty, or scared. Years later, you can come back with insight, treatment, language, humour, softness, self-awareness - and still realise that someone isn’t looking at you. They’re looking at the worst period of your life and calling it you.
By Suzanne B.3 months ago in Psyche
10 Hidden Psychological Tricks
Unseen Mental Habits That Shape Behavior Out of nowhere, actions seem normal even when they are not. The mind slips into quiet shortcuts without warning. Not by choice, these patterns just appear during regular moments. Far from spells or schemes, such habits shape how folks move through days.
By Abdul Lateef4 months ago in Psyche
Exploring the Relationship Between Aphantasia and Dimethyltryptamine Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid
For the purposes of this exploration, let us define a hallucination as the experience of something that is only present in one’s mind. The hallucinogenic substance known as dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, enables the vivid experience of things that are only present in one’s mind. Our imagination also enables us to experience things that are only present in the mind. Studies report that low concentrations of endogenous DMT (that is, DMT which forms naturally inside one’s body) between 0.12 to 100 ng/ml are normally present in human cerebrospinal fluid [1]. Aphantasia is the inability to picture things in one’s “mind’s eye,” or imagination. There are two types of aphantasia: congenital aphantasia, which is present from birth, and acquired aphantasia, which develops through brain injury or illness. Studies show there are no significant structural differences between the brain of someone with congenital aphantasia and the brain of someone who can visualize things in their mind’s eye, so the primary contributor to congenital aphantasia must be a matter of functional divergence as opposed to structural abnormality. To be clear, there are some subtle structural differences in aphantasic brains, but not enough to explain the disruption of the visualization process [2]. This paper proposes that extremely low levels of endogenous DMT in human cerebrospinal fluid (near or below the lower end of the reported range, or ≲ 0.12 ng/ml) may contribute to the functional differences underlying congenital aphantasia.
By J. Martin Strangeweather4 months ago in Psyche
