Thank you for your work and doing AMA! I have two somewhat related questions:
Do you think that psychedelics have the potential to improve the lives/wellbeing of people not suffering from any mental illnesses? Very anecdotally and only in the context of non-assisted/recreational use, one person I know claims that taking LSD substantially improved their default mood and wellbeing. Where “substantially” means that the contrast between past and present is obvious, “x2″ improvement in their own words. While the reports of most other users I know were much more “yeah, fine past time” or at most “I was able to disentangle one emotional issue I was facing at the time.”
Similarly, I am curious about the psychedelic-induced transformative experience and other outliner events. Do you encounter these in your research? How often are these relative to outlier events from conventional treatments?
Thank you for your work and doing AMA! I have two somewhat related questions:
Do you think that psychedelics have the potential to improve the lives/wellbeing of people not suffering from any mental illnesses? Very anecdotally and only in the context of non-assisted/recreational use, one person I know claims that taking LSD substantially improved their default mood and wellbeing. Where “substantially” means that the contrast between past and present is obvious, “x2″ improvement in their own words. While the reports of most other users I know were much more “yeah, fine past time” or at most “I was able to disentangle one emotional issue I was facing at the time.”
Similarly, I am curious about the psychedelic-induced transformative experience and other outliner events. Do you encounter these in your research? How often are these relative to outlier events from conventional treatments?