Posted by linkadge on July 14, 2004, at 20:12:31
In reply to Re: MDMA (Ecstacy) for PTSD, posted by zeugma on July 14, 2004, at 19:24:35
The point of therapy is about a gradual and sustained growth and learning, not slip sliding all over the place.
I know people who have got married in Vagas while under the influence of E, and then got divorced in discust when the pill wears off.
What I am trying to say is that sure ecstacy can make Bush and Sadam kiss and make up. But that doesn't mean that the next day things would remain the same.
What goes up, must come down. In that down time there are just as many self destructive thoughts formed as there were positive.
I've heard research to suggest that the brain can take up to 14 days to resynthsize the brain serotonin content that was so callously sqandered to produce this flashbulb experience.
There are denumerable case reports of suicidally depressed people who have taken ecstacy to try and snap out of their melancholy. Regardless of the positive experience they had, the crash was so precipitous that suicide was (for them) the only option.It doesn't matter what insight, or proposed understanding you have of your condition. If your brain is still significantly unballenced, you will feel bad. Remember that everything psychological is also psysical. And the idea that a single dose of E will magically and permanatly fix your brain chemsitry is absurd, and perhaps quite the opposite.
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