Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
I’m a huge proponent of safe psychedelic use, specifically LSD.<p>I was massively depressed and suicidal growing up (I had family problems, and two of my best friends killed them selves at 13 and 17).<p>I dropped out of high school.<p>I experimented with LSD and mushrooms around 17&#x2F;18 years old.<p>And while I didn’t realize it then, my life massively changed for the better. Maybe I grew up. Maybe I took responsibility for my life. Or maybe... there was a synergistic effect that accompanied my psychedelic use. My religious family thinks it was all their prayer and god’s work... because it’s a miracle.<p>As I got older, the more I believe that it had a profound impact on my mind, and my ability to perceive the world and my sense of self differently, in an empowering way.<p>I now am an evangelist for psychedelic use. I share it with whomever I feel would benefit, educating them on the research, on the negative stigmas, and emphasizing how necessary it is to respect the substance and approach it with care and good intent.<p>I ended up attended a top 12 university. I worked hard.<p>Most of my friends at that university experimented with LSD. None of them are crazy. They all are doing amazing things. They’re all deep and insightful.<p>Psychedelics have gotten such a terrible reputation.<p>I believe it is immensely helpful for anxiety and depression.<p>I believe it needs to be adopted as a therapeutic alternative to current psychiatric therapies which are toxic and destructive and deadening by comparison. (I was on countless drugs growing up, dozens, prescribed by psychiatrists... they did nothing. Just made me more dead inside.)<p>I also believe psychedelics open the mind in ways that only radical life experiences can.<p>I think this mind expansion can be useful for learning, creating, and perceiving new ways of looking at the world.