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[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

MDMA therapy is interesting because it's usually regarded as a "party drug" as compared to "more serious" drugs like psychedelics. But it looks like it's very useful for some types of therapy!

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    [–]Jcyte17 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I had a similar experience with shrooms where I was dealing with trauma of being abused as a child through my teens years. Well I got out of that abusive household in high school but the trauma stood and I found shrooms through some friends and on Halloween his parents were out of town. We took the shrooms and about two hours later I was realizing a lot about the relationship between me and my mother and how much the divorce had fucked the whole family up and changed everyone. I started crying hysterically because I realized how much my mother still loved me and how wrong I was. I texted her immediately and told her how much I love her and I wanted this nightmare to end and she agreed wholeheartedly and we saw each other the next day, and ever since then she has had my back at the worst of times and I continue to still have the same mindset I did the day I took shrooms, I still see that perspective as clear as day. I dont think I'd be alive if it weren't for her because everybody else had given up on me when she hadn't. Sorry for the rant.

    [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

    That's a very interesting story. Are you sure it was pure MDMA? A lot of "ecstacy" is cut with amphetamines or other drugs, that could've been the issue, I wonder. And then maybe your friends were just acting how they thought they were supposed to act, like when you give teenagers fake beer and they think they're drunk but they're not.

    It also makes sense though that certain drugs help certain people in certain mindsets. There's no "one-size-fits-all" epiphany drug, I guess haha

    [–]JesusHChrist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Mushrooms can have healing properties too. They force you to face your demons. I learned and had a more positive impact from "bad trips" than the fun ones.

    Amphetamines give a fleeting feeling of having life "figured all out."

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      [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

      Oh wow that sounds like a very unique situation. That might also mean there are things that are psychoactive to you that are not to others, I wonder....

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        [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

        I am also hyper sensible to smell and all of my memories are linked to smells that I somehow saved as a back-up for my memories, like a dog or something.

        That part sounds like synesthesia, where two senses or parts of memory are mixed with a sensory perception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

        It makes sense that you have strong memories to smell, it's in the part of your brain that's "oldest" from an evolutionary perspective and smell is one of the oldest senses. This ends up making it very useful for memories. That's what I learned from my psychology studies anyway.

        That's cool that you're unique though, that's something to be proud of I think.

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          [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

          Yeah I think that's common for people with Synesthesia to feel that way. It's like being an x-men character :) Not everyone likes your oddities, but you have super powers other people don't have :)

          I actually have a theory that language itself is based on synesthesia, a crossover between spoken (or written) labels, and the meaning of the idea itself. Animals seem to have trouble with this past a few hundred words, but the unique folds and layout of the human brain give it the ability to store tens of thousands of words. This is like a form of synesthesia that animals do not possess. So even though others might see it as odd, I think you yourself should regard it as a unique superpower you have :) My 2 cents

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