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Murkiness and wishful thinking about an emerging scientific subject can be spun into certainty.
The vagus nerve is being hyped up by online influencers, making it seem easy to treat and fix a slew of health issues. What’s fact and fiction?
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Using ‘trip killers’ to cut short bad drug trips is potentially dangerous.
As interest in psychedelics has grown, so has interest in ways to end a bad trip.
Recent research reveals that people are giving potentially dangerous advice on social media on how to stop a trip that is less than pleasurable.
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Loneliness and Being Alone
We live in a bustling, crowded world, yet loneliness appears to be on the rise.
Why are so many of us feeling isolated and what can we do about it?
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There is an ever-growing list of the benefits of natural prescriptions – now researchers say nature could offer a cure for loneliness too.
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Grief
Here’s an article from TIME magazine on talking about grief.
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Psychedelics and Prolonged Grief Disorder
Randomized clinical trials demonstrated the efficacy of psilocybin in reducing symptom severity in depression and MDMA in reducing PTSD symptomatology.
Furthermore, psychedelics often produce subjective effects (such as transcendence, mystical experiences, and a sense of oneness) that may be uniquely relevant to the existential distress experienced in PGD.
Read morePsychological Flexibility and Psychedelics
In a new study, researchers found that psychological flexibility, several facets of mindfulness, and values-congruent living significantly improved following psilocybin and were maintained through week 16.
Additionally, improvements in psychological flexibility and experiential acceptance were strongly associated with reductions in depression severity following psilocybin.
Keep reading for the full article at Nature.com
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