Psychology

Cold War kids weren't scared 24/7 — their minds numbed the threat to survive it. The real trauma hit in specific weeks, not decades.

Cross posted from https://thelemmy.club/post/53337461

In the Phase 2 study, 77% of postpartum women who received a psychedelic dose, 30mg of luvesilocin, had significant improvement in their postpartum depression. Overall, 71% had no symptoms of postpartum depression seven days after the psychedelic session.

Again and again, he found that people reported some of their most positive experiences not during passive rest, but when they were absorbed in something demanding enough to stretch them and structured enough to let them respond. Challenge sitting a hair above skill. Goals clear. Feedback immediate. The self, for the duration, mostly out of the way.

In his own words: “The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” (Flow, 1990, p. 3)

my message to myself on MayDay26 😆

this is the best magnet i gifted myself in years, to remind myself i need to be kind to my self & learn to 🖤 every part. to be grateful for all the horrors i've been through as they taught me to rely on my self.

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magnet with the text: floggings will continue until morale improves.

it hangs on metal racking in which my book collection is proudly displayed. among others there's:

☆george orwell- 1984

☆king cole- terry hall

☆ geert mak - the angel of amsterdam

☆ diana ozon - squatter jack

☆ the tattooist of auschwitz - heather morris

☆ state of robbers - ewald van vrugt

☆ the life & rhymes of benjamin zephanaia - b. zephanaia

all i can highly recommend 🖤

RWG interface, mispoke; I interact with my random word generator and because of Pegasus II, it tells me to do things, to include breaking the law. If that or this first sounds crazy, watch to the end.

in this week's podcast i read the article ´the alcoholic roundabout' and discuss the toxic relationship dynamic i have been in since birth, how that came about & why i keep attracting alcoholics & narcissists in my life.