The General Daily
The AD newspaper frequently writes about psychedelics as therapeutic tools, and now also about trip therapy. The articles vary in scope, and we'll highlight a few here.
- ‘Truffles as popular as banned mushrooms‘
- ‘The mushroom is not an immediate threat to public health.’
- MDMA, ketamine, and ayahuasca as medical treatments? "If you believe in it, it works."‘
- Mushrooms for breakfast for a better mood
Triptherapie: not two years with a therapist, but one good trip for a mental breakthrough
The best title is of course about triptherapie.nl And that's the headline above. How wonderful is it when a client writes about us in the AD newspaper, where the title suggests the session we did with her was so powerful it was two years of therapy in a single day? On that particular day, I had no idea Suus Ruis was a writer (a journalist/author of various books/professional essayist/wordsmith for hire/sharpest pencil in the box, in her own words). This individual truffle session at home was therefore primarily intended to treat anxiety and depression.
The highlights of the article
Some highlights from the article to give you an idea of what it's about:
After a turbulent childhood rife with trauma and loss, journalist Suus Ruis (47) struggles with anxiety and depression. Unwilling to undergo long-term psychotherapy, she decides to try psychedelics, the active ingredient in truffles and magic mushrooms. "And I'm still fiercely anti-drug."‘
Long story short: my anxiety didn't diminish over time, and when I was about 22, a severe, pitch-black depression struck me. Intensive psychotherapy and medication helped me recover, but it always remained a point of attention.
Throughout the trip, the same image looms: me as a little girl on a boat, sailing on a dark, wild sea. Well, sailing… clinging to a mast with white knuckles, hoping the gigantic waves don't swallow me up. As the psilocybin slowly begins to wear off, I realize that those waves are so high, wild, and uncontrollable because I make them so. I've come to see life as an untamed, threatening sea. It's just waiting for that boat to capsize.
To be fair: they haven't gone away yet. But I notice that situations that normally terrify me—a confrontational phone call with a client, for example—suddenly affect me much less. It's as if a soft blanket has been placed over that rock in my stomach. And when fear does arise, it dissipates much faster.
The full article
You can read the full article via the link below:
Triptherapie: not two years with a therapist, but one good trip for a mental breakthrough (AD.nl)
