The Algemeen Dagblad
The AD often writes about psychedelics as therapeutic tools and now also about Triptherapie. The emphases in the articles vary, and we will mention a few of them here.
- ‘Truffle just as popular as banned magic mushroom‘
- ‘The magic mushroom is not a direct threat to public health’
- MDMA, ketamine and ayahuasca as a medicine? ‘If you believe in it, it works’
- Mushrooms with breakfast for a better mood
Triptherapie: not two years with a therapist but one good trip for mental breakthrough
The best title is of course about triptherapie.nl and that is the headline above. How brilliant is it when a client writes about us in the AD with a title suggesting that the session we did with her was so powerful that it was 2 years of therapy in 1 day? On that particular day, I had no idea at all that Suus Ruis was a writer (journalist/author of all sorts of books/professional essayist/hired pen/sharpest pencil in the box in her own words). This in-home individual truffle session was therefore originally intended to treat anxiety and depression.
The highlights of the article
Some highlights of the article to give an idea of what it is about:
Following a turbulent youth fraught with trauma and loss, journalist Suus Ruis (47) struggles with anxiety and depression. As she does not fancy long-term psychotherapy, she decides to go for psychedelics, the active ingredient in truffles and magic mushrooms. ‘And to think I'm staunchly anti-drugs.’
To cut a long story short, my anxiety didn't get any less over time, and when I was about 22, a crushing and pitch-black depression struck me down. Intensive psychotherapy and medication helped me get back on my feet, but it has always remained something to watch out for.
Throughout the entire trip, the same image keeps surfacing: me as a little girl on a small boat, sailing on a dark, stormy sea. Well, sailing… holding on to a mast with white knuckles, just hoping the gigantic waves won't swallow me up. The moment the psilocybin slowly starts to wear off, I realise that those waves are so high and wild and uncontrollable because I am making them that way. I have come to view life as an untamed, threatening sea. It's just a matter of waiting for that boat to capsize.
Fair is fair: they aren't gone yet. But I notice that situations that normally scare the daylights out of me – a confrontational phone call with a client, for instance – suddenly affect me much less. As if a soft blanket has been placed over that knot in my stomach. And if fear does rear its head, it disappears 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)
