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machined_learning t1_j2yhiis wrote

"If passed, New Yorkers wouldn’t lose professional licenses, public assistance, or access to mental health and behavioral health services simply for using psychedelics."

I only want a therapist who has done psychedelics. Why give someone the keys to my mind if they've never even tried to explore their own?

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[deleted] t1_j2yp4w5 wrote

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machined_learning t1_j2ytnhw wrote

Heard, I could see how some people might know how the juice tastes without ever having to peel the fruit.

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ctindel t1_j30pv9l wrote

There’s literally no way anyone can know what the juice tastes like without having tasted it. It’s a bad analogy to prove your point but it’s a great analogy to prove the inverse haha.

There’s no way someone can know what psychedelics are like without trying them.

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machined_learning t1_j31qasx wrote

Definitely don't want you as my therapist lol

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ctindel t1_j31x2br wrote

I remember trying guava nectar for the first time as an adult when I went to Hawaii. I had never tasted anything like it. There’s no way someone could have described it to me in a way I’d really understand without having tasted it myself.

I dunno maybe great therapists can imagine what guava nectar tastes like without having tasted it, but I really doubt it. The most they could do is ask “how did that make you feel when you drank it?”

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machined_learning t1_j33eowy wrote

Well the original commenter I was responding to had a great insight, which was that even if the person used psychedelics it would be difficult to compare their experience to my experience and even know if they are similar enough to be useful in a therapy setting.

In essence, if everyone's experience is so different anyway, why not just look for someone who has opened their mind to the experience and maybe studied it or worked closely with other people who have. A mind open to possibility and understanding could be more in line with what I would want, rather than a mind that deals in absolutes like "there is literally no way anyone can know what the juice tastes like..."

I see what you are saying though. Psychedelics are hard to imagine without having tried them.

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daned t1_j2zwrdb wrote

I like the way you think. If you don't mind me asking, why was the cultural aspect more important to you?

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daned t1_j301rad wrote

Good luck! I completely understand and this is why I've been to thirty therapists. I want to take about ten minutes to get through the basic shit, not four sessions.

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IIAOPSW t1_j2zbwqt wrote

I'll be your therapist. I'm not board approved or even ethics committee approved, but yolo.

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