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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)

Recalling an LSD trip fifteen years later

I began to wonder if I would ever return to reality, but the voice in the back of my head reminded me again, “LSD is a drug… it will wear off.” The incredible thing about these experiences is that even now, fifteen years later, I can still recall them vividly as if they had…

#psychedelics #hallucinations #memory #anxiety

Talking people down in LSD studies

really needs to come off the drug. However, users can usually be talked out of whatever anxiety they are feeling in these studies.

#psychedelics #anxiety #research

Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)

I rimpianti più frequenti

Per inciso, tra le persone che ho intervistato, le risposte più frequenti erano: «Vorrei aver avuto meno preoccupazioni da giovane», «Vorrei aver fatto quello che desideravo davvero e non quello che la società si aspettava da me», e «Vorrei aver sposato qualcun altro». Siamo…

#regret #life #marriage #anxiety

Information Anxiety 2

Information anxiety

People still have anxiety about how to assimilate a body of knowledge that is expanding by the nanosecond…. Information anxiety is produced by the ever-widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand.

#anxiety #people #knowledge

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)

Withdrawal, madness and crime

The assault of anxiety on the unprotected mind, the brain without natural endorphins, makes men and women mad. Every junkie going through turkey is mad. The madness is so fierce and cruel that some die of it. And in the temporary insanity of that skinned, excruciated world, we…

#crime #anxiety #mind #assault

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)

LSD as a breakthrough for psychotherapy

Depression and anxiety were particularly responsive to treatment, and by the mid-1950s, lysergic acid was beginning to look like a major breakthrough in the entire field of analytically oriented psychotherapy. The drug worked equally well for Freudians, Jungians, and any other…

#psychotherapy #psychedelics #anxiety #addiction

Poverty had become psychological

By the middle of the decade so many young people were dropping out that it looked as though “youth” was becoming a social class in its own right, one about to inherit the revolutionary dynamism Marx had ascribed to the industrial proletariat. For between the two world wars…

#counterculture #capitalism #work #anxiety #revolution

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)

Object permanence and the dropped spoon

Piaget believed that in the beginning, babies’ reactions to the world are purely reflexive (without thought). He said that intelligence began when the reactions became purposeful. For example, when we watch an infant lying below a crib gym, we notice that initially he shows a…

#babies #child-development #objects #anxiety

Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)

La leggerezza perduta del lavoro su commissione

Quante volte gli è capitato di rimpiangere il privilegio straordinario di poter trascurare i costi che ogni cambiamento di idea o richiesta irrazionale o nuova pretesa provocavano, quando la sua responsabilità era limitata alla progettazione per conto di committenti senza…

#work #nostalgia #anxiety #architecture

Diventare committente di se stessi

Quando ha deciso di buttarsi in quest’impresa sapeva che caricarsi sulle spalle tutto l’onere del progetto sarebbe stato un impegno ben diverso dal suo abituale, nobilissimo lavoro da architetto. Del resto era stata proprio la dimensione della sfida ad attrarlo, il rischio…

#ambition #risk #work #anxiety

Attrazione che cala sotto il peso delle responsabilità

Le labbra carnose di Lucia l’avevano invogliato fin dal primo incontro per come suggerivano un’intensa sensualità naturale, che sapientemente titillata e sollecitata avrebbe potuto offrirgli baci appassionati e fellatio potenzialmente entusiasmanti, ma in momenti come questo…

#desire #sex #anxiety

Tra stanchezza del presente e incertezza del futuro

Così adesso eccoli qua a rimbalzare sul mare color cobalto, nel vento carico di salsedine e nella luce abbagliante, presi come sono tra stanchezza del presente e incertezza sul futuro.

#present #future #anxiety