Yeah I’ve just seen a lot of positivity without acknowledgement of the fact that there are serious functional differences between following best solo trip practices and what is being tried as a therapy. The main danger I see is that I have seen people who see the positivity without nuance and start to see it as a miracle treatment or who think that when we talk about it it’s more like taking most medicines as opposed to the reality that there’s a good chance it’s gonna be fuckin rough and part of how you get positive results comes from having a background in healthier coping mechanisms and practices. CBT techniques for example are something that really helped me get through the rough parts of my last challenging trip. One of the suspected mechanisms of action last I checked was exposure while in an altered state. The trips that help are sometimes not terrible, but they’re not the fun trips. I did research on lsd before I tripped, but I didn’t get much warning of the fact that the healing would involve confronting the trauma.
But yeah I know people who did psychedelics for years and recommend against them because of bad trips.
It’s an effective and powerful tool, but I’m grateful we’re pursuing other tools as well as destigmatizing and refining it.