Psychedelics and Mental Illness

[TransistorBass]

Not directly aimed at you my friend, but prompted by your post here.

When I felt like everything was sorted and I had no healing to do, that was a good fun time. Now I realise how much trauma I had repressed during that time. How many thing I used to blame on the rest of the world I now realise stemmed directly from my own deeply hidden broken bits.

And just to be annoying, I'm going to outright refute the relationship part! The relationships that are most difficult are the only ones to cling on to. They are the only real ones!

DMT has most definitely made me question everything, I think about more aspects of myself and question whether I'm right / wrong / or could do better. I know I could do better though I guess its hard to break out of learned cycles of 'normal life' so to speak.

I'll re-refute the relationship thing, it depends who is around you, YES there are many relationships around me that I will work hard on. Though when you spot people that don't allow you to be your full self I've got much less time for them. I guess once I passed a certain age I decided that blunt honesty in response to certain people was better than inaction or accepting their ways.
There's always exceptions of course where I make myself do the right thing and I'll always pay-forward without judgement any help and advice that others have given me.

 

[LuxObscura]

It's interesting how you recognize fragments of other people within yourself.

While one part of you agrees with a part of another person's whole,
another part of that same whole is rejected by them.

And it is precisely the part that the other person rejects that I consider to be correct.
The part they agree with is not necessarily the part I agree with.

All of this happens while the other person, at least at that moment, is in agreement with their own overall position,
otherwise they wouldn't have written it at that time.

This is not a judgment, but an interesting observation.
Every person has their reasons for why they think the way they currently do.
I also wonder to what extent these are convictions, and which conviction would actually be the best one for oneself.

Not directly aimed at you my friend, but prompted by your post here.

When I felt like everything was sorted and I had no healing to do, that was a good fun time. Now I realise how much trauma I had repressed during that time. How many thing I used to blame on the rest of the world I now realise stemmed directly from my own deeply hidden broken bits.

I agree.

And just to be annoying, I'm going to outright refute the relationship part! The relationships that are most difficult are the only ones to cling on to. They are the only real ones!

I do not agree to this, because what I need is a supportive relationship.
Anything else does everything only more difficult for both.
And with suportive, I mean in a bidirectional way.

 

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Good point Lux. I think that is why it's important that humans are not afraid to say what they really think. Now we have these 3 honest perspectives to consider.

for me, it's never about 'I think it's this way and you must change to agree with me'. I am always grateful for opposite viewpoints. Especially if I can use them to adjust or reinforce my current understanding.

Subjectively, every truly important relationship in my life has been punctuated by hard work from both parties. Somehow I end up valuing the connections that I could easily have discarded or given up on. Or perhaps more important are the people who could have discarded me, but didn't.

Objectively, we all have completely personal experiences of relationships. I love that we can share them without attaching dogma.