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The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD on questionable grounds. Here's how to fix the clinical trials and why the FDA's decision was wrong.

7 min read · Mental Health · MDMA · Therapy

For most psychological difficulties, professional training appears unnecessary. This isn't a radical claim—it's what the empirical evidence consistently shows.

7 min read · Mental Health · Therapy · Healthcare

I suffered a severe manic episode during the pandemic. GPT-4 helped me decode my psychotic notes to self better than any human therapist I've ever had.

7 min read · AI · Mental Health · Personal

Reflect on your intrinsic motivations for change — things that go beyond any external pressures or expectations from others. Recovery is a journey, and will never be perfect.

9 min read · Mental Health · Recovery · Personal Growth

I think we often worry that the way we feel is somehow abnormal. We feel strange things at strange times and assume that something is wrong with us. But it now seems to me that we feel strange things at strange times simply because the world is a fantastically strange place.

12 min read · Mental Health · Personal · Bipolar Disorder · Medication · Psychiatry