Posted by pseudoname on February 1, 2006, at 18:17:11
In reply to Re: interesting, posted by john berk on February 1, 2006, at 15:06:03
> i didn't mean to "bang on" too enthusiastly
Hey, John. I hope *I* didn't bang too much, LOL. I have these knee-jerk reactions whenever semi-Freudian topics come up, and I find myself posting "cautionary" warnings like they were wallpaper. It's probably from spending so many years & tens of thousands ($) in psychoanalysis without getting helped.
> i guess i am just frustrated, and would like to see more than the "quick fix" proposed
Yeah. I'd be very happy with a "quick fix" if it really worked, but it doesn't – not for most people on these boards, anyway.
> still i get this feeling that motivating factors are at work
In my case, I think there are SO MANY motivating factors at work, most of which will probably always remain mostly unconscious to me, that I decided continuing to look for them as a solution was counter-productive. Looking for them isn't bad, but it won't cure my mood or my behavior.
I guess that's why I felt whatever LSD could be used for, using it to find hidden motivating factors would not seem (to me) to be very promising.
My current personal strategy is
(a) using my deviant, off-label med AND
(b) trying to maintain a quasi-Buddhist "freedom" for my good & bad feelings as they come up.Allowing my feelings to occur more fully with less resistance and without trying to understand them has led to other, older, unexpected thoughts & feelings coming up. Some are wonderful, some are scary.
Before I found my current medication, the quasi-Buddhist therapy approach wasn't helping much. Now it's gradually becoming noticeably more helpful.
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