The General Daily Newspaper

The AD frequently writes about psychedelics as a therapeutic tool, and now also about trip therapy. The tenors of the articles vary, and we will note a few of them here.

• 'Truffle just as popular as banned magic mushrooms'
• 'Magic mushrooms are not a direct danger to public health.'
• MDMA, ketamine, and ayahuasca as medical agents? 'If you believe in it, it works'‘
• Magic mushrooms at breakfast for a better mood

Triptherapie: not two years with a therapist, but one good trip for a mental breakthrough

The best title is of course about triptherapie.nl And that is the headline above. How amazing is it when a client writes about us in the AD, with a title suggesting that the session we did with her was so powerful that it was 2 years of therapy in 1 day? On that particular day, I had no idea that Suus Ruis was a writer (Journalist/ author of all kinds of books/ professional essay writer/ freelance writer/sharpest pencil in the box in her own words). This individual truffle session at home was, therefore, initially intended to treat anxiety and depression.

The highlights of the article

Some highlights of the article to give an idea of what it is about:

After a turbulent youth full of trauma and loss, journalist Suus Ruis (47) struggles with anxiety and depression. Because she does not want to undergo long-term psychotherapy, she decides to turn to psychedelics, the active ingredient in truffles and magic mushrooms. 'And I am fiercely anti-drugs.'‘

Long story short: my feelings of anxiety didn't lessen over time, and when I was about 22, a devastating and pitch-black depression struck me down. Intensive psychotherapy and medication helped me recover, but it has always remained a point of concern.

Throughout the entire trip, the same image looms: me as a little girl in a small boat, sailing on a dark, wild sea. Well, sailing… clinging to a mast with white knuckles and just hoping the gigantic waves don't swallow me up. The moment the psilocybin slowly starts to wear off, I realize that those waves are so high and wild and uncontrollable because I make them that way. I have come to see life as an untamable, threatening sea. It is just a matter of waiting until that little boat capsizes.

To be honest: they aren't gone yet. But I notice that situations that normally scare the living daylights out of me—a confrontational phone call with a client, for example—suddenly affect me much less. It's as if a soft blanket has been placed over that stone in my stomach. And if fear does surface, it disappears much faster.

The full article

You can read the full article via the link below:

Triptherapie: not two years with a therapist but one good trip for a mental breakthrough (AD.nl)