Psychedelic medicine is coming — but who’s going to guide your trip?
National Geographic reports: "The U.S. may approve therapies using MDMA and psilocybin — aka ecstasy and magic mushrooms. The medical community is preparing for the deluge of demand."
My latest song is about a relationship (friendship/client) I had with a covert narcissist (NPD). It's taken me a long time to forgive myself for falling for her bullshit. This video does a good job explaining how a covert narcissist operates.
We weren't really "friends" but acquaintances in a #SongWriting group that we were both active with. She #LoveBombed me (or Friendship Bombed me, rather), complimenting my #MusicProduction skills and songwriting, and my general taste in music. It's embarrassing how much she buttered me up, and since I had low self-esteem, I fell for it easily. She asked me to produce her album, which I was super excited to do.
She asked me to produce--on the advice of a performance coach who encouraged her to hire women as much as possible for the project, since women are sorely underrepresented in the #MusicIndustry. As her producer, she said she would split profits with me, promising to talk to her lawyer, because she "couldn't afford to pay much" up front, especially with how much studios and session musicians can cost.
I'll have to finish this story later; I need sleep. But I think you see where this is going, right?
The album took just over a year to complete, and I realized about 4 months in that something was...off with this lady. The signs were there from the beginning, but I was too blinded by her attention and compliments and delusions of grandeur to see it clearly. 😭
One gift of being a #therapist is seeing how people's internal experience is SO DIFFERENT than the external presentation of the same experience. Things like panic attacks, autistic meltdowns, people with borderline personality disorder and perceived abandonment... And because the external presentation is communicated more in media, people often don't pattern match their internal experience to what they've heard about the external experience.
The Technological #Antisolutions post has been getting some attention recently. A few months back, I was contracted to extend that post to ~4,000 words for a magazine. For a variety of reasons, that didn't work out, so I've posted it on the blog: