What is a bad trip? 5 Questions for Jules Evans of The Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project
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Evans discusses the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project and what he and his co-researchers hope to learn from the data they collect.
Jules Evans grew up in London’s rave scene in the 1990s. He had his first LSD trip at 15, then experimented with MDMA and mushrooms. At 18, he had a very bad trip on LSD. Over the next five years, his mental health worsened; he worried that he’d permanently damaged his brain. Eventually, he was diagnosed with PTSD and social anxiety. With support from his family, he saw a psychiatrist, who treated him with a form of psychotherapy called eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR. It didn’t help. He found a support group for social anxiety that used a different psychological…
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