@HolBjo

Psychologist and PhD candidate. Studying the interplay between chronic pain, PTSD and addiction.

Joined January 2022
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A review covering our clinical experience working with persistent challenges after using psychedelics and the research literature. Might be of interest @RCarhartHarris @Drug_Researcher @HDourron @TheBorisLab @JacobSAday @ExistWell @tommaso_barba psykologtidsskriftet.no/arti…

Persistent Altered States: Psychological Treatment of Psychedelic Adverse Effects

In the past decade, interest in the effects of psychedelic substances on consciousness, brain function and psychological suffering has grow…

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Replying to @GrantHBrennerMD
Depends if some criteria is required for something being "a trauma" or not. If the term is sufficiently vague and inflated it is hard to stop anybody from defining themselves as traumatized. Possibly if one truly belive but misattribute symptoms for some benefit/compensation
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The most interesting question is whether having a very broad conception of trauma (i.e., less severe events and distress being included) has consequences for how strong and persisting such symptoms become pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3419…

Does broadening one's concept of trauma undermine resilience? - PubMed

Objective: The term "trauma" seems to have expanded from a narrow usage (referring exclusively to extreme events such as rape and warfare) to a broad usage (encompassing almost any event that results...

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Check this HPPD survey study out of East London: uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jf…
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Replying to @rascality
Seems like a fairly semantic distinction if all the qualitative capacities are preserved but just have different labels. In the popular psyche narcissism denotes the grandiose extreme end, do we lose anything important by going along? Just curious, not necessarily in disagreement
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One line of reasoning might be that it encourages simplistic, either-or-thinking, and people would be better off if they are capable of thinking more in terms of degrees and and avoid undue pathologizing. Might be important in this sense?
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What are the most promising conditions traditionally considered 'somatic' that may benefit from psychedelic therapy? In what way and by which primary mechanism? @REMAPTherapy @Drug_Researcher @RCarhartHarris @jamesbclose @juliabornemann @algekalipso @JacobSAday @JoelCaste11anos
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What would be the most interesting phenomena and type of study to conduct if the goal is to investigate negative effects of psychedelics? @PerceptionFdn @ManojDoss @psybalazs @PhilCorlett1 @HDourron @ee_schenberg @BrianBarnettMD @JulesEvans11 @psychedelicrisk @MichaelHaichin
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Please also chime in regarding ongoing studies or historic literature on negative effects. For the record, not at all meant as an anti-psychedelics tweet. Just curious regarding this area in addition to the positive/therapeutic effects.
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