The General Newspaper

The AD writes more often about psychedelics as a therapeutic tool and now also about trip therapy. The scope of the articles varies and we list a few here.

• 'Truffle just as popular as forbidden mushrooms'
• 'The magic mushroom is not a direct threat to public health'
• MDMA, ketamine and ayahuasca as a medical remedy? "If you believe in it, it works"
• Mushrooms at breakfast for a better mood

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

The best title, of course, is about triptherapie.nl and that's the headline above. How great is it when a client writes about us in AD whose title suggests that the session we did with her was so strong it was 2 years of therapy in 1 day? On that particular day I did not know at all that Suus Ruis was a writer (Journalist/ author of all kinds of books/ professional drafting writer/ hired word/ sharpest pencil in the box in her own words). This individual truffle session at home was therefore initially intended to treat fears and depression.

The highlights of the article

Some highlights of the article to be able to create an image of what it is about:

After a turbulent childhood full of trauma and loss, journalist Suus Ruis (47) struggles with fears and depression. Because she does not feel like long-term psychotherapy, she decides to go for psychedelics, the active substance in truffles and magic mushrooms. "And I'm still fiercely anti-drug."

Long story short: my anxiety didn't diminish over time, and when I was about 22 years old, a heavy and jet-black depression knocked me down. Intensive psychotherapy and medication helped me recover, but it has always remained a point of attention.

The same image looms throughout the trip: me as a little girl on a boat, sailing on a dark, raging sea. Well, sailing… clinging to a mast with white knuckles and hoping the gigantic waves don't swallow me up. The moment the psilocybin slowly starts to wear off, I realize those waves are so high and ferocious and uncontrollable because I make them so. I have come to see life as an indomitable, menacing sea. Just waiting for the boat to capsize.

To be fair, they're not gone yet. But I notice that situations that normally scare me - a confrontational phone call with a client, for example - suddenly affect me much less. As if a soft blanket had been placed over that stone in my stomach. And when fear does appear, it disappears much faster.

The full article

You can read the full article via the link below:

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