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Drugs to repress emotions

Drugs to accept emotions

Drugs to create emotions

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Tools to build walls

Tools to put up lights near walls

Tools to break down walls

We couldn't otherwise build, light and tear down walls with just our minds. Learning how to handle and accept emotions is possible with our minds and the help of each other, but in societies where the full range of emotions are mostly suppressed in public life, and many causes for negative emotions normalized, people often rely drugs and other "workarounds".

We could use our hands!

But to answer in earnest: All I want is deep and good and rigorous science.

Personally I've had intimate knowledge of people approaching PTSD using these methods. PTSD is ... not fair. And the experience was utterly transformative, and is probably the strongest moral call to action I have encountered. It was based on science and I will unendingly call for more of the science. Rigorous, self-critical science.

It does sound a bit bleak. Are these drugs better or worse than the animalistic hormones locked in our bodies? Mature adults know how to handle the surging hormones that destroy teen emotions, maybe humans can learn to deal with drugs... but only with constant exposure, just the same as we've done in all our adolescence.

I am in no way for or against such drugs, having not experienced any psychedelics or behavior control drugs in my entire life. Just a philosophical thought I had after I read your comment.

I'd like to point out something: "Mature adults know how to handle the surging hormones...."

This is not true for 99.99% of adults: proof: if adults would know how to control "hormones" they would never experience fear, doubt, anxiety,...

Issue in most cases seems to be repressed childhood emotions.

handle != control

I hope I will always be able to feel fear and doubt, and that no drug can steal that experience from me. Just as people who can't feel physical pain are in tremendous danger every moment of their life, without the ability to feel fear or doubt, you would also be ignorant of danger.

Anxiety is another beast right? Anxiety is the negative reaction to fear and doubt. Lets leave adults out, mature individuals can handle small amounts of anxiety.

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