It turns out when i is greater than 0, it decreases the present value of future payments. Who knew? I've been working in this industry for five years and I've never seen it happen.
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Thank you for the chuckle this gave me!
Caution is useful, but it’s not always an unalloyed good.
Chemotherapy isn’t healthy or safe, but the thing it’s used to stop is even worse.
I’m imagining a boolean column somewhere dedicated to tracking whether every patient has been attacked by an orca or not. It’s fun to imagine things sometimes
It’s hard to convey why that would be or even what a ‘mystical’ experience is, but speaking as someone who has been profoundly helped by this modality in my own journey, that finding tracks pretty well with my experience.
Obviously take studies of new findings with a grain of salt, and n=1 anecdotes even more hesitantly, but before psychedelic medicine, I was stuck in a deep depression that no psychological, psychiatric, or medical treatment could budge.
I wanted desperately for anything to help, begging for even a placebo effect I could hang my hat on!
After beginning treatment utilizing psychedelic medicine, I have been given a life I could have never imagined before. I’m not cured by any means and it’s not all sunshine and roses, but I went from virtually being a shut-in, sometimes incapable of showering even once a week, to enjoying being around people, hanging out with old friends and making new ones, and easily handling a 40-hour work week at a retail job, within 6 months. After being stuck for four and a half years before that, unemployed and numb inside.
And that’s only the quantitative, objective measures. I’ve also gained a richness in my emotional being that I was shut off from before that I’m so incredibly grateful to have received.
To be clear, this has been the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life, but without a doubt it has also been the most rewarding.
One more earnest warning, I’m not advocating you or anyone else pursue this treatment. While I do believe it represents a major step forward in the treatment of many forms of mental illness, it is not a magic pill or a quick fix.
It should be regarded with the same seriousness as any surgery or other major medical intervention. This stuff can be very disruptive to your life in the short and medium term and there are very real risks involved that you can’t simply hand-wave away. There are a lot of advocates in the field who I feel are too overzealous and push people towards it hard and bill it as a panacea. Do your research and be cautious, and don’t take lightly the decision to pursue this form of treatment. You are the one who must make these decisions for yourself, in your life.
If you are interested in learning about psychedelic medicine, one very helpful resource I’ve come across for beginners is “The Beginner’s Guide to Psychedelic Medicine” [1] by Tucker Max.
Best of luck to you in your journeys, all of you. And no matter what’s happened to you or what you’ve done, or what you’re going through right now, I want you to know that you matter! You deserve to have a wonderful life, and I hope that every day brings you a little closer to that lovely place, and with it a little more hope! “Remember, I’m pulling for ya! We’re all in this together!” [2]
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707356/
[1] https://www.tuckermax.com/beginners-guide-to-psychedelics/
It can’t be truly effective in the long run if you drive people insane on a long road to pernicion.
It does bring to mind (to me anyway) the fantastic and charming movie about an old school booksellers running up against modernity, “You’ve Got Mail”. (1998)
https://www.chessdom.com/firouzja-prepares-for-nepo-with-the...
“Brooks Brothers!”