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PTSF59 – Psychedelics and Bipolar, with Benjamin Mudge

Psychedelics Today

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The Risks of Psychedelics for Bipolar People

The main risk is that the psychedelic substance will accelerate the bipolar brain into a state of mania and or even psychotic mania. This could be then that that bipolar person could be at great risk to themselves or to others. There are problems with taking silent, actually even microdosing silent for a sustained period of time can create a manic episode,. And likewise with I was, you know, certainly uncovered numerous cases of bipolar people going to an retreat center and basically being hospitalized afterwards as a result of a manic episode.

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