XPost: alt.drugs.psychedelics, alt.drugs, alt.drugs.rfg   
   XPost: rec.drugs.psychedelic   
   From: rfgdxm@KILLSPAMMERSmochamail.com   
      
   Frederick Burroughs wrote:   
   > "rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski" wrote:   
      
   >>    Exactly. I think the problem is when people see the word   
   >> "psychosis" they get an image in their mind of Norman Bates and   
   >> knives. This isn't the medical definition.   
   >   
   > Not exactly.  Most people, including doctors, probably would prefer a   
   > psychedelic state-of-mind over psychosis.   
      
      Citations from peer reviewed medical literature this is true for   
   doctors, please?   
      
   > The problem is a medical   
   > definition has applicability to a medical or clinical setting.  Our   
   > use of psychedelics is not confined nor constrained by a clinical   
   > definition.   
      
      "Our"?? Who do you speak for?   
      
   > If my friends and I are tripping around a campfire in the high desert   
   > of the southwest US, we are anything but psychotic; we are extremely   
   > fine tuned into each other and our environment.  Indeed, at times use   
   > of a psychedelic can be antipsychotomimetic, bringing you very clearly   
   > into the here and now.  (As a matter of fact, psychedelics have an   
   > overwhelmingly antipsychotomimetic effect, for me.)  One can achieve a   
   > very close, empathic understanding of other individuals, and a   
   > hyper-awareness of one's environment; quite at odds with the medical   
   > definition of psychosis.   
      
     And the rest of the world agrees?   
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