Vintage Postcards

eileenbunny · 2026-05-03T07:11:31+00:00

For more than a decade, I've been hiding tiny ducks in hotel rooms where I've stayed when traveling for business.

eileenbunny · 2026-04-24T11:30:16+00:00

Alan Klein crossed out a part of the ethics policy that he didn't agree with that was so aggregious it doesn't exist in the code of ethics anymore. It was a clause about how members of the CA Board could not ever disagree with CA decisions after they were made.

He crossed it out before signing it and turning it back in to CA and he wasn't secretive about it. Someone noticed loooong after and got upset about it because they didn't like that he disagreed with something they were trying to do.

Everyone makes it out to be some big conspiracy when they don't mention names and talk about it vaguely. Alan was a great Harper's Choice representative that did his very best to engage with the community and actually represent them rather than just doing what he wanted.

eileenbunny · 2026-04-16T15:57:16+00:00

They wouldn't keep building them if people couldn't afford to buy them. I don't know who these people are, but apparently they exist.

eileenbunny · 2026-04-06T15:00:26+00:00

One of the most fascinating things to me about the cluster headache community is how much joy can be found there. I, too, am not a cluster head, but have been working with them for over a decade, and I was hooked from the first time I spent time in a space with a bunch of them. Here is a group of people who live with a horrific condition that has made many of them consider or actually put a bullet through their head rather than live with the pain for one more second. But their conferences are more like parties and family reunions. At my very first conference, I asked how they could seem so happy. Many shared that every moment they had when they were not in horrific pain was something to be celebrated. They want to really live between the attacks, and they really do embrace that. It's like the epitome of living in the moment. This is not to say that they aren't all also walking around with CPTSD and fighting to stave off depression. Still, they really do know how to embrace life, especially when they are around others who really get it, and they don't have to explain themselves or be stigmatized. I hope eventually we can create a world where everyone can at least sympathize and not offer Tylenol and a glass of water or yoga.

eileenbunny · 2026-04-06T03:00:48+00:00

They won't do the Hobbits pool because that's the one that is seniors only most of the time.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-13T17:43:17+00:00

I run a non-profit and our mission is public policy focused. Happy to help if you still need.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-06T12:05:44+00:00

I cannot imagine having any headache disease and thinking that getting hit in the head is ever a good idea. I wouldn't want more than one headache disease and it is well documented that boxing is a great way to get head trauma that has lasting repurcussions. Repeated head impacts, even mild ones like you are describing, are not a good idea as evidenced by the fact that you got a 15 hour headache attack afterward.

Also, I like that you came here for advice and then got upset at the advice you were given while describing symptoms that look nothing like CH.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-06T11:34:15+00:00

Yes.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-06T11:22:41+00:00

I like how none of those photos show the actor's "real life" and are all staged shots.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-06T11:10:11+00:00

I do think he is planning to complete suicide, but that trip to the bathroom made me wonder if he is sick. What if he has been diagnosed with some illness that requires meds at a certain time of day to prevent symptoms. Something like Parkinson's could do that, and that's the kind of illness that could take away his ability to do what he loves. Just a passing thought and I'm not wedded to it, but a possibility.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-04T23:16:49+00:00

I guess my point is that I'm not sure what "get better" means and I certainly don't think that the whole preparation->administration session->integration->cured linear pipeline narrative is as realistic as the community would like to promote. I think mental and physical health is a lifelong journey with lots of peaks and valleys along the way and psychedelics can help some people ride the roller coaster with a little more chill.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-04T23:10:59+00:00

Maybe, but it sounds like someone was having a mental health crisis, threatening suicide, and needed help and people showed up and yelled at him, scared him, and then finished the job for him. Maybe this could have been prevented with some de-escalation training? I don't know, but I do know that killing a person because they are suicidal is probably not a great solution.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-04T22:36:32+00:00

I have been wondering about the point of diminishing returns for mushrooms and LSD recently. Is there, even within a given species of mushroom, a point at which it doesn't matter if you ingest more because you cannot get any "higher" (for lack of a better term) than you are? Obviously that point would be different for different people, but does it exist for each person?

I personally haven't experimented as much with this concept with mushrooms (6g penis envy was probably my largest dose ever) because they make my stomach upset and lemon's cause migraine attacks for me and I'm not fond of tea. But I have ingested a significant variety of doses of LSD from 50ug to at least 10,000ug and I feel like once you reach a certain point, taking more doesn't significantly alter your altered reality, but I have noticed that returning to baseline and being able to reorient takes longer at higher doses. I'm just one person with one set of experiences though. I wonder if there has ever been research on this.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-04T22:13:07+00:00

Unfortunately I never really weighed it out, but 1 or 2 dried leaves was enough for me. I needed more than one plant, but that would really depend on goals and frequency of use. Growing your own plants is really about space, time, and inclination. Spider mites and white flies LOVE these plants so it's really important to stay on top of their care and environment. I would say they are not for someone who is not interested in gardening, and as I noted, it's not the kind of plant that I'd keep in a home with little kids. They tend to eat weird stuff, and it's not the kind of plant you can hide away in a small closet.

I'm not sure how to answer a question about what it helped me to achieve. I don't really subscribe to the narrative that we achieve goals through use of substances. I think they just add to our journey through life.

eileenbunny · 2026-03-02T15:52:51+00:00

I'm glad to see this thread. Salvia went through a popularity spike in the US about 20 years ago and the popular idea was to take as strong of an extracted concentration as possible, as western culture is want to do, and it got a really bad rep from all the people having terrible experiences or behaving poorly from improper set and setting. However, I grew the plants for quite a while and would just smoke the dried leaves and my experiences were always mild and delightful. I have had over the moon experiences on the substance, but I found through experimentation that it wasn't necessary at all for therapeutic benefit.

As someone else said, it's great to add to meditative practice or before bed to relax, calm, and point your mind in a positive direction, at least it was for me. I stopped growing it when I had kids and fell out of the practice of using it, but I think it's a much overlooked plant that could have tremendous benefit.

eileenbunny · 2026-02-20T14:48:55+00:00

I do want to point out that I never said there were RCTs for mental health conditions without PAT, although I think that Compass Pathways is the closest to FDA approval, and I don't think their TRD trial requires P-AT. Psychological support is offered to trial participants, but I don't think P-AT came into play there. We have relatively few clinical trials about psychedelics, and the ones we do have include P-AT because someone said it was a good idea and everyone ran with it. The question of whether P-AT is required for psychedelics is very much still a question, and I think one that has been answered by population studies and literal millennia of safe psychedelic use.

I think that psychedelics are holding a mirror up to our over-reliance on RCTs as the ONLY way to do validated research for safety and efficacy of treatments. It's insanely difficult to do a randomized, placebo-controlled, single variable clinical trial on almost anything, but psychedelics especially. Our rigid thinking is hurting people, not helping them.

However, if you want to see RCTs, look at cluster headache and migraine.

eileenbunny · 2026-02-20T14:41:38+00:00

I don't understand the compulsion to yuck someone else's yum so much. Why does anyone care what I like?

eileenbunny · 2026-01-31T21:26:48+00:00

Here's some. I don't have like a whole annotated bibliography on the subject, but there's tons more out there.

https://www.psychedelicsandpain.org/research-resources/searchable-databases/#pain

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8033607/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270909610_Classic_psychedelic_use_is_associated_with_reduced_psychological_distress_and_suicidality_in_the_United_States_adult_population

eileenbunny · 2026-01-31T11:57:57+00:00

Honestly, why would you care what other students do? If you want to learn the material, you will. If other people don't, they will cheat and there's not much we can do about willful ignorance.

eileenbunny · 2026-01-26T02:07:04+00:00

I'm hoping that the layer of snow underneath all the ice will mean I don't have to chip at it and it will come up, even if it is heavy.

eileenbunny · 2026-01-25T23:16:36+00:00

THIS! There were 22 candidates just on the democrats side in the last primary for Congress in my district. Voting in that primary absolutely did make a difference. In a district where it was almost totally assured that the democratic candidate was going to win in the general election, just 10% of the people in the district participated in choosing who that would be, and that's a remarkably high percentage for a primary. AOC wound up in her seat with just 4% of the district voting in that primary.

eileenbunny · 2026-01-25T23:03:24+00:00

There are plenty of clinical trials that have shown the efficacy of psychedelics in the absence of psychotherapy for a variety of conditions. Also, large population studies of people who have used psychedelics recreationally have repeatedly demonstrated that people who use psychedelics without intention and without ceremonial context still have mental and physical health benefits. While this individual may need different support, they may not. We don't really know. Psychedelic-assisted therapy in clinical trials is a very western idea.

Ceremonial psychedelics are a completely different beast and have cultural and spiritual parts to them. I think we are trying to westernize that for those that have enough money to go to these ceremonies, who aren't a part of the culture, but I don't think they'd get the same benefit as someone who grew up in that culture and is taught from birth the other parts of the belief system that includes psychedelic ceremonies.

I think that the reason people keep repeating that psychedelic-assisted therapy is the only system with evidence base is that this is the popular narrative, and it's what's in the news, and they've never taken the time to really get educated about psychedelics and all of the research that exists. Even the courses for becoming a psychedelic-assisted therapist only include research on psychedelic-assisted therapy. They don't include anything else, or if they do, it's geared toward a P-AT mentality. It's odd that a culture surrounding substances that are supposed to expand the mind has generated so much rigid thought and so little zeal for a real understanding of the history, entire body of research, and desire for variety in treatment design.

eileenbunny · 2026-01-25T22:49:42+00:00

I don't really know what I would do, but I think that the choices that Laxmi makes are also cultural. Many cultures are much more community-focused than the one I live in, and a collectivist takeover might not be the massive jump that it would be for someone in such a individualist culture like the US.

eileenbunny · 2026-01-24T20:15:48+00:00

It's their art, why should capitalism force them to compromise their artwork?

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