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It's also because there is a stigma around mental reasons. "Hypochondria", "Hysteria", "Psychosomatic" ... all these words have negative connotations, even though the mind/body connection is a real thing.

Would be a fascinating study to have Long Covid patients drop LSD and see for effects.

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I dropped acid in 2020 specifically to see if it would help with long COVID. It did not, but I did heal in time.

I mean, hypochondria is definitely not a good thing, tbf! And psychosomatic illnesses are qualitatively different from physical ones, in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Hopefully all doctors are on board with the whole “you can’t just snap yourself out of mental illness” thing by now, but that’s perhaps a bit naive…

people rarely snap themselves out, but they can dig themselves out. It usually boils down to the same recommendations of sleep, diet, exercise, and confronting issues. Sometimes medicine or therapy can help.

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