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Cargando... A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Lifepor Ayelet Waldman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Educational and funny. ( ) Not to put too fine a point on it, Waldman is an oversharer. If you want to know more than you really should about her father, her husband, and especially her personal physical and emotional problems, you've come to the right place. On the other hand, she's extremely intelligent, and the sections in which she details the surprising facts she uncovered while researching the history and pharmocology of what used to be called the "hallucinogens" are invaluably informative. There is stuff here that you need to know if you're considering microdosing, or (for that matter) embarking on a full-fledged psychedelic journey for the first time. It's an easier and quicker read than Michael Pollan's lengthier and more intellectual How to Change Your Mind. That book, like this one, is not a how-to book, which you're unlikely to find while the possession of these drugs is still criminalized in most places. But taken together, these two books form a helpful, current introduction to "mind-manifesting" substances and why they're experiencing a comeback after a couple generations of suppression. A Really Good Day is fascinating, often hilarious, but also quite serious and thought-provoking. Although I've never read her fiction, Ayelet Waldman has a voice like few others in her non-fiction, and it's one I love. She's bracingly frank, self-deprecating, honest, and above all intelligent and unflinching in her analysis of so many things, from parenting and her marriage to the tragic folly of U.S. drug policy. This book is not just a "come along with me while I take LSD for a month" stunt book, like so many others in the genre that has overflowed grotesquely since Eat, Pray, Love was published. It is carefully, almost obsessively, researched, and every funny and/or personal anecdote is balanced by several paragraphs of considered argument and deep delving into the thorny personal and cultural questions around the right to alter one's consciousness. If you're open to thinking outside the box on these issues (or maybe especially if you're not), A Really Good Day is a really good, and important, read. This is the first book by Waldman I've read, and I suspect I'll be reading more. I found the combination of memoir with research on drug culture and policy quite provocative...I really want to read more of what informed her research now. She makes a compelling argument for the legalization of LSD and other drugs (not that I needed much convincing). sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe; she has tried nearly every medication possible; her husband and children are suffering with her. So she opens the vial, places two drops on her tongue, and joins the ranks of an underground but increasingly vocal group of scientists and civilians successfully using therapeutic microdoses of LSD. As Waldman charts her experience over the course of a month-bursts of productivity, sleepless nights, a newfound sense of equanimity-she also explores the history and mythology of LSD, the cutting-edge research into the drug, and the byzantine policies that control it. Drawing on her experience as a federal public defender, and as the mother of teenagers, and her research into the therapeutic value of psychedelics, Waldman has produced a book that is eye-opening, often hilarious, and utterly enthralling. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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