I’m writing to you from my very empty new home in San Diego—officially post-residency and gearing up for the launch of my practice, Goodman Psychiatry (opening virtual doors July 1st!).
Love the updates, excited for the launch of Goodman Psychiatry on July 1st! How exciting. Great morning routine, I actually did the meditation and read before using my phone in the morning today because of you. It works great!
Welcome to beautiful San Diego with its perfect weather! 👍 Thank you for sharing all this information. I’m particularly interested in the topics of ChatGPT warnings, psilocybin (I use this as part of my psychedelic therapy), wake hygiene, and the connection between anxiety and kissing. I need to learn more about that. I look forward to reading more of your content!🙏🌹
A funny thing I remembered when reading the findings of the "magic mushrooms". It was documented in Alcoholics Anonymous that one of their founders suffered from severe depression after getting sober. They say he was treated for a while with LSD. I don't know the actual results. He stayed sober until his death, though.
I would agree what you 1st read in the AM and contemplate has an impact on your day & likely cumulative.
CoVID remains a concern, coupled with a host of preventable if not greatly mitigated health issues. There remain many conflict zones through the world. We also have Trump who has done nothing to improve America & continues to impact the global economy & communities. I can be challenged on the former yet the latter is indisputable...ok from my lens.
We live & for many struggle to survive each day. We should 🙏 for those in need (everyone) to find the energy to start their day with some measure of positivity.
Hello. Have you had any experience in the heart opener kanna? I've only microdosed with magic mushrooms - not the actual mushroom, it was in a pill form or in a gummy form....but it was only 150 - 300mg.
I've never ever done 5 grams or 3grams. I'm way too scared & I've seen great results in 150mg. Taking just 150mg once every 4 days for 20 - 30 days. What am improvement. And I don't know if you have a personal experience in microdosing yourself, but I can tell setting an intention. It really helps with the direction. Because each time that I had anything like that, which was march or april 2024 - my intention was always. I want clarity of thought, and I wanted to really declutter, and people don't really understand a lot of times I mean, declutter not dusting or cleaning up. I'm just talking about decluttering the very limited 450 square feet that I have here, because I can't expand I wish I had 900 Or eight hundred square feet, all to myself, and it's really hard to expand with only four hundred and fifty square feet.
That means I gotta continually get rid of paperwork, and I don't want it here. I can't buy anything new, and if I do whatever's new, something else, that's old has to leave because I just can't clutter my stuff.
It sounds utterly amazing reading your move. I don't know how big your space was before, but now that you have a new home to move into, you probably feel more expanded, and I wish I can experience that for myself. But living in southern california, I need to make about 5k - 7k dollars a month just to be able to afford a reasonable 900 square feet apartment in temecula.
I look forward to reading more of your posts because i'm highly interested in microdosing, and there's something called....
Psychedelic peer support specialists, or something like that.
I had no idea those were basically trip Sitters. But they are trained and they have to go through some things.And I guess they have to take a hero.Dose to know what it's like, I would never take a hero dose
Plus it took me about 3 years to get off of zoloft, and I was told from Liam general practitioner in 2004, do not take these long-term. I will help you get over the grief of losing your stepfather. But you cannot go to any other doctor and tell him you're on zoloff, because if you do, you will get labeled with major depression, which you don't, have you have grief? And I will help you with the grief and I didn't listen. And I went to another doctor that was in the same city that I lived in. And I was slapped with the label, and a year later, I was still taking zoloff, / 2008I tried to get off, and it wasn't until 2011 totally free of all psychiatric medicines. No more antidepressants. It took a long time to get off and I will never go back on again ever ever ever.
We saw what happened to my mother with the protracted withdrawal and akathisia that she had, after all, to change this change that abruptly, stop change this taper off of two weeks, taper, off of three weeks and nobody understood.And I was gaslit and my mom was gaslit.
I'm still trying to write this whole entire biography about what happened to my mother and not getting the diagnosis of dementia properly, and nobody wanted to diagnose her, not the psychiatrist, not the neurologist, not the general practitioner, even though there was an mri report of her brain.
I feel like the system failed me.And my mother.
And asAnd as I'm editing this whole document, I'm knowing now I can't write about a day to date account of what happened to my mom? I have to write a week to week account because if I write a day to day account with my mother m. How her brain deteriorated so quickly people are going to know me. As the negative daughter or the negative anti psychiatry woman and I don't think people are going to be able to handle what I write.
I think people need to know and be informed about protracted withdrawal, but I cannot write a day to day account of what happened to my mom.
As I read it and edit it, i'm going back to when she was alive in 2017. And I can see that I had no idea I was in the middle of a hell.
Dear Jake, thank you for this update. Had not heard about the EEG study on how different the brain works, whether AI supports your writing or not. Very interesting, will take a deeper dive into this.
Just this morning, I posted an article about a recent Stanford University study that showed how LLMs often generate stigmatizing or harmful responses, which are not in line with therapists' best practices (e.g., colluding with delusions, inappropriate responses to potential suicidal ideation). Happy to share this with anyone further interested in this topic, and open the discussion:
Love the updates, excited for the launch of Goodman Psychiatry on July 1st! How exciting. Great morning routine, I actually did the meditation and read before using my phone in the morning today because of you. It works great!
amazing how did it feel??
amazing
Welcome to beautiful San Diego with its perfect weather! 👍 Thank you for sharing all this information. I’m particularly interested in the topics of ChatGPT warnings, psilocybin (I use this as part of my psychedelic therapy), wake hygiene, and the connection between anxiety and kissing. I need to learn more about that. I look forward to reading more of your content!🙏🌹
Thank you Sally! Adding these to my list of topics!
Welcome to San Diego!
Thank you Anita! So excited to settle in and explore!
Good stuff, Jake. I love your name for a morning routine —Wake Hygiene is super important for brain health. Congrats on the new home!
Thank you so much!!
A funny thing I remembered when reading the findings of the "magic mushrooms". It was documented in Alcoholics Anonymous that one of their founders suffered from severe depression after getting sober. They say he was treated for a while with LSD. I don't know the actual results. He stayed sober until his death, though.
Thank you for sharing all these information.
I would agree what you 1st read in the AM and contemplate has an impact on your day & likely cumulative.
CoVID remains a concern, coupled with a host of preventable if not greatly mitigated health issues. There remain many conflict zones through the world. We also have Trump who has done nothing to improve America & continues to impact the global economy & communities. I can be challenged on the former yet the latter is indisputable...ok from my lens.
We live & for many struggle to survive each day. We should 🙏 for those in need (everyone) to find the energy to start their day with some measure of positivity.
JJF Phm 🇨🇦
Hello. Have you had any experience in the heart opener kanna? I've only microdosed with magic mushrooms - not the actual mushroom, it was in a pill form or in a gummy form....but it was only 150 - 300mg.
I've never ever done 5 grams or 3grams. I'm way too scared & I've seen great results in 150mg. Taking just 150mg once every 4 days for 20 - 30 days. What am improvement. And I don't know if you have a personal experience in microdosing yourself, but I can tell setting an intention. It really helps with the direction. Because each time that I had anything like that, which was march or april 2024 - my intention was always. I want clarity of thought, and I wanted to really declutter, and people don't really understand a lot of times I mean, declutter not dusting or cleaning up. I'm just talking about decluttering the very limited 450 square feet that I have here, because I can't expand I wish I had 900 Or eight hundred square feet, all to myself, and it's really hard to expand with only four hundred and fifty square feet.
That means I gotta continually get rid of paperwork, and I don't want it here. I can't buy anything new, and if I do whatever's new, something else, that's old has to leave because I just can't clutter my stuff.
It sounds utterly amazing reading your move. I don't know how big your space was before, but now that you have a new home to move into, you probably feel more expanded, and I wish I can experience that for myself. But living in southern california, I need to make about 5k - 7k dollars a month just to be able to afford a reasonable 900 square feet apartment in temecula.
I look forward to reading more of your posts because i'm highly interested in microdosing, and there's something called....
Psychedelic peer support specialists, or something like that.
I had no idea those were basically trip Sitters. But they are trained and they have to go through some things.And I guess they have to take a hero.Dose to know what it's like, I would never take a hero dose
Plus it took me about 3 years to get off of zoloft, and I was told from Liam general practitioner in 2004, do not take these long-term. I will help you get over the grief of losing your stepfather. But you cannot go to any other doctor and tell him you're on zoloff, because if you do, you will get labeled with major depression, which you don't, have you have grief? And I will help you with the grief and I didn't listen. And I went to another doctor that was in the same city that I lived in. And I was slapped with the label, and a year later, I was still taking zoloff, / 2008I tried to get off, and it wasn't until 2011 totally free of all psychiatric medicines. No more antidepressants. It took a long time to get off and I will never go back on again ever ever ever.
We saw what happened to my mother with the protracted withdrawal and akathisia that she had, after all, to change this change that abruptly, stop change this taper off of two weeks, taper, off of three weeks and nobody understood.And I was gaslit and my mom was gaslit.
I'm still trying to write this whole entire biography about what happened to my mother and not getting the diagnosis of dementia properly, and nobody wanted to diagnose her, not the psychiatrist, not the neurologist, not the general practitioner, even though there was an mri report of her brain.
I feel like the system failed me.And my mother.
And asAnd as I'm editing this whole document, I'm knowing now I can't write about a day to date account of what happened to my mom? I have to write a week to week account because if I write a day to day account with my mother m. How her brain deteriorated so quickly people are going to know me. As the negative daughter or the negative anti psychiatry woman and I don't think people are going to be able to handle what I write.
I think people need to know and be informed about protracted withdrawal, but I cannot write a day to day account of what happened to my mom.
As I read it and edit it, i'm going back to when she was alive in 2017. And I can see that I had no idea I was in the middle of a hell.
Sandrasstargaze.substack.com
Dear Jake, thank you for this update. Had not heard about the EEG study on how different the brain works, whether AI supports your writing or not. Very interesting, will take a deeper dive into this.
Just this morning, I posted an article about a recent Stanford University study that showed how LLMs often generate stigmatizing or harmful responses, which are not in line with therapists' best practices (e.g., colluding with delusions, inappropriate responses to potential suicidal ideation). Happy to share this with anyone further interested in this topic, and open the discussion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/wfmai/p/where-ai-still-fails-the-therapy?r=3row1i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web