(Part 3) Top products from r/eldertrees

Milton Erickson was the greatest therapist of the 20th century. Contact his foundation to hook up with a worldclass therapist, dedicated to helping your son, as opposed to a therapist who wants to stretch out the therapy to as many profitable sessions as possible. https://www.erickson-foundation.org/institutes/
''As all passionate endeavors, the Milton H. Erickson Foundation began with a dream.

In 1974, a young, earnest psychologist named Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. had a noble aspiration. He wanted to hold an educational meeting of mental health professionals. For six years, Dr. Zeig, along with other colleagues, trained and mentored under Milton H. Erickson M. D., the world’s foremost authority on hypnosis. Dr. Erickson never charged his students, so to express his gratitude and to offer Dr. Erickson an opportunity to witness the tremendous impact he had made in the field, Dr. Zeig organized the first Congress. As plans were underway, the need to establish a more formal non-profit educational foundation was recognized. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation was incorporated October 29, 1979. Unfortunately, Dr. Erickson died nine months before the Congress but was able to appreciate that 750 had already registered. The Congress, held in December of 1980, attracted more than 2,000 and was the largest meeting ever held on the topic of hypnosis.

Over the next 30-plus years, the Foundation has grown to offer more Congresses; conferences on brief therapy and couples therapy; an Evolution of Psychotherapy conference; training workshops, including the Intensives and Master Classes; a rich and expansive archive; the Foundation Press which offers information resources and studies of Dr. Erickson’s methods and Ericksonian related topics; an Erickson Center for Hypnosis and Psychotherapy where patients pay on a sliding scale; a newsletter published three times a year; and more recently, a museum, formerly the home where Dr. Erickson lived and worked the last decade of his life.''
https://www.erickson-foundation.org/about-us/
Read this book, and offer a copy to your son. Hypnosis is fascinating,and your son may become interested and start reading about therapy, which is quite therapeutic. https://www.amazon.com/Frogs-into-Princes-Linguistic-Programming/dp/0911226192
The book is not boring, not stiff, but rather, entertaining and funny.
What's it about? http://www.nlp.com/what-is-nlp/

Yes! In fact we are working on a couple of longterm projects primarily with Dr. Kirk Wilhelmsen at UNC Chapel Hill (as well as some other researchers) looking at this, as well as from a perspective of addiction (how addiction causes genomic changes and vice versa). He is publishing a lot of alcohol-related studies (ETOH easy to get your hands on like tobacco) of this sort, but we are working through the gamut of substances using the same model - looking at changes in the genomes of users versus non-users (it's striking). There's no reason this can't be applied to other substances, although the best results come from sampling a large group of individuals that consume a substance regularly.

The word is that the $1000 genome is not possible right now, but it is. We run more samples than anyone else in the SE. That, along with our facility's status as a CoRE allows us to do a lot of wheeling and dealing in order to test out new technologies (that we get at a discount as the first customer) and do trades for services and equipment.

We primarily support our own researchers, but with our reputation growing, we now have large private projects (from big companies) coming in the door frequently. I can't confirm or deny that we've done personal genomes, but theoretically the tools and protocols exist, as well as the critical mass needed to make it cheap. And lab ninjas that can be in and out with data before dawn.

edit 1: also your family physician will have a desktop sequencer in his office within the next 9 years to provide personalized treatments. The future is here!

edit 2: found it.

edit 3: another guy (Dr. William Valdar) working on the effects of drugs on genomes.

edit 4: I believe you can volunteer as a test subject in these clinical studies if you meet the criteria, but that's just hearsay in the department.

Wow, everyone is saying that the trick is not to get too high, but I have read a ton of non-fiction books while really wasted and absolutely loved them.

Such as "Man and His Symbols", Carl Jung.

As an aside, me and my husband had a couple over for the evening recently, while I was reading "Hamlet's Mill". Contraversial, I know, but still fascinating reading... Especially when stoned.

Anyway, I knew the husband, but not the wife. And she sat next to me on the sofa, took one look at the book and actually said "What are you reading for?"

She really thought that I was holding a book that I couldn't read, just to impress people. And there was only my husband and me there when they turned up.

There are some good books to get going - this is one of the easiest and best written:

Marijuana Grower's Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation

The way to go mad, more like.

That stuff messed me up pretty good in my teens. Leave the lights on at night cause I was freaked out grade stuff indeed.

Have you read "Resume With Monsters"? Really well put together modern take on the Lovecraft mythos and modern corporate culture. I'm usually pretty dismissive of Lovecraft 'tributes' but this one is excellent.

> I often feel like this in these type of group smoking situations and I'm tired of it. its like as soon as I notice I haven't said anything in a while it gets worse. Like I keep thinking of things to say or do, but nothing is ever good enough.

It sounds like you are feeling a little bit of social anxiety when you consume too much THC. If high amounts of THC make you a little anxious, it might be a good idea to not get that high in social situations.

You could also try taking some CBD, which helps treat anxiety, and it can also modulate the effects of THC, to make it less anxiety-inducing.

If you are interested in self-improvement, you could also learn some techniques on how to deal with anxiety by reading a book like When Panic Attacks.

I have this case. And I love it.

https://www.amazon.com/Apothecarry-Case-Handmade-Storage-Connoisseur/dp/B07R652GN1

Has a lock. Has plenty of room for all kinds of wares. And looks really really cool.

Edit: whoops. Not refrigerated. Still love it though.

I'd also suggest Last Chance to See.

It's really interesting to see Adams blend his humor into such a different subject as endangered species.

If you want to read some interesting books on human-plant relationships, including cannabis, check out Pharmako/Poeia and its companion volumes.

Such a smart comic strip, I used to read it every day!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Calvin-Hobbes-v/dp/0740748475

I'm currently reading Marihuana Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon. It's old (but surprisingly up to date), about trees, and written by an expert in psychiatry. Sounds right up your alley.

http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Reconsidered-Grinspoon/dp/0932551130

Read this book. https://www.amazon.com/Realm-Hungry-Ghosts-Encounters-Addiction/dp/155643880X

Accept that you may never stop smoking but maybe a reduction in smoking maybe a short-term goal that you can make.

I think you should read The Power of Now!. I found it around the time that I was feeling existential in a similar manner. And it has helped immensely.

I remember leafing through a copy in the late 70's. There's this little online store that has a few copies still.

http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Buds-Less-Grow-Than/dp/0932551874

Interestingly, if you look into it, opium is and was a much safer substance than the prescription opiates that doctors prescribe and patients overdose on today. A great book on the history of opium is Opium Reality's Dark Dream

Abusing drugs is bad, prohibition is worse.

Did they go over the origins and history of AA at the beginning of every meeting too?

https://www.amazon.com/The-Sober-Truth-Debunking-Programs/dp/0807033154

I can't decide if I like that cover or the one Amazon shows

edit: I guess the UK version has the sparkly gradient. DAMMIT

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0380004232/ref=tmm_mmp_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&sr=&qid=

yeah, the cost of a dna read is $1000 but the retail price is still higher, but not for much longer.
i go to jalr.org to line up the studies i do. they pay $2k to $5k and last a couple weeks or a month. i want to recruit a cadre of lab rats willing to have their dna readin exchange for getting a smaller payment for that study , then we would be available for more studies. so far big pharma doesn't know what to do with a subjects full dna; they are at most only testing one or two genes
but they more than anybody else have the budgets and economy of scale to start doing it sooner than most anybody else will.

i think the irb's will be very uncomfortable with the idea at first.