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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156238403321

Autore

Waldman Ayelet

Titolo

A Really Good Day : How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2017

Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-451-49410-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Classificazione

BIO026000MED102000PSY020000

Disciplina

615.7883

Soggetti

People with bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder - Treatment

Depressed persons - New York

Hallucinogenic drugs - Therapeutic use

Bipolar disorder

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

MEDICAL / Mental Health

PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--

"In an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, Ayelet Waldman undertook a very private experiment, ingesting 10 micrograms of LSD every three days for a month. This is the story--by turns revealing, courageous, fascinating and funny--of her quietly psychedelic spring, her quest to understand one of our most feared drugs, and her search for a really good day"--