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Suffering from a mood disorder (PMDD) and exhausting her options, writer Ayelet Waldman tries microdosing. A Really Good Day is part comedic mental health memoir, part account of her 30-day experiment taking tiny, subperceptual amounts of LSD, and part research into the history, risks & rewards, and future of psychedelics. Waldman is funny, candid, and self-aware. This is a frank and accessible introduction to the idea of psychedelics as medicine.

After Michael Pollan‘s book How To Change Your Mind got me interested in the topic I‘ve been reading more books about the emerging field of psychedelics as medicine. I found Waldman‘s blend of memoir and journalism to be especially readable. Her personal storytelling is highly relatable for anyone prone to anxiety, & her reporting on the sad futility of the drug war is especially compelling. She reads the audiobook herself & is a great narrator.

This is deep insight into one woman‘s life. She‘s lives with a few mental health diagnoses, struggles with chronic pain and nothing helps. In desperation, she tries tiny doses of LSD for 30 days. The writing is engaging. But I struggled with the evident and overwhelming privilege. If not for her place on the socio-economic spectrum, she‘d be in jail.

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Waldman had a reliable strategy for dealing with her hormonal mood changes until peri-menopause. After doing some research, she hit upon microdosing LSD. She kept to a strict schedule and amount. 20 mcg every third day. As you follow her journey, she discusses the history of psychedelics, the state of current research, and harm reduction strategies for both legal and illegal substances. A fascinating journey! #audiobook

Enjoying this #audiobook and some over easy eggs (burned the butter a bit 😉) before bed. I feel much less stressed tonight because I‘m hoping to get the next four days off from major issues. 🤞🏻🤞🏻 excited to enjoy #jolabokaflod when I get up. Merry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate! 🎄

#MayMadness #DiscussionThursday

What was your favourite book of May?

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Okay guys! It‘s the last week of May! Show us a stack of what you hope you read before the month is up!

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Well folks, it‘s the final week of #MayMadness, so we thought we‘d wrap it up with “Books From Your Shelf”, so you can tackle that #MountTBR 📚

Happy reading everyone! It‘s been a brilliant and wild ride this past month. 💙🧡❤️

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May is “Get caught reading” month, & we are celebrating Banned books this week. So for this weeks #WeeklyChallenge we have devised a way to celebrate both.

Take a selfie or have somebody take a picture of you reading a #BannedBook. Then post it and tag us! Get creative and have fun with it, but most of all get caught reading! 😍🤓🤩🤪

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Some of you guys have already shared some stacks of your owned #BannedBooks, but we‘d like to see a stack or a list of which #BannedBooks you‘re hoping to read this week! 📚

Are there any books that have been hanging out in #MountTBR for too long? Maybe this is the week to finally read them! 🤗

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