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Originally Posted by HazelGirl
I disagree with your assumptions. I'm not you, but it's almost never true that an illegal substance makes therapy easier. Most often, it blocks your emotions and changes how you react and respond. It's probably making therapy less effective, even though you don't know it or can't see it at the moment.
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It's about as true as it is to take legally prescribed drugs for the same reason.
People take meds prescribed by psychiatrists and other doctors to help make therapy tolerable. Just because it might not be described legally, doesn't necessarily make it much different than taking an SSRI to help make therapy more tolerable.
Taking antipsychotics and other types of drugs also blunt emotions, and changes how you react and respond.
I don't advocate for taking illegal drugs, but it's misleading to conclude that illegal drugs are bad for therapy w/o including that legally prescribed drugs can have the same effect.
It's also potentially misleading to assume they have a bad effect on therapy at all, when legal drugs are prescribed for the exact same reasons--to make therapy easier.