Word: unstitch
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...habits - Simpsons reruns after work, burritos from the same place every night, Sunday mornings in bed with the newspaper - feel too feeble for your emboldened new self. Or, as Wood writes - rather poetically for a marketing professor - "the familiar threads of everyday life stitch our habits into place." Unstitch the threads, and you undo the habits...
...half-century later, scientists hope to unstitch psychedelic research from their forebears' excesses. Even as the Clinical Psychiatry paper trumpets psilocybin's potential for "powerful insights," it also urges caution. The paper suggests psilocybin only for severe OCD patients who have failed standard therapies and, as a last resort, may face brain surgery. Similarly, subjects can't take part in the Ecstasy trials unless their illness has continued after ordinary treatment...
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