Erin Carpenter, LCSW

@MaggieB_TV @DenverChannel Any restrictions on golf courses? Or the roughly 15 data centers that are connected to the Denver Water system (per 9News)?

NEW: Denver Water Board has unanimously approved a Stage 1 Drought Declaration. What this means: -Lawn watering limited to two days per week (instead of three) -Wait until mid to late May to begin outdoor watering -Restaurants can only serve water upon request @DenverChannel

@Docstockk @unherd Interesting article. The concept of Autism has become so broad and varied it ceases to have internal logic. I think we've pathologized personality traits in order to avoid acceptance of them (especially in women with more 'masculine' traits.

The feminisation of autism is a failed experiment, and the people it hurts most are a) actually autistic people b) the girls themselves. I wrote about it for @unherd unherd.com/2026/03/the-fe…

@RCarhartHarris Are you going to be on The Tonight Show? Exciting.

Editor, author, agent, publishing house, talk show host.

@JHPsychedelics Interesting! I wonder how psilocybin might ameliorate similar conditions such as long Covid, Chronic Fatigue/MCE, etc. These conditions are not well understood and treatment options are limited.

New pilot study from Johns Hopkins finds psilocybin-assisted treatment was associated with significant and sustained benefits in post-treatment Lyme disease, including improved mood, fatigue, sleep, pain, and quality of life for up to 6 months. More research is needed to confirm. Read more below👇

@meghan_daum No other developed country is like this. We need to have a difficult conversation about mandated substance abuse and mental illness treatment. We poured money into homelessness via nonprofits rather than building world-class hospitals for the most vulnerable.

As bad as New York is, west coast cities are exponentially worse. I was just out for a walk and a couple of meth heads fawned over my dog and then introduced me to their sleeping baby in a carriage. They were so strung out I didn't even want them touching my dog. The baby looked angelic. This world is broken.

@BriannaWu I'm a ketamine therapist. I am glad it helped you. I notice that extremism can be connected to trauma or underdeveloped personality structure generally (i.e. rigidly identifying with an opinion or political 'tribe')

Two years ago, I decided to get serious about addressing my childhood trauma, and did a series of Ketamine treatments through a clinic in Massachusetts. It was extremely effective and changed my personality in fairly radical ways. One of the strangest is I barely get any pleasure from playing video games anymore. It also really changed the way I saw politics, moving it strongly to the center. I really wonder just how much of extremist politics is actually just trauma.

@BridgetPhetasy There's a market for an AI-free internet if someone will build it. Can we all just go back to MySpace?

Is there a bet on polymarket yet for how long before we have to shut down the internet because the agents got out of control and decided to blow up the world? I’m guessing we have 3 weeks.

@GovofCO @CNN It's so hard for families in Colorado when the state has the LOWEST mandated days of school per year (160). Kansas has the highest (184). Our kids get 2 whole months of less education than peers in other states and it shows. Please change this!

On @CNN, I explained how Colorado’s population is growing even as housing costs impact school enrollment.

@PaulAustin3w It's individualized, but we have a Psychiatric NP on our team that will do a med review and make a tapering plan. We aim for 2 weeks med-free before a journey. We always collaborate with the original prescriber as well.

@ErinCarpLCSW Agreed. We've seen a lot of funky stuff at our intensives at the overlap of psilocybin and GLP-1s. What protocol do you bring folks through for deprescribing?

30 million Americans take antidepressants. 50% of these individuals will want to try psychedelics over the next decade. Almost no one is talking about what happens when these two meet.

@PaulAustin3w Anecdotally, thus far around 10 clients at our clinic who got off SRRIs for psilocybin work have chosen not to resume SSRIs afterward. This won't be the case with everyone, but it is interesting.

@thebarrowpod @Docstockk There are dozens of us!

@ErinCarpLCSW @Docstockk Hey, someone stating their position in a lovely way & willing to engage the other side of an issue! Remember normal, good folk? Haha. ✨❤️

DO NOT GO GENTLE: THE CASE AGAINST ASSISTED DEATH will be out on April 2nd. Pre-orders welcomed!

@jessesingal Noiser history podcasts are great.

If you have a favorite history podcast that isn't already famous please let me know

@SnoozyWeiss Glad to see unironic earnestness again.

Long live the try-hards! thefp.com/p/timothee-cha…

@Psilocybin913 @Josh__Hardman The article reports it was in Costa Rica, but run by a US-based training program (they didn't name the program).

@Josh__Hardman Where was the training taking place?

New case report detailing a 71-year-old psychologist who underwent psychedelic therapy training that involved 3 psilocybin experiences. She was eventually admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit, against the advice of her psychedelic therapy trainers, the case report says.

@michaelshermer @TheFP @TheFIREorg @bariweiss Bari is such a great moderator, I hope this gets posted on youtube.

Thursday night in Austin I am debating this question: Does the West need a religious revival? @TheFP @TheFIREorg @bariweiss Here is Grok's answer: Whether the West needs a religious revival depends on what you think it’s missing—and there’s no consensus on that. It’s a question that splits people along lines of purpose, morality, and identity, so let’s break it down. On one side, you’ve got folks who say yes, it’s overdue. They argue the West’s drift toward secularism—kicking off with the Enlightenment and accelerating in the 20th century—has left a hole. Religion, especially Christianity, used to be the backbone of shared values: meaning, community, a sense of right and wrong. Without it, they claim, you get rising loneliness, moral confusion, and a culture obsessed with materialism. Look at stats—church attendance in Europe’s plummeted; in the U.S., “nones” (no religious affiliation) hit 29% by 2021, up from 16% in 2007. Some tie this to climbing anxiety or depression rates, like the 25% jump in U.S. adults reporting mental health struggles since the 1990s. The pitch is that a revival could reanchor people, rebuild trust, and counter what they see as a slide into nihilism. Flip it, and others say no, we’re fine—or better off. Secularism, they argue, freed the West from dogma, letting reason and science drive progress. Life expectancy’s up (38 years in 1850, 72 globally by 2019), literacy’s near-universal in Europe and North America, and rights—women’s, minorities’—expanded where religion once held them back. They point to Scandinavia: Denmark and Sweden rank among the least religious places yet score top marks on happiness and social trust. A revival, they warn, could drag us back to intolerance or tribalism—think witch hunts or holy wars. Why revive something that’s been outgrown? There’s a middle take too: maybe it’s not about religion itself but what it offered. Community’s fraying—think bowling alone, or how 1 in 4 Americans had no close friends to confide in by 2021, per surveys. Religion gave rituals, a moral compass, a bigger story. Secularism hasn’t fully replaced that. Some suggest a “revival” could be spiritual but not dogmatic—less about God, more about connection and purpose. Others say capitalism and tech (social media, AI) are the real gods now, and no revival can compete. Does the West need it? Data’s mixed, and history’s no oracle. Religious societies have thrived and crumbled; secular ones too. It’s less about need than want—what trade-offs people are willing to stomach. If you crave meaning and roots, revival might sound good. If you prize autonomy and progress, it might feel like a step back. The West’s been wrestling with this since Voltaire the Church and Nietzsche declared God dead. No sign it’s settled yet. What do you think the West’s missing? That’s where the answer hides.

@jamesfkalupson That makes sense. I also see some reductionist language around psychedelics as "just meds."

This is a great point. I phrased it this way because the majority of discourse I see related to psychedelics frames these substances merely as more efficacious replacements for SSRI's and completely ignores the role of person-centered psychotherapeutic interventions as part of the process.

Elephant in the room in psychedelic spaces is that there does in fact seem to be some sort of teleological force within the psyche that lends itself to resolving inner conflicts on its own. This force also seems to flourish in the presence of compassionate, attuned others

@the_mel_jar Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: All the colors.

Trying to code therapy modalities by color in my head. Totally subjective project. I feel like psychoanalysis would be blue, CBT would be red (or maybe that should be reversed?). Rogerian/humanistic would be green. IFS would be purple. EMDR would be yellow. DBT, black and white.