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Frequently Asked Questions

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General Precognition

Q: What is precognition?

“Precognition is the apparent ability to predict unexpected future events, and precognitive dreams are among the most commonly reported seemingly paranormal experiences. Typically, in a precognitive experience, a person has some kind of impression, and later that is followed by an event that seems to confirm or match the earlier impression.” – Caroline Watt, University of Edinburgh

The subconscious mind is a powerful force that’s capable of accessing knowledge a person will acquire in the future. Often it’s directly related to some rewarding or troubling learning experience. It functions in the same way we retrieve memories from the past and is relative to our own future experience. Sometimes seeing the future will allow you to change it. Psychical researchers estimate that one-third to one-half of all precognitive experiences may provide useful information that can help avert disasters.

Precognition can consist of chaotic moments where the state of something changes or emits a lot of energy or heat. Commonly reported examples of this are plane crashes, explosions, near death experiences and death. Our subconscious tries to help us survive by any means necessary and places extra importance on these moments. Similar to the morbid curiosity we get when we see a car crash, it all goes into the calculations in our brain to try and prevent that from happening to us. Individuals can respond to future upheavals, even near misses or close calls. We must recall the things that reward and frighten us in order to survive and succeed, so it makes sense that precognition focuses on those surprises.

Being able to access the future subconsciously fits well with theories on relativity, block universe, quantum physics and determinism. Skeptics of precognition have no basis to reject it given how statistically strong the data is supporting it. Even without experiencing it firsthand, the data provided by the most reputable and replicable studies has proven precognition is a natural (albeit evasive) function of the mind. It’s not a supernatural or paranormal ability related to aliens, religion, or telepathy, but those topics open people’s minds up to the idea of precognition which, interestingly enough, has been proven to help trigger it.

Q: What types of precognition are most common?

A: Precognition occurs most often (60 percent to 70 percent) in dreams. It may also occur spontaneously in waking visions, auditory hallucinations, flashing thoughts entering the mind, and the sense of “knowing.” (source: Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience, New York: HarperCollins, 1991, pp. 463-464)

Q: What causes precognition?

A: The top 3 contributors to precognitive dreams appear to be: Economic (rent, work, societal), Health (hormones, illnesses, stress) and Media (news, movies, shows).

Most people experience their first memorable precognitive dream during puberty but can recall having déjà vu throughout their childhood. Strong emotions tend to have a significant influence on what our precognition shows us. It can come from our own direct experiences as well as first- and third- person recreations of things we read in books or see in shows and movies.

Currently we can spot the areas in the brain where precognition occurs and it correlates with the areas responsible for past/future event construction and information retrieval. We’ve also been able to witness neurons charging up a fifth of a second before a conscious decision is made.

Some people are more likely to experience precognition for different reasons. There’s a known link between precognition and personality disorders, mood disorders, addictions, unresolved feelings, near death experiences and past trauma, as well as an openness to seemingly ‘mystical’ ideas, perceived self-influence over personal luckiness, and frequently updating one’s beliefs.

There have also been many instances where precognition proves to be a social-orienting function. For example, you can dream of a friend you haven’t spoken to in a long time and when you go to talk to them you find out they got into an accident at that same moment you dreamed of them. Another example is when a precognitive dream contains multiple random elements surrounding a person and when following up with them the other parts of the dream show up; it’s like a self-fulfilling interaction that never would’ve happened otherwise.

Q: What can I do to become more precognitive?

A: Meditation has proven to trigger precognition although it happens most when we’re relaxed and stressed at the same time. We’re most successful at sleep precognition because our mind is at rest and our consciousness isn’t in control. It’s also been recommended to de-stress your day-to-day and try to have a healthy lifestyle, although it can happen regardless.

Another way of practicing could be with shuffling a deck of cards, guessing the card you’ll flip over but taking a rest in between each card. Our discord server has several channels where you can practice guessing with different bots.

Precognitive knowledge also may be induced through trance, channeling, mediumship, and divination. Lastly, any methods used for remote viewing can be used to sense the future.

Q: Why do I feel really weird during déjà moments?

A: Some people have reported experiencing things like anxiety, panic attacks, nausea, and even seizures during déjà moments. Sometimes this can mean something serious like epilepsy or a brain tumor. If this has happened to you or you’re concerned it might, you should contact a therapist, counselor or doctor about your situation (respectively).

Q: What are some typical times between a precognitive experience and the actual event?

A: Precognition tends to happen immediately after waking or later that day. However there are many reports of it happening days, weeks, months, years, and decades later. There seems to be no consistency except for the time of year.

Usually the majority of precognitive experiences happen within a forty-eight hour period prior to the future event, most often it is within twenty-four hours.

Q: Does the time of year influence precognition?

A: Experiments by JW Dunne prove that events seen during precognition tend to happen around the same time of year, so for example a vivid dream in October that seems precognitive has a strong chance of happening that month or the next October.

Q: How can I make my precognition last longer?

A: When experiencing a precognitive moment don’t analyze what you’re sensing and instead focus on receiving only. This gets rid of the mental clutter that we can often bring. It’s something everyone is capable of and by knowing this you also eliminate the nervousness often associated with seeing future events.

Precognitive Dreams

Q: How do I know if my dream was precognitive?

A: Distinguishing between precognitive dreams and regular ones can be difficult, but it is important to look for personal symbolism in dreams and eliminate other possibilities. After experiencing a precognitive dream in real life, individuals can rate the odds of it being a coincidence on a scale of 1 to 10. A rating of 1 indicates pure coincidence, while a rating of 10 implies strong evidence for precognition.

Q: What are the different types of precognitive dreams?

A: Symbolic precognitive dreams replace important details with meaningful or random elements, yet still convey information from the future. Third-person precognitive dreams can contain both symbolic and literal information, such as dreaming of an accident and seeing it on the news the next day. Probabilistic precognitive dreams show future information, but may be inaccurate due to the choices a person makes from the moment the dream occurs. Literal and lucid precognitive dreams allow us to observe and interact with future elements in our dreams.

Q: Why are my precognitive dreams so mundane?

A: Without training your precognition, you’re most likely to catch random mundane moments from your future. If you train your ability then you can sometimes control what you see. Most people’s first experience with precognition is a trivial moment, like walking a dog or folding laundry.

Q: How can I dream about specific future events?

A: Lucid dreaming can help individuals become more precognitive by becoming aware of the dream state and actively participating in the dream. Techniques for achieving lucidity include setting an intention before sleep and practicing pre-sleep and post-waking routines.

The Wake-Back-To-Bed technique is a recommended technique for accessing precognitive knowledge. It involves waking up after a few hours of sleep and going back to sleep with the intention of becoming lucid in a dream. Once lucid, individuals can ask a “spirit guide”-like dream character about future events or other precognitive information.

To learn more: visit the Do It Yourself section of Precog 101

Q: What’s the difference between Déjà Vu and Déjà Rêvé?

A: Past precognitive memories, or premories, can resurface in three common ways. The first is déjà vu, which is a feeling of familiarity with the present moment. The second is déjà rêvé, which is the memory of a dream connected to the present moment. The third is residual memory, which is the activation of dream content through certain triggers. Studies have shown that déjà rêvé is the most common of these experiences.

To learn more: visit the Déjà Experiences section of Precog 101

Q: I’ve been dreaming of getting back together with my ex, does that mean it will happen?

A: Just as in regular dream interpretation these dreams tend to be symbolic or influenced by observations your subconscious mind can work with. In most cases this type of dream could mean closure is needed to move on from the relationship.

Q: I had a sudden thought, dream, vision, or voice, how do I know if it was precognitive?

Criteria have been proposed to define a “precognitive” thought, dream, vision, or voice:

  • It should be recounted or recorded prior to its fulfillment, such as being written down or described to someone before it comes true.
  • Sufficient details should be included to make chance coincidence unlikely.
  • The possibility of inference from existing knowledge must be ruled out, meaning it must refer to an unexpected or unpredictable event.
  • Self-fulfilling prophecies must be eliminated, ensuring that one cannot make it come true through personal actions afterward.

Death and NDE

Q: I dreamt of dying, does that mean I’ll die?

A: One rarely perceives one’s own death; perhaps one explanation is the trauma it too great for the ego to accept. Many people dream of their death and then find out it was actually a Near Death Experience they’ll come to experience later in life. Others report their death symbolizing a rebirth in their lives.

Some notable exceptions do exist: Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his own death six weeks before his assassination. However, his dream was not of being shot and dying, but of being an observer after the fact. American presidents John Garfield and William McKinley also experienced foreknowledge of their deaths.

Q: I dreamt of someone hurt, ill or dying; is there anything I can do to stop it?

A: If you dreamt of someone being hurt, ill, or dying, it’s important to remember that dreams are often symbolic and may not always reflect literal events. While you may feel concerned, it’s unlikely that your dream can directly influence the outcome. However, if you’re genuinely worried, it’s best to offer support and care to the person in question. Remember, dreams can provide insight and preparation for life’s challenges, helping us navigate them with greater understanding.

Q: I’ve dreamt of end-of-the-world situations, are they going to happen?

A: Just as in regular dream interpretation these dreams tend to be either symbolic or influenced by things like media, our health, or economic situation. Rarely they sync up with big disasters in the world, but occasionally those types of Possible Future Events are actually foreseen. Sharing information you get from vivid precognitive experiences has been known to lessen the anxiety, depression and guilt that is often attributed with such occurrences.

Q: My precognitive experiences tend to be about someone else being in an accident of some kind, sometimes its almost like I sensed it as it happened and other times I find out in a bizarre manner. What could this be about?

A: Precognition is like a little nudge that helps us make choices based on a gut feeling about important things and cool encounters. It’s almost like a social compass, guiding intuitive folks to reach out to friends and find out surprising stuff, like learning about a friend’s accident. In cultures that value intuition, life can feel super synchronized and even telepathic. It’s like our destinies are all connected, with our long-term selves and the influence of precognition weaving everything together.

Q: Why is my precognition always about something sort of jarring?

A: Severe emotional shock seems to be a major factor in precognition. By a ratio of four-to-one, most concern unhappy events, such as death and dying, illness, accidents, and natural disasters. Intimacy is also a major factor, 80 to 85 percent of such experiences involve a spouse, family member or friend with whom the individual has close emotional ties. The remainder involves casual acquaintances and strangers, most of whom are victims in major disasters such as airplane crashes or earthquakes.

Q: Why are there so many premonitions of plane crashes and how would you know if it corresponds to an actual plane crash?

Precognition tends to focus on chaotic moments of significant change, like crashes and death. Our subconscious prioritizes these events for survival. It motivates us to be future-oriented, showing rewarding, mundane, or survival-related glimpses. However, proving average precognitive dreams or premonitions, especially about plane crashes, is challenging due to frequent coincidences. Vivid, accurate, and detailed information is necessary to confirm a valid precognitive experience.

You might be interested in reading about Elizabeth Krohn in the section of Precog 101 called Verified Claims. She emailed herself vivid information of near-future plane crashes and was extremely accurate.

Advanced Precognition

Q: Can I use precognition to change the future?

A: Popular theory holds that precognition is a glimpse of a possible future that is based upon present conditions and existing information, and which may be altered depending upon acts of free will. Free will can change the perceived future, as seen in the many incidents of individuals saving their lives and escaping disasters by changing their previously formed plans, based on precognitive information. Psychical researchers estimate that one-third to one-half of all precognitive experiences may provide useful information that can help avert disasters.

Sometimes seeing the future will allow you to change it, but other times it’s some uncontrollable or external force that stops us. For example, it’s hard to stop a plane crash unless you’re in a situation where you can.

Q: If dreams give me a sense of present and future outcomes, does that mean that life is fated? What makes the idea of free will?

A: During an AMA with author Eric Wargo in 2021 he offered this insight:

We absolutely have free will in that we are agents co-creating our future along with all the other chains of causation. We are active participants in the world and the future depends on what we do now–we participate in changing the present into the future. But in hindsight, our freely willed actions are part of the block universe and set in stone. Those choices are obviously unalterable, and if we re-ran cosmic history from the beginning, you’d find yourself making the exact same choice at every given time point. So, does that mean there is free will or there isn’t?

I think “free will” is useless conceptual baggage — stop worrying about it, and your actions will feel more free and you’ll be happier.

Q: Will drugs affect my precognition?

A: Certain drugs can enhance a person’s existing precognition, but its unique to each person and what their reaction is to the drug. People have reported vivid precognitive experiences under the influence of prescription drugs, acid, salvia and cannabis.

Q: What does precognition tell us about reality?

A: Precognition is a process that evades understanding especially when confronting the ideas of free-will or determinism. It’s best to think of the present like a dynamic equation that gets plugged into a static future.

Precognition is not about seeing the future rather it is about participating in a creative process that is creating the future. Something we all unconsciously do but very few make the logical leap into that circuit to come full recursion to see this in action through their own relationship with it.” – Ian Wilson [source]

Q: How many positive precogs do you know of that do community service work like working with police or creating meetups?

A: During an AMA in January 2019 Dr. Julia Mossbridge gave this answer:

I know about 12 and know of about 50. Partly because of the taboo around precognition, people tend to hide in the shadows.

Q: What do you think the ideal physical, emotional and mental states are for precognition?

A: During an AMA in January 2019 Dr. Julia Mossbridge gave this answer:

From empirical results, we know that precognition performance in the lab is better: in people who believe in precognition, in extroverts, in people who are “open to experience” and in those who meditate. Different individuals will have different “best states” — a lot of research needs to be done in this area. I use meditation, visualization, what I call the “higher-self handshake” (more in Premonition Code book) and sometimes alpha or theta binaural beats.

Q: Do you have any advice for a budding psychologist hoping to pursue this field academically?

A: During an AMA in June 2021 Dr. Julia Mossbridge gave this answer:

  1. Remember that you’re part of a generation that doesn’t hold as many taboos about this stuff as was the case for your elders. So you have dual work here — first, opening your elders’ minds with your research, and second, allowing your elders to teach you what they know. Both must be balanced and it’s good to be conscious of that.
  2. Go to the best academic institution that will let you in, but above the institution, find a person you want to work with. There are folks at almost every tier 1 research institution who are interested in this stuff. You can use LinkedIn to find the folks at each place you’re seriously considering and see what their interests are. If they aren’t on linkedIn they are likely not as interested in connecting, which is an important sign. But not a dealbreaker!
  3. Find a particular question that you’d like to answer — many students applying to grad programs these days are interested in consciousness — for instance, the consciousness discussion group at Kings University College is growing (Imants Baruss, a co-author of mine runs it). So if you actually know your specific interest within consciousness, that’ll help! Meditation, states of perception, consciousness — all are huge fields. So what question is it worth sweating and struggling over to get an answer?
  4. Consider joining a student-friendly organization like the Society for Scientific Exploration or AAPS. They can help support you as you make decisions about researching still-controversial ideas.
  5. Keep your heart close by. Notice if an academic program feels good on a kindness level. Notice if you feel strong or weak in the presence of others — and I mean real strength — not aggression.
Q: Why do some precognition experiments include random people in normal states of mind guessing random things from the future instead of people who claim to have precognition dreaming of something more meaningful to them?

A: During an AMA with author Eric Wargo in 2021 he answered:

Most parapsychology experiments are shooting in the dark, because they lack a coherent theory of the phenomenon.

An added trouble with studying dreams, however (and other altered states too), is that the vast majority of precognitive dreams connect to the later experience associatively/symbolically. So unless the experimenter is sympathetic with Freudian approaches, they’ll miss 95% of precognitive material.

This is why I so strongly advocate a “return to Freud” in my books — he actually provided a roadmap for the study of precognition, totally unknowingly. He didn’t believe in precognition but he precognized the most significant event in his later life in the dream that made him famous — his story is incredible.

Q: Is it possible you can predict the price of btc for Friday? Also how do you see the prices? Like do you look at a chart and try and see into the future? Or does a ticker symbol come to your head followed by a price?

A: During an AMA in June 2021 The Precog Trading Group gave this answer:

Yes it is. I would say you might not be asking the right question though. When Friday? Are you looking to know if it will be higher or lower than at another point in time? So everything is really in the tasking. You have to be very specific. “How do you see the prices?… ticker symbol come to your head…?” I think most will agree that numbers are very difficult to “see”. Numbers are very analytical. Remote viewing is very much non analytical. Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) has become a very popular way to trick the system and still get the answer. You could ask the question something like this “will the price of btc on Friday June 18, 2021at noon pacific time be higher or lower than the price btc was on Thursday June 17, 2021 at noon pacific time?”. Here’s a great explanation of ARV in a discussion with Russell Targ and Jeffrey Mishlove.

In our Precognitive Trading Group we are not using ARV because sometimes we mix up the data from the photos and describe components of both photos. We have been more successful using a more direct remote viewing technique where we don’t “associate” a photo but view the result directly. For myself, I prepare by spending some time in meditation then I write down the random number assigned and I trace the number carefully knowing I will see that number again tied with the results… what will that number be associated with? I read the task.. “higher or lower”… I close my eyes and in my mind’s eye the answer materializes, usually in the form of a chart with a clear indicator of being higher or lower.

Q: When a precognition or prediction turns out to be incorrect, why do you suspect that is?

A: During an AMA in June 2021 Dr. Julia Mossbridge offered this opinion:

There are so many potential reasons! If we assume the universe is impersonal and there’s just information flying around, then it becomes a Shannon information problem (great paper here). In that case the receiver would be some aspect or aspects of a precog and the sender would be some aspect or aspects of the source of a signal (could be the event in the universe, the event in a simulated model of the future universe, an event in the receiver’s future conscious or subconscious, etc.).

So some of the factors in accuracy would include: receiver reliability (how often is the receiver able to receive anything?), signal-to-noise ratio of the receiver’s processing methods, signal-to-noise ratio of the emitter’s (source’s) sending methods, sender reliability (how often is the send anything?), ability of receiver to interpret the meaning of the signal (even if the signal 100% accurately reflects what was sent, if the interpretation is bad it’s useless), ability of sender to correctly encode meaning into the signal (even if the sender 100% accurately sends a signal, if it has no meaning it is useless), and the ability of the sender and receiver to share the same meaning code.

And that’s just in a universe of information! What about a personal universe where your intention matters? This is likely to be much closer to what have. So now you have all the factors above, plus the intention of the receiver, sender, and every other intention-producing aspect of the universe. As a result, in this model you might get a perfectly accurate signal that you interpret perfectly accurately but it is for a different problem that someone else unknown to you would like to have you solve (a version of blind re-tasking). So you are wrong — for your intention. But you are right for someone else’s.

Q: How do you become an “RV professional”?

A: During an AMA in June 2021 The Precog Trading Group gave this answer:

One way is creating own small business and offer RV services and get clients, other way is to join as remote viewer to existing projects or groups who could pay you.

And one of the Positive Precogs said this:

I think that depends on the type of professional viewing. A year isn’t long in the scheme of things, but everyone is different. I’d check out APP and try to become part of their program, if that’s the kind of viewing you’re interested in.

Personally I think the best way to test money in professional viewing is to put money where the mouth is. If unwilling to lose own money (within appropriate risk managed approach), then other people’s probably shouldn’t be on the table.

Practicing ethics and parsing project possibilities are additional skills worth taking time to develop, in addition to remote viewing.

Q: Have you written about or considered a Minkowski block universe in the context of a multiverse or is this just an unnecessary abstraction and redundancy?

A: During an AMA with author Eric Wargo in 2021, he offered this insight:

I’m not a fan of ‘multiverse’, and that goes for variants like “many worlds.” We can explain this stuff within a single self-consistent universe and timeline. Multiverse theories become incoherent (not to mention totally untestable) very quickly, and in the end are not as satisfying. Kids, don’t waste your time with many worlds, multiverses, Mandela Effects, and the rest!

Q: The near-death experience seems to be a common human experience and sometimes I have dreams that seem like they’re from future or past timelines. Do you think it possible that humans are receiving information from future incarnations of their electromagnetic (placeholder for the discovery of the materiality of consciousness…) selves?

A: During an AMA with author Eric Wargo in 2021, he offered this insight:

I’m an unapologetic “materialist” in that I think precognition is a brain-based phenomenon and brings information about experiences during the lifespan. That doesn’t negate spiritual possibilities — it just means precognition isn’t evidence for them, in my opinion.

Personally, on NDEs, when it comes to veridical information gained during NDEs, I think researchers are ignoring the precognition possibility and it needs to be investigated before people should assume they are evidence of nonlocal consciousness, afterlife, etc. (There’s a lot of bad-faith head-in-the-sand behavior among people who study these things, unfortunately.)

Q: If we are always inhabiting virtual worlds that don’t affect our physical bodies in 3D time and space it would seem that a lot of our precognitive faculties are reaching out and grabbing information from virtual experiences in the future. Do you think that media experiences which elicit terror or fear or a sense of survival from harrowing experiences could potentially be exhausting our natural inborn precognitive abilities?

A: During an AMA with author Eric Wargo in 2021, he offered this insight:

Great question about the media. I’d never thought of its ability to erode our precognitive ability. I think more that it just confounds it — it helps make our imaginations rich (not necessarily a bad thing) — but indeed it is mostly our imaginations that we are precognizing … so yes, it makes the modern world very complicated, that’s for sure.

This is a great point to raise, partly because people studying the paranormal avoid thinking about the imagination, as though it always means “that’s just your imagination.” No it doesn’t, but until we understand how truly powerful the imagination is as an internal CGI studio, we’re going to misinterpret a lot of paranormal experiences that are stimulating/activating our imagination.

Q: Ingo Swann, aside from believing that one could receive impressions from the future and then could act on them in order to change the future outcome, also wrote about telepathy. Could the two be related?

A: During an AMA with author Eric Wargo in 2021, he offered this insight:

As far as telepathy, my “official” viewpoint is that it is misrecognized precognition. Until relatively recently, people have not had the conceptual tools to even really consider what that means, and it is incredibly counter-intuitive even if you do have the tools. So I don’t blame people like Swann for framing it as telepathy … but I don’t think that’s what is/was going on.

He also answered a similar question, stating:

Information refluxing from our future always “feels” like it comes from outside us, hence people attribute it to telepathy, clairvoyance, synchronicity, the spirit world — whatever fits your beliefs — but very often there are “tracers” revealing that it was the later point of contact with the other person that was the real source of the information. If you have a dream your mother was in an accident, you can’t find out it was true until you call her, etc.

Q: Do precognitive experiences have meaning behind them or are they random?

A: During an AMA with author Eric Wargo in 2021 he answered:

The messages in precognitive experiences are from our future selves. The “meaning” is your own life, as in, your biography.

People are so used to looking for meaning outside themselves, in systems created by other people, that they forget to look at their own unfolding story and how incredibly rich and complex it is. This is what precognitive dreamwork and precognitive lifework connects us to, in my opinion.

Q: I used to have dreams about random events in the future…but I don’t anymore. Why?

Precognitive dreams come and go; you’re probably just going through a dry spell. Sometimes caffeine and stress can make them stop, but other things have also been known to toggle precognition like alcohol, cannabis, and antidepressants. If you feel you don’t need to make any changes to your lifestyle than consider paying more attention to precognition via dream journals or meditation, and also consider practicing lucid dreaming or remote viewing.

Q: Why are my visions always negative?

The best answer I’ve seen to this so far was in February 2022:

Because the human mind is wired to detect threats, so if there’s something coming up that’s negative, your attention will go there quicker than something positive.

I have a trauma history and had a tendency to the negative. Worked on the trauma, dialed back the hypervigilance, now other stuff can get through. I’d recommend looking at your history, your stress level daily, and seeing where you can start refocusing yourself. Do you meditate? Do you exercise daily? Walk in nature. Get yourself grounded. Turn off the news. Get away from the default subs.

Q: How would a psychologist react to me talking about precognition?

The following comment from February 2022 should prove helpful:

You gotta find the right psychologist. I’m working with a somatic trauma therapist who had something on her CV about “Trillium Awakening” so she seemed like she might be OK with a certain amount of woo off the bat (I still don’t know what Trillium Awakening really is, but it seems pretty esoteric lol). After I’d had a few sessions with her I’d felt her out enough and we could start to talk about the weirdness, and I was right, she’s fine with it. My previous psychologist, who I saw for 10 years, did talk-only therapy and whenever I strayed too far into psi or synchronicity type stuff she’d get this look on her face, and I knew she’d be trying to get me back on pills lol. Left her for my new one in 2018, no regrets.

I suspect if you just probe someone’s CV a little you can figure out if they might be a good match. If they’re Jungian at all that’s probably also a plus (though not definitively). I think that people who do somatics, and people who do straight up body work are quite literally more “grounded” in being able to deal with this stuff in a non medicated fashion. Good luck! There’s support out there, you just gotta find it.