Adventures Through The Mind Podcast

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Ed Prideaux is a UK-based writer and journalist who has lived with the symptoms of HPPD since he was a teenager. An enthusiast of psychedelic experience and its clinical promise, Prideaux seeks to bridge HPPD patient groups with the psychedelic community through advocacy for the Perception Restoration Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) charity that raises awareness and funds for studies into HPPD and Visual Snow Syndrome. Prideaux has written about psychedelics for the BBC, VICE, and The Independent, and published pieces on music, history and psychology for publications like The Guardian, The Spectator, The Quietus, The Financial Times, and others.

Prideaux joins us to discuss what HPPD is, its symptoms, its history, its association with other mental health conditions, how widespread it seems to be, and how it isn’t necessarily a negative experience.

We also speak of psychedelic flashbacks–what they are and what they are not; the role of memory, trauma, and neuroplasticity in HPPD; the pathologizing of neurodiversity; and each of our personal experiences of the condition.