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No - the side that has a sense of humour.
and I've been to New York, Boston and Cancun you can't tell me there isn't binge drinking over there too. sap.
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and I've been to New York, Boston and Cancun you can't tell me there isn't binge drinking over there too. sap.
While I'm at it: http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/why-is-the-death-...
Edit: slur? WTF?
Here is anecdotal evidence for another interesting "drug": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786 In this study, N=small, but nevertheless, I think it is a very interesting article. Because the effects are so rapid, and magnesium supplementation is in general harmless, it is imho definitely a good idea to see if a magnesium deficiency is the cause of the disorder. Please take note that not all magnesium suppleme…
That being said, it would be pretty easy to investigate.
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I have only been moderately depressed, and I have no experience with this particular treatment... but I have had experiences that for a few hours swept away my anxiety, poor self-image, and so on. Metaphorically, it's been like opening a window for someone who's been stuck in a basement. Even without extreme euphoria—just a simple sense of contentment, like nothing is very wrong—that's such a revelation. A big part o…
> So however you find it, just a couple of hours of, say, having a conversation where you don't feel like the worst loser in the universe and the nadir of civilization, that just shows you something about life. It really would have been nice for me while i was a child. yes. i should have been given ketamine as a child. my depression was so bad for most of my life that i could count the days where i didn't feel depres…
While this is undeniably impressive and hopeful, it should be noted that these are short-term affects. The article mentions this: "So far, there is no evidence of addiction at the low dose in which infusions are delivered. Ketamine does, however, have one major limitation: Its relief is temporary. Clinical trials at NIMH have found that relapse usually occurs about a week after a single infusion." It then goes on to…
> First, when my depression gets really acute it basically means that I simply am unable to leave the house. You also would not really want to leave the house on Ketamine.
While this is undeniably impressive and hopeful, it should be noted that these are short-term affects. The article mentions this: "So far, there is no evidence of addiction at the low dose in which infusions are delivered. Ketamine does, however, have one major limitation: Its relief is temporary. Clinical trials at NIMH have found that relapse usually occurs about a week after a single infusion." It then goes on to…
But if you read till the end, they say that Hartman has to get booster shots every 6 months or so:
> These days, he says that his periods of remission between infusions often stretch to six months.
While this is undeniably impressive and hopeful, it should be noted that these are short-term affects. The article mentions this: "So far, there is no evidence of addiction at the low dose in which infusions are delivered. Ketamine does, however, have one major limitation: Its relief is temporary. Clinical trials at NIMH have found that relapse usually occurs about a week after a single infusion." It then goes on to…
> First, when my depression gets really acute it basically means that I simply am unable to leave the house. You also would not really want to leave the house on Ketamine.
Lookup "microdosing" if you're interested, a lot of people do it with dissociatives or psychedelics and the point of it is to a below threshold dosage and avoid the typical drug high.