Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
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#2Old news is news I see
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#3I’m going to cluster HN news stories by topic and then write a script to filter the same content out.
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#4It seems the design of this study is questionable.
Since they couldn't blind the psylocybin group from the effect, they gave 1mg daily to the SSRI group.
Basically it's a study that compares psylocybin with SSRI + psylocybin micro dosing.
They claim that the micro dose don't have an effect, but there is not a large body of evidence to support that claim.
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#5Old news is news I see
This 'news' is scheduled 'blogspam', this article links to prev. article with exactly the same premise and that posted exactly 1 month earlier (15 april, 15 march), while both based on ~2018 research. Moving on.
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#7I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind's harddrive had been defragmented.
Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.
She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.
To say it's frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.
I'm convinced we'll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.
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#8I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind's harddrive had been defragmented. Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the ma…
I know a lot of people whose minds were ruined by psychedelics. It’s something you will see when you spend time in those communities. It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it’s common.
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#9I don’t want to live in a world where the solution to depression (caused by governments, politicians, or general existence in the modern capitalist world) is a drug. Not a good idea.
Instead, figure out why depression has increased so dramatically in the last ~century and address that.
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#10I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind's harddrive had been defragmented. Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the ma…
I know a lot of people whose minds were ruined by psychedelics. It’s something you will see when you spend time in those communities. It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it’s common.
I get it - a drug is a drug - and like all drugs I am not saying that psychedelics are a cure all for all people.
What I am saying is that it is depressing that we are only just seeing reports from formal sources that psychedelics could be useful for some people.