Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther...
by dwaltrip on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:28PM
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Meditation also affects the activity of the default mode network. This is a fundamental network that plays a huge role is much of our brain's activities, so saying 2 different things have an affect on the network doesn't mean that those impacts are necessarily similar.
Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther...
by luckydata on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:31PM
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that's pretty much it, except if you're on LSD at some point it will stop.
Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther...
by perl4ever on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:43PM
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It's pretty common to have one or two episodes of psychosis and then not again. Selection bias and all that. Anyone that doesn't have a severe chronic problem, you're not going to be aware of, but it's reasonable to assume there are more mild cases than severe cases of almost any condition. For that matter, it's a definitional issue - people can appear crazy temporarily for almost infinite reasons, and if it doesn't reoccur, even doctors aren't going to call it schizophrenia. You go into a hospital appearing to be stark raving mad, they are going to test you for drugs and call it "schizophreniform" if they can't find any.
That's interesting, but it sounds like a plausible description of how schizophrenia works too, maybe even one that I've read before, and yet my impression is that "natural" psychosis is different.