Alterations in glutamate and the experience of ego dissolution with psilocybin

Re:Alterations in glutamate and the experience of ego dissol... by PragmaticPulp on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:59AM (#23338809)

> If you used to be on SSRIs and they worked, then LSD doesn't sound like a good match

Do you have any evidence at all to support this claim?

LSD isn't inherently an anti-depressant. The research around psychedelics involves many sessions of intense therapy with LSD used in some sessions to help facilitate the therapy.

Researchers aren't just dosing people with psychedelics and walking away. The drug itself isn't doing the heavy lifting of addressing the problems.

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Re:Alterations in glutamate and the experience of ego dissol... by raducu on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:39PM (#23339353)

I have absolutely no evidence, just my reasoning that if you are depressed and SSRIs work, there must be something wrong with those serotonin networks and SSRIs working mean some balance was restored; LSD will just blast the same networks.

I was not under the impression that OP did LSD in a therapeutical setting.

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