I tried MDMA many years ago. It gave me a different perspective of the world: one of wonder and extreme beauty. I don't carry it with me in daily life, but it's very easy for me to turn that perspective on at will, and at times when I come across extreme ugliness or extreme beauty, I do turn on that perspective. It's almost a spiritual thing, where you see with amazement that this world even exists as organized chaos despite all the random collisions of atoms in the universe.

Like most things with the mind, it's what you put into it. I wouldn't expect a magic pill to take that just fixes everything. I found this part of the article quite shocking:

> "I walked out of that office feeling hopelessly depressed," he said. "That was a real turning point. I realized for the first time that, if I was going to overcome my depression, it would have to be self-driven."

Uhh, ya it's going to have to be self-driven. If you're expecting to just take a pill and do no actual work yourself, then you're totally unrealistic about taking control of your own mind and life. This goes for any area of life, weight, depression, happiness, etc. That culture/pharma/whomever sells this idea of an easy out to Americans is quite sad.