Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst?

Re:Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst? by webmobdev on Saturday September 03, 2022 @03:22PM (#32705155)

This is exactly why anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications are prescribed - to help people realise what an "undepressed" state of mind feels like. Even with "talk" therapies, like Cognitive Therapy (that have proven to be as effective as anti-depressants, and actually better than it in the long term), psychiatrists still prefer to combine it and start treatment with such medications as it really helps you to understand how different you think and feel when you are not depressed.

Please note that if you are depressed it is better to start with well researched medications like anti-depressants (whose working are still not fully understood) than psychedelics. To be safe, consider shock therapy or psychedelics only as a last resort, after you have exhausted both anti-depressants and Cognitive Therapy under a good therapist and are really desperate.

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Re:Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst? by Spivak on Saturday September 03, 2022 @03:48PM (#32705424)

> This is exactly why anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications are prescribed - to help people realise what an "undepressed" state of mind feels like.

This is so real it hurts, I had two doctors diagnose me with severe anxiety without telling me — like they just put it in my chart thinking I already knew. And then one day I did one of those depression anxiety screens and failed so hard genuinely believing it was normal my doc, who I guess assumed it was managed, was like, “hey have you ever taken anything for mood.” And I was like “no, why would I do that?”

For literally the first time in my life I felt what “not anxious” feels like. I was in disbelief for months bracing myself for the pangs of anxiety I got in response to different triggers and… they just never came.

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Re:Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst? by webmobdev on Sunday September 04, 2022 @07:06AM (#32711791)

I am genuinely interested in this subject - Would you mind sharing what you were prescribed and if you experienced any side-effects? Are you taking it long-term? If not, how do you feel and cope after stopping the medication?

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