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Re:MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the Fir... by Traubenfuchs on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:56PM (#34650554)
Yes, yes it does. The desire is always there, garnished with the knowledge that every single hit melts your brain and permanently erodes your serotonin receptors a little bit.
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Re:MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the Fir... by bamboozled on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:47PM (#34651628)
Hasn’t been my personal, or my friends experience. Got some source ?
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Re:MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the Fir... by Traubenfuchs on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:20AM (#34653587)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071023/

> Although initially it proved difficult to find any cognitive sequelae that correlated with these changes,11 recent animal studies have shown subtle, but lasting, deficits in cognitive behaviorsthat do correlate with the levels of damage to 5-HT systems in the hippocampus.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2015.0044...

> In this study, we found an MDMA-related decline in memory performance on a visual paired association test in the first follow-up period in heavy MDMA users,

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Re:MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the Fir... by randomopining on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:41PM (#34656856)
Do you know any ways to reverse the damage or desensitization?
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Re:MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the Fir... by Traubenfuchs on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:58PM (#34657022)
I know of nothing specific.

Living the healthiest lifestyle possible would definitely have a great impact, but that has an impact on anyone who doesn't already live it: Food, nutrition, working out, cardio, meditation, sleep, avoiding negative emotions.

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Re:MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the Fir... by bamboozled on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:10PM (#34661754)
In animals ?
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