Re:Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope
by Aurornis on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:03PM
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> I have heard stories of people who “had one treatment and never smoked/put their elbows on the dinner table ever again.”
Social media selection bias at play. The real world results are very mixed, but usually don’t result in life changing benefits that you read about in selected stories.
There’s also an unhelpful bias toward purely positive stories on the internet. I had a friend get addicted (yes, addicted) to psychedelics who could not stop acquiring and dosing them on a weekly basis for years. It was a huge problem, but strangely when I mention this story people will rush to argue it, deny it, insist I’m lying, or try to downplay it with the old “psychological addiction isn’t physical addiction” gimmick.
Social media selection bias at play. The real world results are very mixed, but usually don’t result in life changing benefits that you read about in selected stories.
There’s also an unhelpful bias toward purely positive stories on the internet. I had a friend get addicted (yes, addicted) to psychedelics who could not stop acquiring and dosing them on a weekly basis for years. It was a huge problem, but strangely when I mention this story people will rush to argue it, deny it, insist I’m lying, or try to downplay it with the old “psychological addiction isn’t physical addiction” gimmick.