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Re:Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope by caturopath on Friday October 20, 2023 @12:57AM (#37952511)
> Importantly, this tracks with what we know about the protective effects of things like religiosity against depression

I always took the mechanism to be community, that sort of thing. I guess if you're right we'd expect Pentacostals to be protected more than Lutherans, etc.? Do we have any idea what data is out there that might be able to disentangle this sort of question?

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Re:Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope by omginternets on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:21PM (#37960324)
I'm not sure I'd agree, at least not directly. Community is transcendence of self, and both Pentacostals and Lutherans concern themselves with questions of divine order. I'm not sure I see a significant difference between the two (for our purposes, at least).
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