> I feel like there will also people that have way too many prejudices towards these kinds of "drugs" because that's simply how we learned it. "Don't take drugs kids".
At least on Internet forums, the trend seems to be the opposite. Many commenters are very pro-psychedelic but anti-medication these days.
It’s important to remember that psilocybin may be promising, but it’s still not a great long-term treatment option. Not only have they not been studied beyond a few doses, but we have a lot of anecdotal evidence that excessive and sustained consumption of psychedelics seems to lead people into increasingly weird thoughts.
Of course we don’t have any controlled trials about long-term psychedelic use and likely won’t any time soon due to the ethical concerns, but it’s worth mentioning that these are not a magic bullet for sustained depression treatment. Traditional therapy is still the way to go.
> excessive and sustained consumption of psychedelics seems to lead people into increasingly weird thoughts
We have lots of _clinical_ evidence even that that’s the case for a lot of medication, which is why we don’t usually administer excessively and sustained, but carefully and controlled.
At least on Internet forums, the trend seems to be the opposite. Many commenters are very pro-psychedelic but anti-medication these days.
It’s important to remember that psilocybin may be promising, but it’s still not a great long-term treatment option. Not only have they not been studied beyond a few doses, but we have a lot of anecdotal evidence that excessive and sustained consumption of psychedelics seems to lead people into increasingly weird thoughts.
It seems a little bit can open people’s minds in ways that make therapy more effective, but too much openness to new ideas can start to open the door to increasingly weird thoughts: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psyched...
Of course we don’t have any controlled trials about long-term psychedelic use and likely won’t any time soon due to the ethical concerns, but it’s worth mentioning that these are not a magic bullet for sustained depression treatment. Traditional therapy is still the way to go.