Posted by Bill82 on April 10, 2015, at 20:36:12
In reply to Re: Psychedelics for depression: risky, posted by Zyprexa on April 10, 2015, at 20:03:33
Generally psychedelics will cause eruptions of mental symptoms in those predisposed to them. Generally if you have everyone on the earth a trial of a psychadelic most would not become psychotic. With that being said, most people who use this are doing so because of having a mental illness. Mental illness is a huge predictor for more mental illness(or mental instability) so taking a psychadelic to treat a mental illness is extremly risky.
There are reports of lsd being very helpful for addictions, ocd and depression, but as you have said it can also erupt psychotic symptoms or severly worsen anxiety that is latent. Overall, there are much less risky ways to acheive similar effects/benifits. And if those treatment shave failed to produce a response (such as ssris or remeron nefazodine) chances are psychedelics(as in tryptimines like lsd peyote psylocibin) will not have any different mechanism of action than the aforementioned drugs.
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