Psychedelics have come a long way since their hallucinogenic hippy heyday. Research shows that they could alleviate PTSD, depression and addiction. So will we all soon be treated with magic mushrooms and MDMA?
Psychiatry has a terrible reputation of wrecking people's lives, and it looks like they are going to start all over again with psychedelic drugs.
Antidepressants can cause Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), where the sufferer may never be able to feel sexually aroused again, or be able to fall in love (emotional blunting). This condition is now officially recognised in Canada and Europe, and yet it is still little known, even by psychiatrists. Antidepressants can also cause depression to worsen in the long run when the pills stop working, which is irreversible for some people, and this is known as Tardive Dysphoria. The antipychotics can cause deleberating tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder similar to Parkinson's disease.
Most people with psychiatric illnesses suffer form low self esteem, and the conditions mentioned above can wreck what little they have, making a cure, or coping better with their condition, even more difficult.
Regardless of what psychiatry tells the public, they have not found any significant genes that contribute to mental illness. The profession needs to be reformed and taken out of the grip of Big Pharma.
The Guardian
Mattha Busby - Will the magic of psychedelics transform psychiatry?
Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder
This disorder can wreck lives as a lot of people are unable to cope with it all that well. It can fade with time, but for many it takes a lifetime to do so, and but there is always some residual HPPD.
Some people micro dose with psilocybin to help with their psychological issues, which may be safer, but more research is needed as some people get it from small doses of hallucinogens, and some even get it from cannabis.
A sufferer of HPPD
This young woman was sold the research chemical, 2CP, rather than MDMA. It has a terrible reputation of causing severe HPPD, but fortunately, psychiatry is not using this untested chemical.
Nay, Nay, My HPPD Story
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