High-dose psilocybin treats depression more effectively than the SSRI, escitalopram (aka Lexapro)
High-dose psilocybin treats depression more effectively than the SSRI, escitalopram (aka Lexapro)
Findings from a recent study demonstrated that high-dose psilocybin provided a superior reduction in depressive symptoms compared to both placebo and escitalopram in patients with major depressive disorder.
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As someone who has taken high doses of psilocybin while also being depressed, I’d like to declare shenanigans on this particular study. It fucked me up a lot and not in a good way at all.
Hope you're doing better, psychedelics can cut both ways, the therapeutic framework is what helps it be beneficial.
Overall I’d say I’m past the majority of what I experienced those times. Granted I’m still depressed, but that’s more down to life circumstances and the current world at large. But thanks for the kind words. Idk how you came across this post 6 months later lol, but that’s the beauty of the internet. I still don’t get why I got downvoted all crazy, but people on here are a bit ridiculous from time to time.
Because your one anecdotal point of uncorroborated experience is somehow more than enough to invalidate the 811 sample size of the actual, controlled study.
Self-diagnosed depression? Self-administered psilocybin? Come back and let us know when you can have psychiatrist on-hand for evaluation and accurately measured doses of pure psilocybin, you know, like an actual scientific study. Actually, it still wouldn't matter as one data point is effectively meaningless. I'm sorry you fucked yourself up a lot in a bad way, but that doesn't mean this study is invalid.
Oh, but it does.