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Will Psychedelic Therapy Transform Mental Health Care?

26 pointsby anythingnonidinover 7 years ago

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SolaceQuantumover 7 years ago
This is presenting psychedelics as a kind of cure-all for a variety of things that seem unrelated on its surface: anxiety, eating disorders, addiction, trauma, depression, etc. I would argue we are treating symptoms and not figuring out the causes behind these illnesses such that a single drug treats all of them.<p>I would also note that there are glaring holes: There&#x27;s no research on sensory issues with psychedelic therapy, something that has co-morbidity with a variety of these disorders which will make treatment more difficult. Psychotic depression, bipolar whose manic symptoms enter psychosis, delusional thinking common in anxiety&#x2F;depression&#x2F;eating disorders, and sensory distortions common in PTSD&#x2F;eating disorders...<p>I would temper my excitement about this until we can prove either why it works or the specific situations it works in, which I suspect will be far less than the cure-all it&#x27;s being presented as here. It reminds me of immunotherapy, stem cell treatment, etc.
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