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"Leon" is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous blog, in Portuguese, where he describes the challenge of living with a mental illness that affects some 300 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Leon is among the roughly 30 percent of those patients with treatment-resistant depression. Available antidepressant drugs like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors do not alleviate his depressed mood, fatigue, anxiety, low self-esteem and suicidal thoughts.
A new study may offer hope for Leon and others like him.
Our team of Brazilian scientists has conducted the first randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of ayahuasca – a psychedelic drink made of Amazonian plants. The results, recently published in the journal Psychological Medicine, suggest that ayahuasca can work for hard-to-treat depression.
Source: Amazonian psychedelic may ease severe depression, new study shows
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday July 04 2018, @09:53AM (2 children)
Yes. Arik put it very well but you're right it's the "cup half empty" view of things. I've heard that so called mind expanding substances could help someone to notice many other possible ways of viewing what's in the cup. So you'd get the "cup half full" but also probably a whole load of things you never would have realised were hiding away inside folds of the cup to begin with! And if you could redefine your own place in it all, that could help too. We get depressed about our external environment because we're a part of that environment and because of how we interact with it and the ways in which we are responsible for it.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by ewk on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:07PM (1 child)
cup half full... cup half empty...
To me it just seems you guys have too much cup :-)
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:47PM
Ah but a bigger cup makes it look like you can take more liquor. No-one knows you only ordered half -- you could have already drunk it!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?