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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 Arik on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:49PM
Two individuals briefly slipped, not out of the gravity well, but over the rim and over onto the lunar side of it at least, for a brief time, then they came back. A handful of individuals made that trip after. IIRC no one's even done that since ~72. And no one's gone any further, not even for a brief trip, let alone to settle.
So no, our race has not yet made it out of the gravity well, not in any sense.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?