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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 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!
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