A change in perspective can help a lot, I think. Drugs aren't a magical cure, but psychedelics can have a deeply personal impact on people, and sort of force th

A change in perspective can help a lot, I think. Drugs aren't a magical cure, but psychedelics can have a deeply personal impact on people, and sort of force them to look at their life in a different light. I think that our brains like to split our lives into neat little silos of experience. We were young children, then we were students, then maybe we were in high school, followed by big bricks of more school, or being in the same job/lease, or focusing on the same hobby, etc. Well, sometimes those bricks of time kinda suck and there don't seem to be many alternatives for change. Not everyone can afford to go back to school or take a trip to the alps for a month of meditative glamping or what-have-you, when they think that it's time to break up the cycle of today being more or less like tomorrow. Of course, many of these studies also use very low doses of psychedelics alongside more traditional therapy. That's maybe not the sort of thing that seems likely to give someone an experience that inspires a 'first day of the rest of their life' view, so maybe I'm just hand-waving a bunch of hooey. Caveat emptor.