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FDA Approves Psilocybin for Depression Trial
- sekh60 8y agoWhile I am excited that alternative I've treatment options are being explored for depression and PTSD I wonder if we will ever find alternatives for diseases like schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. I have schizoaffective disorder myself and while I haven't hit any bad side effects from my antipsychotics yet I do worry about diabetes and tardive dyskinesia a lot. Of course I expect these alternative treatments to carry their own risks, but I am hopeful we can find treatments with fewer.
- jetti 8y agoAs somebody who also has schizoaffective disorder, I am hopeful for the day that there are alternative treatment to the anti-psychotics. I actually cycle my meds because dealing with how tired I get from the meds is worse to me than dealing with the symptoms. The symptoms aren't there all the time but the tiredness and fatigue are.
- pitaj 8y agoI'd love to see psychotropic therapy with different kinds of psychedelics become widespread. It keeps sounding more and more like these drugs are super helpful for a variety of mental conditions.
- BillBohan 8y agoI am more trusting of naturally occuring substances than I am of chemicals that do not occur in nature cooked up in labs of big pharmaceutical companies.
- anonuser123456 8y agoWell can I interest you in some deathcap mushrooms?
- bfuller 8y agoso if you had HIV youd opt out of anti viral drugs?
- coaxial 8y agoArsenic occurs naturally.