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> New research shows that psilocybin might be an effective treatment for diseases such as depression and addiction. While the work is still in its early stages,
by MichaelApproved 7y ago
> New research shows that psilocybin might be an effective treatment for diseases such as depression and addiction. While the work is still in its early stages, there are signs that psilocybin might help addicts shake the habit by causing the brain to talk with itself in different ways.
Interesting to see it might also help with depression because antidepressants are sometime prescribed to help quit smoking.
- Piezoid 7y agoDepression can be seen as protection mechanism that reinforce rigid thought patterns in order to avoid runaway (psychosis, mania). So anything tiping the balance in the other direction allows to deprogram those behaviors. This is related to the "entropic brain" theory, see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00020/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.0002...