Since I was 13, I was told it was a chemical imbalance, and that chemistry was to blame. I was lucky enough to live in the brief epoch where any substance can

Since I was 13, I was told it was a chemical imbalance, and that chemistry was to blame. I was lucky enough to live in the brief epoch where any substance can be delivered to any door, for a reasonable price. Having worked my way through the Erowid vault, through all the domains of types of drugs, it wasn't until external life changes outside of neurochemistry that the chemistry was "balanced" It wasn't internal chemistry that was at fault, but external social interactions, richer than what 3-MEO-PCP, 4-ACO-DMT, 25i/b/c, ketamine, or MDMA/MDA/MXE could achieve in isolation. We aren't just biological computers in a vat, we are social animals. Drugs have different interactions with people based on expectations, which is cultural. Sometimes it's not the drugs, it's the circumstances. We didn't evolve to stare, eat, and be entertained from a series of ever-rounding rectangles.