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Preliminary clinical research shows that it can help with depression and drug addiction, among other ailments. Anecdotal benefits I've experienced (as a typica

Preliminary clinical research shows that it can help with depression and drug addiction, among other ailments. Anecdotal benefits I've experienced (as a typically healthy person): - Improved mood for a least a couple months (happier, more awake/aware, calmer, less fatigue, more motivated) - Reduced feelings of stress and anxiety - Increased empathy for others - Increased self-awareness, in particular of bad habits. This in turn helps me improve my diet as well as keep good physical/mental exercise habits. - Increased creativity and openness to new ideas.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> Preliminary clinical research shows that it can help with depression and drug addiction, among other ailments. Virtually all of the clinical trials and robust research studies psilocybin in conjunction with 10 or more non-psychedelic therapy sessions. It's a mistake to think that you can ignore the intense therapy that goes into these studies and focus only on the psilocybin.
- paraph1n 5y ago
  I agree completely and did not mean to imply otherwise (hence my phrasing of "it can help with" rather than "it can cure"). Yes, that research involved combination treatment of psilocybin alongside psychotherapy. That said, the anecdotal effects I listed are just from personal use without psychotherapy. But of course they're anecdotal :)
- inlined 5y ago
  I assume that, like in this article, control groups also get therapy
- craftinator 5y ago
  > Virtually all of the clinical trials and robust research studies psilocybin in conjunction with 10 or more non-psychedelic therapy sessions. Tangential, but I've noticed that all the psilocybin trials I've read about are combined with therapy as well; my knee jerk assumption is that there are legal/moral/funding powers at play causing that. Not sure a study would get funded if it consisted of "we're going to get a bunch of depressed people to take shrooms and see what happens!". The more scientific approach would be to separate the therapy group from the shroom group.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

> Preliminary clinical research shows that it can help with depression and drug addiction, among other ailments. Virtually all of the clinical trials and robust research studies psilocybin in conjunction with 10 or more non-psychedelic therapy sessions. It's a mistake to think that you can ignore the intense therapy that goes into these studies and focus only on the psilocybin.

paraph1n 5y ago
I agree completely and did not mean to imply otherwise (hence my phrasing of "it can help with" rather than "it can cure"). Yes, that research involved combination treatment of psilocybin alongside psychotherapy. That said, the anecdotal effects I listed are just from personal use without psychotherapy. But of course they're anecdotal :)
inlined 5y ago
I assume that, like in this article, control groups also get therapy
craftinator 5y ago
> Virtually all of the clinical trials and robust research studies psilocybin in conjunction with 10 or more non-psychedelic therapy sessions. Tangential, but I've noticed that all the psilocybin trials I've read about are combined with therapy as well; my knee jerk assumption is that there are legal/moral/funding powers at play causing that. Not sure a study would get funded if it consisted of "we're going to get a bunch of depressed people to take shrooms and see what happens!". The more scientific approach would be to separate the therapy group from the shroom group.