It seems paradox when I read about e.g. LSD or Magic Mushrooms and it says on one side they can be used to treat mental illnesses but on the other side you have to be in a ‘healthy’ state of mind
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Mental illness is not like a virus; it’s not a case of having it or not.
What they’re talking about is that some of those drugs require pathways in the brain, helping you connect paths that would not otherwise be strongly linked, based on brain activity at the time they kick in.
So if you take a clinically depressed person and give them these drugs while they’re suffering a depressive episode, it could turn really ugly. But if the drug is taken while they’re feeling pretty good, it has been known to positively reinforce that state such that the depression when it comes is no longer so overwhelming.
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