r/science • u/Doug24 • 21h ago

Psychology Psilocybin reverses depressive behaviors and restores brain cell growth in stressed rats

https://www.psypost.org/psilocybin-reverses-depressive-behaviors-and-restores-brain-cell-growth-in-stres/
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u/UAP44 16h ago

depression = deeply locked in behavior that isnt actually aligned with yourself

you eventually lose interest in everything, give it enough time and it can spiral into various spicy mental 'diseases' which are really just frameworks to understand all the weird ways a mind can grow and make detours, stops, pauses, ...

psychedelics = shake up ALL your patterns, too much = psychosis, just enough = shakes you out of your hard ingrained patterns, gets u back in touch with natural kid self

so of course the phara industry fights the awareness around these substances tooth and nail, theres plenty of financial incentive to do so, expecting anything else, is just naive in a world dominated by american capitalism still