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@louisea966
September 6, 2026 at 3:08 pm
interesting
@chrisglover2697
September 6, 2026 at 3:11 pm
The brain rewired is just one part of it you have to stop doing certain things that contribute like smoking tobacco (tar) using white sugar and taking drugs like cannabis with tobacco and believe it or not your blood type can play a role in entanglement which can also lead to depression you have to see it for what it is a attack on your body and brain 🧠 my gold air solution works miracles for depression when applied to the other lifestyle changes it alters how you see depression fundamentally having low moods and crying all the time and having no motivation are the standard signs of depression but what about someone who shows no signs of depression in the normal sense but has a noose and a favourite tree 🌳 for when they have had enough of there life some would say that’s suicidal and a form of depression to want to take your own life
@FarhatIslam-k6g
September 6, 2026 at 3:50 pm
Brainstrom is medicine for me ❤❤❤
@Polymath72
September 6, 2026 at 4:35 pm
Weed is medicine for me.
@tastemymusic
September 6, 2026 at 9:38 pm
“We didn’t even know…”
Governments and drug companies know lots of drugs are helpful for certain populations of people respectively, but not ones that they can’t exploit. Criminalization of unsafe alternatives is magnitudes more lucrative until some “medical breakthrough” that’s been around for years, but is now a proprietary formula that can be conveniently approved just in time to provide billions in taxable income.
@andrewstanton1790
September 6, 2026 at 9:59 pm
Ket is the latest new okay drug to abuse.
@patrick.garriga2549
September 7, 2026 at 8:43 am
@andrewstanton1790 lame & lazy comment…literally ANY drug can be ripe for abuse…
@yeahahchung
September 6, 2026 at 11:01 pm
Right now with little to none other knowledge of this topic, I find it a bit hard to believe or understand with how can synapses help us have faith. If someone knows, please lmk
@bilibili68
September 7, 2026 at 4:19 am
what do you mean “help us have faith” exactly?
@yeahahchung
September 7, 2026 at 9:06 am
@bilibili68like have hope
@jammer6524
September 7, 2026 at 9:55 am
According to a study from Time and Mind journal psychedelic drugs formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times.
@wTwig
September 7, 2026 at 10:06 am
@yeahahchung we been tripping balls and “seeing Gods” since humans have been humans so I’m confused by your question.
@yeahahchung
September 7, 2026 at 10:09 am
@jammer6524 how does that have to do with depression, no offense
@SteveBazin
September 6, 2026 at 11:28 pm
Most Americans are on chemicals
@douglosgarrison5568
September 7, 2026 at 12:50 am
I was on antidepressant pills forever and then I tried psilocybin and nothing compares to psilocybin. One dose last 6 months. And one dose works better than any of the three different medications that I was on. Life changing
@osyasa6255
September 7, 2026 at 1:59 am
We also can use propofol for sleep. It also has rapid action. We know someone did it
@coolgirlrunning5163
September 7, 2026 at 2:54 am
This sounds like drugs. Drugs for the good
@atomparish
September 7, 2026 at 3:40 am
How did It take people this long to jump on bandwagon
@RickySalas-g2i
September 7, 2026 at 5:56 am
Going back to Forrest and farms kill depression …
@nariTheLoveableWorm
September 7, 2026 at 11:28 am
yes of course RickySalas-g2j, you’re right
@RickySalas-g2i
September 7, 2026 at 5:14 pm
@nariTheLoveableWormdepression is a side effects of people abandoning their country lands , shore lands ,forest and mountains, when you don’t dig you hands in fertilizer soil the happy bacterias don’t reach you guts for health.. we don’t need ketamine we need kick the billionares from the stealing lands and give back to nature and humans…we don’t need more medicals pharmaceuticals new developments, the 80 years capitalims has failed us and the planet.
@Kriketzzz
September 7, 2026 at 7:30 am
This honestly feels so gross.This is so reminiscent of when people said cigarettes or cocaine was good for you. I have a friend battling addiction to ketamine and she’s having to remove her gaulbladder because her usage has torn through it and it’s basically dying in her body. This is disgustingly stupid.
@uremawifenowdave
September 7, 2026 at 11:51 am
I’m so sorry to hear about your friend, but this is being used in a medical setting. If you’ve ever had any general anaesthesia you’ll have had ketamine as part of the operation. This isn’t recreational use.
@thomostrander3805
September 7, 2026 at 11:11 am
I wonder if it can be useful to treat substance use disorder or addiction
@4203105
September 7, 2026 at 12:12 pm
SSRIs still being the first line of treatment is such a joke. We know they don’t work better than placebo in mild to moderate depression and work only as well as any other stimulant in major depression, just with a much, much worse side effect profile.
@jenergy1000
September 7, 2026 at 4:19 pm
Look up how to reduce glutamate by diet.
@capitalist4life
September 7, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I cannot forgive Matthew Perry for what he did to the reputation of ketamine.
@jamesmaund4890
September 7, 2026 at 9:35 pm
Propofol for sleep is like getting chemotherapy because you’re tired of shaving your head.
Pregabalin made me feel great, until it didn’t. The doctor increased my dose. Five years later I was on 600 mg a day, often taking more, then running out a few days before the next prescription. The withdrawal is horrendous. I felt guilt and shame, I was dependent and loathed myself for it. I got off it.
Ketamine can have devastating effects on the body. The lecturer says ‘we think ketamine does this to the brain’. That means if you get offered it as a trial, you are part of the research.
Medical or recreational use of chemicals always has side effects. They give you a massive list of potential side effects in the box. The longer that list, be careful.
Alcohol is totally legal and will mess you up in the end. Ketamine will do the same.
I used cannabis when I felt manic. Again, great results to start. Eventually, it became more of a problem than I started with.
If you have ever been to AA meetings, the group bang on about Bill Wilson, the business man that founded AA. He was treated with LSD. He had a ‘spiritual awakening’, They don’t like to talk about that in AA groups. Bill Wilson made millions, smoked a lot of cigarettes and cheated on his wife a lot.
Pills and religious cults, work for some and not for others. Mental health treatment is still in its infancy. Don’t just stop taking your meds though, speak to the doctor about it.
I asked the shrink about social prescribing, I’ve made more progress with that. Support groups without the evangelical Christianity or more pills.
Be safe kids and remember what Nancy Reagan used to say… ‘Just say no!’ She obviously never visited a crack den.
@IIIytlll
September 8, 2026 at 4:09 am
This sounds so wrong, why would u block the brain from foncitoning at it normal speed? That’s not calming that’s sick
@johnnycanread9978
September 8, 2026 at 7:46 pm
Never start SSRI’s.
@BrakerOfStones
September 8, 2026 at 8:03 pm
I took anti-antidepressants for 15 years. I was misdiagnosed and it gave me severe suicidal depression that really messed me up. I won’t even take trazodone for more than a couple nights because although it helps with sleeping, it’s an antidepressant and it messes with my head. Nothing was working. I tried a dozen types of medication and finally, I tried not taking antidepressants at all. I guess what my depression went away and I haven’t been depressed since. I have lived life without depression for 15 years. It did however, screw up my hormone levels and my maturity my emotions and overall I am completely different than I was before the age of 24. I don’t recognize that person I was while medicated and I will never ever advocate for the use of antidepressants. I am very much against them, especially when niacin can do better for you and slow doses than pretty much anything else, and it doesn’t even require going to one of these super expensive ketamine labs for your doses of ketamine.