It seems to me that to feel depressed and anxious after such a diagnosis is normal. How about some grief counseling?
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MCI is not dementia.
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As desperate as clinicians have been to reduce suffering, wildly destructive treatments are a stain on 100 years of psychiatric interventions.
The recent tsunami of enthusiasm for hallucinogens for many intractable disorders reflects a familiar hope and a reminder of the need for caution. There is no shamanic tradition in America; there is almost no reliable evidence to administer psilocybin or LSD as a therapeutic agent to drug-naive patients in great distress, dementia or end-of-life.
Yes -physicians must try to do good in the face of failed conventional methods, but it is a higher priority to do no harm.
Private experimentation is not a sound basis for medicalizing these substances. Careful screening, long term follow up and a coherent psychotherapeutic framework must come first.
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there is research being done (again) with psilocybin at johns hopkins that has shown some promising results for depression, as many of the standard drugs have many negative side-effects. let's hope this research can continue and will provide some much needed help to so many who suffer.
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@lonna
Psilocybin is a compound that I had never heard of. After exploring it on Wiki, I think there needs to be a significant amount of research on its benefits and risks. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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Psilocybin is AGE OLD but illegal since time immemorial. At the same time, It is far less harmful than Prozac, for example.
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