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Ketamine: Benefits and Risks for Depression, PTSD & Neuroplasticity

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The Effects of Ketamine on Psychic State

Ketamine, psilocybin and MDMA have such profound effects on people's psychic states when they are under the influence of them. They do seem to provide impressive relief from a lot of these psychiatric challenges like depression and PTSD. People naturally correlate those two things. But it is not clear at all that it is that experience and the effects of those drugs in those immediate minutes and hours That's actually what's causing the relief from depression.

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