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The chemistry of connection

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics

I do prescribe regular old antidepressants. But over the years, we've just sort of lowered the threshold for who needs medicines and for how long. And it's gone to something that I was calling a while back like cosmetic psychopharmacology. One of the problems with the SSRIs is if you push on the dose a little bit, people get more and more numb. They don't feel depressed, but they also don't feel anything very deeply.

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