While I am excited that alternative I've treatment options are being explored for depression and PTSD I wonder if we will ever find alternatives for diseases like schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. I have schizoaffective disorder myself and while I haven't hit any bad side effects from my antipsychotics yet I do worry about diabetes and tardive dyskinesia a lot. Of course I expect these alternative treatments to carry their own risks, but I am hopeful we can find treatments with fewer.
As somebody who also has schizoaffective disorder, I am hopeful for the day that there are alternative treatment to the anti-psychotics. I actually cycle my meds because dealing with how tired I get from the meds is worse to me than dealing with the symptoms. The symptoms aren't there all the time but the tiredness and fatigue are.
I'd love to see psychotropic therapy with different kinds of psychedelics become widespread. It keeps sounding more and more like these drugs are super helpful for a variety of mental conditions.
I am more trusting of naturally occuring substances than I am of chemicals that do not occur in nature cooked up in labs of big pharmaceutical companies.
Well can I interest you in some deathcap mushrooms?
so if you had HIV youd opt out of anti viral drugs?