Just because you don’t actively go out and seek for a drug does not mean you are not addicted (conditioned)to it.
Just because you don’t actively go out and seek for a drug does not mean you are not addicted (conditioned)to it.
I think psychedelics are safer in that regard. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever physically done "too much acid". Even some people who ingested tens of thousands of micrograms (thinking they were snorting coke) came out of it perfectly fine with appropriate care (since the amount was so high compared to the usual dosages, they did need medical care).
Serotonin syndrome is when you have too much serotonin, not too little.
But can I tell you my own brother said he "could not live without Prozac." What does that sound like to you?
Prozac artificially increases serotonin as as a result your serotonin receptor density changes. So trying to stop the drug, not only do you end up with all these horrible side effect, but your depression will be much worse until your receptor density normalizes again.
There is a biological marker for the need of insulin. There is no such thing when it comes to prozac.
Keep trying people.
Anyways, I agree with you w.r.t. many psychiatric drugs. Don't try to spread that into psychedelics though - completely different, it has enough of its own problems and it's not necessary to make up some non-existent on top of that.
Not for psychiatric drugs, which is my only point. I am not against pharmaceuticals.