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That's very much a case of "working as intended". Most cases of depression aren't chronic, but can be self-perpetuating (low mood leads to a hard time fixing the things that make your mood low, which leads back to the low mood).

Anti-depressants can break that cycle long enough to let you get your stuff together to the point the cycle stays broken.

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> Anti-depressants can break that cycle long enough to let you get your stuff together to the point the cycle stays broken.

Cycle-breaking is the selling point of using psychedelics for mental health treatment.

From what I can gather they're far more effective than "traditional" anti-depressants.

Early studies for new therapies are often much more promising than the therapy actually turns out to be once deployed on a mass scale. I absolutely agree that psychedelics should be explored as a medication of choice but some promising early studies don't mean that antidepressants like SSRIs no longer have a place or that the early promise will prove out in the long term.

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