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> SSRIs do not result in anything resembling a "high".

In my experience taking sertraline, years ago, it actually did feel like a very mild sort of high. I remember noticing that colors seemed to have literally become brighter, and physical sensations were more pleasant in general. If it were possible to microdose MDMA, I imagine that might feel similar.

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that just sounds like relief from depression, though?

people would even say the world feels or seems grey when they're depressed.

Well, yes, but that's kind of the point - it's just a chemical change in the brain which results in changed perception. Whether you think of that process as therapeutic or recreational depends on the context and your worldview.

i think it doesn't matter what is therapeutic and what is recreational. i think that's also not something the state can really decide, either? nor should it make this decision every time someone puts something into their body.

that we should just give people the capacity to do what they are going to do either way, safely properly and teach them how to reduce their self-harm and societal harm with what they are doing!

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