It has been the best antidepresant in the history of life, just legalize it.
The whole "antidepressant don't work" feeling is caused precisely because we expect them to work on all cases and finding the right molecule - and dosage - is hard. But make no mistake, the drugs we have right now sometimes work amazingly well, for some people.
Psilocybin - if it actually shows long term improvements under double blinded studies - will just be more tool in the arsenal, but will not be the miracle cure some predict it to be.
That was 15 years ago now. Most of it has been good. Some mental health issues popping back up lately, but I think it’s more of a mid life crisis/loss of youth thing, that feels a little unavoidable.
I’m not advocating it as the super cure, but it can absolutely be a super cure for some. I think it’s reasonable if you haven’t experience this sort of darkness and subsequent transformation to not understand it at all. It’s not stuff some couldn’t also do without therapy and medicine. But if you have trust issues and can’t open up to a therapist, it can help you open up to yourself in a productive way.