Falling for Psychedelics

This article and most on the subject tend to undermine themselves, they make it out like it is something you need to be cautious about and then say some like "Nearly 1 in 10 American adults had at least one depressive episode in the past year," well yeah, depressive episodes are part of life and an important part, it is something we all have to go through and not something which should be cured; a depressive episode is not clinical depression or psychotic depression or manic depression and we really should not blur this line. Someone going through a depressive episode generally only needs support, not drugs; someone going through regular recurring depressive episodes may need more and these drugs may work for them.

The push towards removing all pain from life sends me into a depressive episode.

I have done more than my fair share of psychedelics and they can be very powerful life changing things but the line between being reborn and ruining your life seems very fine from what I have seen and I am not sure the outcome can be controlled, it is Russian roulette for your mental well being. The people who I have know who have had their lives changed for the better by use of such drugs always returned to where they were before and more did not return them to happiness, it only made things worse and for a few it ended up in their death, it ultimately served only as a reminder that life could be good and that their life was not good. Then again more than a decade ago an experience with DMT caused me to cease all drug use and not because it was a bad experience (it was the polar opposite), I just felt no desire for or interest in drugs after that, but in my experience I am an exception. Every couple years I try some drug for nostalgia's sake and it does nothing for me, something fundamentally changed in me after that DMT and I have no idea what. I can not say this change was for the better, in some ways I would say my life was better before but in other ways it is better now, only thing I know for certain is that something is different.

The way many advocate for and use these drugs reminds me far too much of the countless early stage hardcore addicts which I once knew, they acknowledge the risks but ultimately are justifying their use and nothing more. I do believe there is potential here but I can not help feeling that we are going down a road that will make the prozac addiction/abuse of the 90s look like an over indulgence of prunes. I hope I am just being paranoid about it because I have seen the worse.