alt Hacker NewsIt's strange how much attention novel psychedelic treatments get compared with older, less glamorous interventions that already help a lot of people
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cluckindan • today at 5:25 AM
Bring back lobotomy!
H8crilA • yesterday at 5:53 PM
My point exactly. I am not saying psychedelics do not help people, they clearly help some people with some problems. But the balance of research and general interest is not proportional to how promising both paths already look. For example, which treatments are safer long term? It's unclear. At the same time it's clear that there can be unwanted long term side effects. In one very particular case, pregnant women that unfortunately do need something, we already know from physics and data on anesthesia that ECT is the better choice.
Yeah, super weird how people want to get away from the "less glamorous" intervention of deliberate brain damage.