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Originally Posted by Trexller
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man you gotta look into ibogaine treatment for ptsd, addiction, depression
it's a big deal in the SF veteran community, and still illegal in the USA
alot of men who got their mind and soul destroyed in combat and been a mess for years get 1 treatment and then they got their head on straight
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The thing about Ibogaine is there's a good chance for a transformational cure, and a modest chance for death, like old school alchemy. The medical establishment doesn't look very kindly on those odds, even if it wasn't cutting into the income from antidepressants and other shoddy-but-profitable interventions.
The sad reality is this: people see things like microsurgery, heart transplants, ECMO, mRNA vaccines, AIDS cures, and all other sorts of medical miracles and expect that when they go into the doctor complaining of things like depression, addiction, or PTSD, they are getting interventions of equivalent complexity and efficacy. In reality, they are getting leeches and reiki for their blood ghosts. Very few, if any, doctors will have an earnest conversation with their patient about the fact that we actually just don't have very many effective interventions for these problems. What we do have is barely distinguishable from placebo or natural healing over time. It's just, here's some pills, and on to the next one, knowing full well the patient probably already has preconceived expectations about what the doctor will be able to do for them, and will likely riot if those expectations aren't met.
Part of the blame lies with big pharma basically committing fraudulent science in getting these medications approved, part lies with the health insurance and medical ecosystem that treats doctors like assembly line workers and awards mediocrity, and part with the patients themselves being, generally, extremely poor evaluators of the efficacy of their own care. At times, the most effective intervention for these things is actually to not take pills, and instead to get your fat ass outside and do some interval sprints, high intensity exercise being the end-all-be-all gold standard for neuroplasticity and brain derived neurotrophic factor, but too many people would crucify their MD for telling them that and providing nothing else.
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Originally Posted by Trexller
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Why don't veterans get an entire month of observation and remembrance?
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I don't know about you but I'd take something substantive like health care or hiring advantages over a month of lip service and 'thoughts and prayers'.