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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a 40F. I used low-dose ketamine when I went through a severe depression about 3 years ago. I was pretty shocked at how unregulated it was, and how the company was more interested in keeping me as a paying customer than actually helping me get better. Even after I stopped because I was getting better, they kept sending me marketing emails urging me to get back on it.

That's what I tend to see when cannabis and psychedelics used for mental health. The goal should be to get off of them entirely, but that seems to rarely happen. If someone needed to drink regularly to deal with their mental health problems, we'd recognize it as a problem. But for some reason we turn a blind eye to these drugs. Likely because they aren't really prescribed by a doctor trying to help you get better; they're pushed by for-profit companies.

There was a viral social media post I saw recently about a man who did psychedelics and had the revelation that his girlfriend is an actual person with her own feelings and pain, not just an extension of him. That's been my experience with men who use weed/psychedelics, they have these revelations that are actually very common sense. Nothing particularly deep or meaningful about it.

Also, my xH abused both cannabis and psychedelics (which funny enough is what led to my depression and me turning to ketamine). I couldn't leave our infant alone with him because he would use while watching DC, and while driving, and he eventually tried to sneak off with another woman to spend a week doing psychedelics together & screwing each other, claiming it was a "work trip".

I do believe some people genuinely need it for mental health, but it's been my experience most people just want to get high. If it's for mental health, it should be prescribed and under the supervision of a licensed medical professional, same as any other mental health medication.
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