Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The Experimental Ketamine Cure for Depression" video.

  1. While I am a big advocate for not using drugs if you don't need to, for cases like Steven I can see why it becomes necessary... great to see he's able to cope better with traumas after going through treatment. His case and of many other similar ones aside though, I fear that we are becoming a society that is too dependant on drugs, specially when it comes to drugs for escapism because we fail to and completely give up changing reality to something that we can better cope with. Say, even if a supposed drug was approved by the FDA and had no side effects, isn't it kinda backwards to become dependant on some sort of drug because we can't fix what's wrong with society? Lots of people will hate me for saying this, but for a more specific example, isn't it sad that we have people ending up as alcoholics because they need it to "loosen up" or "take initiative" or "help socialize" among other justifications? Apart from exceptional cases where there is a clear trauma or system imbalance that's irreversible, the point when a big part of society becomes dependant on certain types of drugs, I think it's necessary to look back on our own cultures to see if there isn't something wrong there that could be changed so that people can lead healthy and happy lives without having to "tweak" things articially all the time. I'm no hippie myself, I'm a smoker, I have my stash of medicines for every sort of usual illnesses, and I would never refuse taking medicine and treatment if I became ill with something, but just a reflection.
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