drugs on their own and without qualified psychological guidance are unlikely to fully solve your problems.
I do not entirely agree here, albeit psychological guidance is preferred and would obviously be optimal, I do not think it is a necessity. I think the dosage of said substance plays a large roll in the therapeutic value. With something such as LSD, I agree with the idea of psycholytic therapy (
versus psychedelic therapy), which consists of multiple sessions (
in clinical settings, a qualified psychologist is present in the entirety of the duration) of low - medium dosages (100 - 200 µg's) of LSD repeated on a various number of sessions.
Do you know what their roots are?
I will bring up the Freudian Iceberg model of the mind (
in relation to consciousness), I think that traumatic events (
which I am sure we could qualify the roots of depression as) transport themselves to the unconscious (
subconscious) portion of the mind. Our mind has setup mental defenses (
such as repression) that are stong enough to render the "victim" without memory of the incident, but with present conscious issues (such as anger, depression, etc.); essentially, I think if one were to fully comprehend and accept the roots of the issue, and how those roots affect their thought processes, the issue would resolve or atleast move to a state of remission.
A rational understanding of the problem and its root does not resolve it... Ask yourself: "how does this make me feel"? And accept your feelings.
I think that is partially contradictive, I believe that it takes fully understanding the root of the problem and the cause and effect to be able to accept it.
Anyway, I find LSD, 2C-E, and MDMA to be very therapeutic.
2C-E helped me extremely with bringing up a very traumatic set of events in my life, facing them, accepting them, and literally changing my life. A depression that had caused feeling of extremely low self-worth and a low self-image were caused by a small set of traumatic events that I had unconsciously repressed.