{"id":632,"date":"2018-01-08T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2018-01-07T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T19:53:32","slug":"new-treatment-alternatives-for-depression-magic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/new-treatment-alternatives-for-depression-magic-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"New Treatment Alternatives for Depression &#8212; Magic Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"e9LeppKNyf\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psypost.org\/2018\/01\/magic-mushroom-compound-might-treat-depression-reviving-emotional-responsiveness-brain-50533\">Magic mushroom compound might treat depression by reviving emotional responsiveness in the brain<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psypost.org\/2018\/01\/magic-mushroom-compound-might-treat-depression-reviving-emotional-responsiveness-brain-50533\/embed#?secret=e9LeppKNyf\" data-secret=\"e9LeppKNyf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Magic mushroom compound might treat depression by reviving emotional responsiveness in the brain&#8221; &#8212; PsyPost\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve seen posts regarding the ongoing research being conducted in using magic mushrooms to help treat depression but it&#8217;s interesting that it&#8217;s been cropping up more and more.\u00a0 Psilocybin as part of a treatment regimen sounds promising, though most studies I&#8217;ve read indicate it&#8217;s use in Major Depressive Disorder I do wonder how it may be applied to more mild forms of depression.<\/p>\n<p>The main take away I&#8217;ve had from a lot of these studies tends to be that we&#8217;re still a bit of a ways off on understanding how the diff treatment courses may have to be tailored per patient and what areas of affect actually yield the best return.<\/p>\n<p>For myself I&#8217;ve mainly focused on lifestyle change and supplements intended to help with general brain health and serotonin production. While not as intense as a full SSRI treatment I&#8217;ve had an easier time with emotional fortitude (for lack of a better term) than I have in the past. It would be my hope that if this treatment course gains traction that it becomes more readily available as something that HMO&#8217;s will be more apt to adding to their formularies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magic mushroom compound might treat depression by reviving emotional responsiveness in the brain This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve seen posts regarding the ongoing research being conducted in using magic mushrooms to help treat depression but it&#8217;s interesting that it&#8217;s been cropping up more and more.\u00a0 Psilocybin as part of a treatment regimen sounds promising, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/new-treatment-alternatives-for-depression-magic-mushrooms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Treatment Alternatives for Depression &#8212; Magic Mushrooms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[4,90,91],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","tag-depression","tag-magic-mushrooms","tag-treatment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-ac","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}