Comment on A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 year ago
This could help with more than just Parkinson’s. ADHD, schizophrenia, depression, OCD, restless leg syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome… these are all linked to abnormal dopamine levels.
I personally would prefer more testing of psychedelics, like psilocybin. While that acts on the 5HT2A receptors causing more serotonin to be available (similar to SSRIs) it could potentially help with all of those conditions you listed as well. It absolutely helps my depression and anxiety and seems to have helped others.
Oh. You can’t patent a widely available mushroom. I grow and give them out for free.
i hate giving anecdotal evidence, but i was expecting it to be such a black and white change for me personally.
i can draw a clear line between the previous twenty years of my life, and a few years ago.
it’s just weirdly amazing to able to have a small thing go wrong and just be like “ah dangit.” rather than having a depressive spiral and mourning my own existence for the rest of the day.
not that i don’t have pessimistic views or bad days, it’s just not overwhelmingly defining of my every moment.
at the very least, i’m eager to see a lot more research being done. if it is legitimate, and others can have the same change in life experience that i’ve had, then it’s a damn tragedy it hasn’t been studied more thoroughly ages ago.
Yeah, its been an interesting transformation for me over the last few months, for sure. Psilocybin stopped being a party drug for me a while ago, actually. The drug isn’t “showing me things” that I didn’t already know, TBH. What I it is allowing me to do is parse through the extremely complex mind-fuck that I have been building for myself over the last 40 years.
My depression is gone and my anxiety is fading. I stopped my SSRIs a few weeks ago and had the mildest withdrawal from them that I have ever had in my life. My sleeping habits need a fuck ton more work, but one problem at a time.
Similar to Stamets and his story about stuttering, I am learning that I have much more control over my body than I previously realized, mood included.
I don’t want to go so far as say it is a miracle drug, but it is absolutely rebuilding parts of my brain that I was trying to extinguish with hardcore alcoholism. There is something to this.
More controlled research please. If anyone needs a guinea pig for lab testing, sign me the fuck up! (I am trying to get in a study at UC Boulder this year so they can poke at me a bit.)
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yea. I have ADHD. Gimme dem dopamine cells. I’m tired of people talking shit because I take a prescribed stimulant.
ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
People say negative things about that? That’s crazy, people are judgmental about stupid shit.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude, I’ve gotten rejected from jobs because of it. Yes it’s illegal, no it’s often not worth suing if the government decides not to take the case
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Don’t tell them next time.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have adhd and you know what’s worse than taking stims every day? Not taking them! I sooo wish we had another solution
GravityAce@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
T156@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Caffeine and Alcohol are a bit weird, since they don’t have the stigma that other drugs do.
If you say “Oh, I need a litre of coffee to function in the mornings”, people would just laugh and agree, whereas if you said that you had to take your stimulant medication/dextroamphetamine to function/took the caffeine in pill form, people might judge you for it.
You see it a bit with social media, where people say that ADHD is merely an excuse for laziness, and that medication does more harm than it helps, but will happily excuse people needing a coffee to start up in the morning.