Psilocybin is a psychedelic compound from magic mushrooms that acts as a drug that can dramatically enhance the lives of people who suffer from incapacitating psychiatric disorders like anxiety and depression. And according to the findings of the research, the full impact of psilocybin still needs to be further explored.
Psychedelics like LSD and (lysergic acid diethylamide) psilocybin are more known as a party drug than as forms of therapeutic medication. But their likeness to …show more content…
Their analysis of the seven clinical trials administered over the past ten years testing the effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy on anxiety, depression, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder has revealed this type of psychedelics from magic mushrooms.
It has been revealed in several studies across different patient populations that psilocybin-assisted therapy is safe and that it has a bigger effect compared to other types of treatment for psychiatric disorders like anxiety and depression on validated psychiatric rating scales. This suggests that this type of psychedelics from magic mushrooms could even be a better treatment option for most patients, especially to those who did not respond to other medications or procedures.
According to the researchers, an important contrast from the other session-based treatments for psychiatric disorders like anxiety and depression are that the benefits of psilocybin-assisted therapy could only require few dosing sessions and the effects seem to last longer than the other treatment