[ativzzz]

Or because it's not really medicine and person specific? I've taken LSD several times in varying doses and it's never been anything more than "a really really fun time". Nothing profound, but damn fun times, the same effect as any fun memorable party

Perhaps if you are looking for something profound or want a change of mindset, psychedelics might be able to help you reach it - similar to how shamans used psychedelics to talk to their gods or whatever - but if you're just looking to have fun that's what you'll get

[efields]

Last time I remember taking LSD I was on a bus going from NYC to Boston and I guess I was either bored or knew we were going to have a longer than usual trip home because of traffic. I wind up talking with the guy behind me for hours who describes something to me he was working on that sounds like modern day Spotify (this was circa 2005ish?). We get into spirituality at some point. We have a 7 hour trip and get home early morning before the subway is running. We walk around the Commons a bit. He had a cane but didn't need it… just used it as a fun prop in life. He had me believing his name Joshua or in Hebrew Yeshua aka Jesus. (edit: copy pasta)

Anyway if you take drugs to party and then go to a party, you'll party. If you take drugs and do therapy you'll do therapy. If you take drugs just to see what happens and you're open to whatever happens, things will happen. Maybe you'll just have an oddly memorable time and you ponder what it means, slowly altering how you think about other things for the rest of your life.

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

The anecdotes you give don't necessarily suggest this is person-specific. They don't refute that, in the general case, there might a good chance for a person who is depressed to have their symptoms alleviated by an LSD trip. Were you depressed (in the DSM-5 sense) any of the times you took LSD and had "a really really fun time"? A person who is not depressed obviously won't notice the mindset shift which alleviates their depression.

[ativzzz]

I've been "depressed" if you want to call it that based on the DSM-5 definition both before and after the LSD trips. And no not during - that's one of the benefits of fun events - you forget about depression because you're too busy with other things, at least I do anyway

[klyrs]

I did LSD once in the depth of grief where I was having trouble processing the loss of multiple family members. I went in with a "roll up your sleeves and clear out the garbage" mindset and it had an incredibly profound effect. Other times it was just fun, though I've also found elusive solutions to problems I've been working on, similar to dreaming.