Ask AI Mark and others discuss how micro traumas shape modern mental health and why psilocybin might work where Western medicine falls short. They argue current treatments have real limits and that psychedelic therapy could transform how we handle psychological pain.
We all have micro trauma, right?
We all were raised by parents who maybe didn't love us right or neglected us or maybe yelled at us too much, or maybe we had just the trauma of living in the modern world with the threat of climate change and nuclear war and incredible divisions in our society and, you know, the instability of our economy and social inequity. I mean, the list goes on. There's no lack of micro traumas. In terms of our paradigm in Western medicine, there's like really no treatment other.
Than anti-depressants.
Anti-Anxiety medications.
It's a long-term thing. It never really resolves the economic impact of chronic.
Disease on our economy.
Over the next 35 years, it's going to be $95 trillion, and the majority of it is mental health issues. And yet, here's this compound that with one or two, maybe three treatments can resolve this in ways that nothing else can.
Psilocybin potentially can help us deal with.
The whole range.
Of sort of stress.
Of living to more severe mental illness, which we're seeing escalating.