That may or may not happen. There’s no need to be a dick and take away what small bit of hope these results might offer people.

Eta: I would feel the same way you do if this was some snake oil grift touting a one shot cure for cancer or something. This, however, is just offering a slight mitigation of depressive symptoms related to the actual disease.

Your experience with psychedelics at the age of 19, while your brain was still developing, has no relevance to adults suffering from life-long ptsd and terminal cancer getting positive side effects from the drugs.

Let their lungs collapse?..

I feel like you and I would probably have a lot of good conversations. I don’t say that to many people. Thank you for everything you post here, it’s part of what keeps me going buddy.

No, thankfully I could see where his humor was coming from. He was quite lonely after we moved to a rural republican area. So I made it a point to not bring girls home for noisy one night stands, and to spend more time with him and our mutual friends. Getting married and having kids probably helped me settle down. I’m very sad he doesn’t get to meet his youngest nephew.

Eta: I did laugh at the question, that’s why I like to tell these stories.

My late brother used to love to bust my balls, so him being the person he was, would introduce me (us) as “he’s the gayest straight man you’ll ever meet, and I’m the straightest gay man you’ll ever meet”. He wasn’t flamboyant or anything, and I do enjoy antiques and musicals. He also threatened to haunt my left testicle if I kept having raucous sex without bringing someone home for him. Anyway, thanks for reading. I miss that big, proud asshole.

Anywhere there are people, regardless of population density, there will be some with badly wired brain cells.

While I can’t necessarily disagree with your correlation≠causation argument…

I could just as easily claim that vehicle fuel economy improving during the 70’s caused a decrease in female suicides.

Better gas mileage probably contributed a more than zero amount to that decrease.

Infinite money and access to unscrupulous doctors combined with mental illness and body dismorphia caused by years of abuse will do that to a person, go figure.