OPINION - Psilocybin is different to other antidepressants — the Government is blocking patients who need it
Psilocybin saves lives. I have seen it with my own eyes on a clinical trial in London. One of the participants, a woman in her forties who had spent decades depressed, taking medications that left the illness untouched, felt bright and alive for the first time in years after just a single dose. But the government is blocking patient access.
This is different from routinely prescribed antidepressants. Rather than a daily take at home tablet, psilocybin is administered once or twice in a is not just the experience of a different state of mind, like a holiday, it can be challenging and works by making therapy more potent.
