Yeah but that serotonin crash afterwards was bleak. At this point in my life I can do E about once a year. Any more than that and I get really depressed afterwards.
Although I do know people who are clinically depressed, and the hangover/crash doesn't bother them as much, because it's their normal state anyway.
I take your point. I meant it in the context of an earlier poster - if not the title topic, itself - who drew a line between ketamine_as_medication and ketamine_for_fun, and implied that that recreational drugs as a form of depression therapy were merely a way to have 'a fun trip', and not of any real benefit.
However, insofar as fun is synonymous with happiness, which is antonymous with depression, every cure for depression involves the end goal of fun - one way or another. Pharmaceutically / chemically, emotionally, socially, intellectually, spiritually, you-name-it.
Therefore, regarding this topic, I was positing that, where usage of recreational drugs as a novel cure for depression is concerned, the fun is the curative. But I can see how my generalisation could be interpreted as minimalising, if viewed as a pithy solution precluding all nuance - which it was not intended as!
