Oh, The Places You'll Go When Trying To Figure Out The Right Dose Of Escitalopram

One way of looking at the difference would be to say that while the left hemisphere's raison d'être is to narrow things down to a certainty, the right hemisphere's is to open them up into possibility. In life we need both. In fact for practical purposes, narrowing things down to a certainty, so that we can grasp them, is more helpful. But it is als

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Also, psychedelics have a fundamental discordance with allopathic research which can never be overcome. The placebo problem is unsolvable. And these medicines are customarily adjacent to non-directive therapy, and ongoing integration. We'll never be able to quantify those things in a trial format the same we we can for a blood pressure pill. Finall... See more

What the title is alluding to is that the right hemisphere is the master, while the left hemisphere is his emissary. And when the emissary overestimates his role and tries to overtake the master, things don’t go well.