From personal experience, psilocybin works wonders for anxiety/depression. The analogy I like is our inner dialogue sets our mood/outlook and repetitive or compulsive ways of thinking that become problematic and effect us negatively are like bits of flotsam clogging a filter. As alluded to above, our brains are lazy and tend to follow the rut of predetermined paths (ways of thinking and interpreting ones environment) which result negative symptoms if certain paths are followed, more clogging of the filter. Psychedelics erase the pathways and make the brain establish new connections, possibly why there is a sense of childhood wonder. This also “unclogs the filter” so to speak, relieving symptoms by refreshing the way one processes things-for a while. If you don’t work at changing your defects or the way you react to your environment, the negative thoughts come back and clog the filter again. Psychedelics are just a tool, sometime years of therapy in a night, but you still have to do the work yourself.
PS-Milson, I just finished 2 SSHZ journals which led me here, kinda feel like a fan meeting a character from a show I’ve been binging lol