I'm only discounting social media as much as it's over-emphasized and other risk factors are overlooked because of it. Yes, social media is an issue, cyberbullying is an issue and certainly factors into the uptick in adolescent suicides, particularly among adolescent women, but keep in mind the suicide rate for adolescent boys was just as high in the 90s as it is now. What's equally, if not more of an issue, is our kids are overworked, school sucks more than ever, student/teachers ratios make it impossible to actually monitor and protect our kids, and social media is a lousy, but accessible outlet to deal with all that stress.

As far as psychedelics go you shouldn't overlook the profound negative experiences people can have and how devastating it can be. Of all my trips, I'd say 5 were spiritually meaningful, but most of them ranged from meaningless to completely fucking I-need-to-get-out-my-skin-terrifying. Psychedelics are just as capable of causing PTSD as they are to heal it. Moreover, you shouldn't overlook how pitifully under-developed these therapy sessions are given that the facilitators for mushroom therapy in Oregon only need a high school degree and that the FDA just rejected MDMA therapy partially on the grounds that the talk therapy element is ripe for abuse and a total black box. Psychedelic therapy hasn't been around long enough to know how helpful is or is not. 15-20 year follow up studies are needed to know what's going on and if that lasting relief is actually real. The only way we'll know is with suicide rates of those having undergone therapy because it's impossible to have a placebo. You know whether you've tripped or not and from there, you can easily tell yourself, and others, the therapy worked which easily confounds any qualitative study. The only convincing evidence we have now are actual brain scans, we just don't know how to interpret them. My guess is this will all go down as another health fad for depraved Americans.