Psychedelics are not simply dumb emotional amplifiers as you characterize them, they can radically alter your mood (for the better or the worse) pretty radically from your initial mood. They can generate or amplify one small insight into a wonderful state of mind, or they can generate or amplify an absurd fear to the point that you lose all sense of hope and reality.
Correct, but that happens to you every day on a minor level. You just don’t notice it because there are filters in your brain. Psychedelics remove those filters.
It comes down to inhibitory control. People suffering from depression lack inhibitory control of negative thoughts and emotions, which leads to a feedback loop of thinking more negative thoughts and feeling more negative emotions.
