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Posted by TriedEveryMedication on March 25, 2024, at 14:55:11
My pdoc thinks hallucinogens are the future for treating depression and anxiety. He's semi-encouraged me to find an underground therapist.
Though I've done mushrooms before, I've been somewhat reluctant to find such a therapist because - at least my thinking - what decent therapist would risk their career on doing illegal and unproven therapy?
On the otherhand, there's now legal "guided" psilocybin sessions in Oregon. Except looking into this, these guides are not really therapists. They're basically state-sanctioned trip sitters.
What are your thoughts on this?
Posted by Hugh on March 26, 2024, at 14:34:19
In reply to thoughts on 'guided' psilocybin therapy?, posted by TriedEveryMedication on March 25, 2024, at 14:55:11
It sounds like you have an enlightened pdoc. From what I've read about the underground therapists who use psychedelics, they come across as feeling so passionately about helping their patients that they're willing to risk being arrested in order to do so. In How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan writes about taking psychedelics under the guidance of underground therapists. In Blue Dreams, Lauren Slater writes about talking to an underground therapist. Slater decided against trying psychedelics, but she believes that psychedelics will transform psychiatry.
Psilocybin is also legal in Colorado. MDMA is likely to receive FDA approval later this year as a treatment for PTSD. It's likely that psilocybin will receive FDA approval in two or three years.
Like you, I've also done magic mushrooms. And I've tried LSD twice. I was using psychedelics recreationally, and was unaware that they'd been studied extensively as treatments for mental illness until the War on Drugs halted all research for two decades. A single dose of magic mushrooms lifted me out of a suicidal depression, and it would be years before I became severely depressed again.
Posted by Hugh on April 5, 2024, at 12:19:12
In reply to thoughts on 'guided' psilocybin therapy?, posted by TriedEveryMedication on March 25, 2024, at 14:55:11
In this podcast episode, military veterans discuss how they were helped by psychedelic-assisted therapy.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1198909987/1a-draft-02-07-2024
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