sometimes bad things happen to really good people. i just saw a flash of guns and two men in masks blasted through the front door won t go away had no place to process what had happened. i was panicking about dying. across america, rates of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder are hitting epidemic levels. individual suffering multiplied times millions. that s a lot of suffering. for so many mainstream medicines are the solution tried a minimum of 16 different antidepressants on me, and none of them work. but something can answer to our psychic pain has been within reach all along. or non tune in and dropped. i ve always known that psychedelic drugs were driving force behind the counter culture. but now even mainstream research hubs like new york university and the johns hopkins center for psychedelic research are exploring their healing power. what we re talking about is a new field of medicine called psychedelic psychotherapy , mdm, a psilocybin ketamine. t
the. way for my healing. beautiful good. right ended. tricia s felt more positive and engaged in her life. unless controlled by ptsd. her husband, aaron has noticed a big change. do you think? this has helped her in ways that other things have not been able to help her. this has been the best thing. i don t know everything and depressants, diets, whatever. this is the only thing that i ve seen that actually works. goldie. i like this picture. that s really pretty. tricia s journey is no anomaly. hundreds of people like her have now been treated with mdm, a report extraordinary change. one maps trial with just over 100 participants measured a 68% success rate. reducing ptsd
to talk because i had never told anybody, all of it before. and i really needed someone. to witness me during her first session, found herself able to access deeply painful memories and share them with her therapists. fine. you have passed. i didn t want it with that guy, but i had to it. for people who have chronic severe ptsd. it seems like the traumas always happening or always about to happen. and so they never can really relax mdm, a reduces activity in the amygdala where we process fear. and it makes it easier for people to remember painful emotions. for trish. it felt like a breakthrough. it was the first time you d really, really done that. yeah. yeah. but this was only the beginning
her. to think it s her fault. by this point, trish had tried it all therapy, antidepressants, holistic medicine, but nothing had worked. then she learned about clinical trials using mdma. i was emailing. i was calling. like, how do i get into this study? trish found she was a perfect candidate. she had been diagnosed with ptsd and was no longer taking psychiatric meds also screened negative for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. two disqualifying conditions. after three visits with her assigned pair of therapists, trish was ready for her first dose of mdma. what was it like the first time i needed
can linger. well, i felt that m d m a was the gentlest of other psychedelics, the easiest to introduce into the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy, and mgm is perfect for post traumatic stress disorder for which the currently available medicines don t work that well. what we re hoping to do with psychedelic psychotherapy is to help people go to the core of the problem and to not need to come back to therapists. at all. that sounds wildly hopeful. but for desperate people like tim psychedelic therapy really deliver. monday history in the making beginning today, bringing you the news, disturbing new details, new way of questions still, the stories at the center of your day coming in right here central monday at nine eastern when the regular season ends. drama built. playing tournament