never not dealing with it. what if it were easier for you to deal with pets than with people ? i can t imagine living without dogs. and what if you went from endurance athletes to wheelchair bound in just six months? you realize oh, this isn t going the way this is my life, you know? how would you cope? tonight we ll meet three people who overcame their odds by doing something that you might think is a joke. we re setting out on a strange trip. but stick with us. it s all about to make sense. think back on your childhood for a moment. do you remember the first time you saw mickey? how excited you were on your face? do you remember watching cartoons as a kid and the happiness that brought you entire industries have been built on this. on having kids experienced this magic. but what if you never grew out of that feeling? there are people whose affinity for animal characters never went away. people like lindsey. you okay? you sure? yes the first thing i notice about her is that
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
psychedelic psychotherapists of the future will have this medicine bag with a whole range of psychedelics. but for anyone thinking about striking out on your own dublin has a word of caution. dangers of the recreational use of these drugs is when difficult stuff emerges, which often it will if you try to suppress those difficult emotions, you end up feeling worse. several of our people in our studies said, i don t know why they call this ecstasy because it s not like you pop a pill and everything is better. if you re working through trauma that s difficult, but combined with a deep support of psychotherapeutic process, they can be profoundly healing. yeah. so anxious that you had to isolate yourself from society,