Across america, rates of depression, anxiety and post Traumatic Stress disorder are hitting epidemic levels. Individual suffering multiplied by millions is a lot of suffering. For many, mainstream medicines are not the answer. They have tried 16 antidepress ants and none of them work. Many think that the answer to psychic pain is in reach. Turn on, tune in and drop out. I have known that drugs have a force behind the counter culture. Been researched, but they are exploring their healing power. What we are talking about is a new field of medicine called psychedelic therapy. They have a hallucinogenic tool box. They are pathways to the unconscious. Gravity went away, and everything was in the air. I saw blotches of colors and designs. Tonight, we will meet three people desperate for help. But can a radical reset of the mind really open the door to healing . Where would you be if you had not been a able to do mdma. I for sure would be dead. Whos ready to go . This is tim. His husky frame masks a man who is deeply broken inside. Open this up. Yeah, tim, go ahead. I was very calm. Crippled by anxiety, tim works construction for a faithbased company that hire aed him when he was struggling. May you put your hand of peace on tim, allow him to focus. Today, tims coworkers are laying hands on him because they can see is in crisis. In jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Sweet. Awesome. Thank you, give me better prices. What do you want me to do now . Its hard to believe that not long ago, tim was a successful prosecutor in northern colorado. He locked up violent criminals until violence showed up on his doorstep. How far in to your law career were you when you became a victim . It was 2005. One night, he heard a comotion outside his front door. I just saw a flash of guns. And two men in masks busted through the front door and knocked me down. You remember looking up and seeing my wife standing there with a gun to her head. I mean my fear was that they would rape her and kill her. They locked us in various places in the house, demanded money. Drugs. And i had a hard time convincing them that i did not have any of that. They ransacked the house. I just felt that i needed to get us out of there. We are locked in the storage room and i cut the screen out of this little window well shoved my wife out. Tim and his wife escaped physically unharmed. With the harrowing experience, fundamentally changed him. Every time i went to the front door i would have a flash back and i would fall to the ground or duck. It was the beginning of tims unraveling. In the walk of the attack. His had marriage fell apart. And the only thing keeping him afloat was the support he got from his role model and best friend. His father. He would keep his phone with him at all times, he would answer it no matter what time of day. We would sometimes meet if i was having a hard time and pray. I was highly dependent on him, and then he got the news that turned his life up side down. He passed away on his horse. They did not find him until early the next morning. I just went crazy. You started kind of hitting a wall . Yeah. I became highly suicidal. I sliced my wrists. I still have the scars and my tattoo. I tried to shoot myself. I dont know why. When i tried to get help, i was put on a lot of medications. Benzodiazepines, i retired from the Prosecutors Office and went on disability because i could not do almost anything and i was grasping desperately for some way to survive. Main stream medications are failed tim and he did not know where to turn. For some people in his shoes a revolution in healing has been in the workers for some time. In 1986, a Research Organization was born dedicated to bringing the healing power of Psychedelic Drugs to the masses. Its founder is rick dobblin. This is my lair. Oh. Yeah, i have stopped filing. As you can tell. Rick is a pioneer of the resurgence of psychedelic medicine. And he has seen it all. During the 60s, so many people were motivated by their Psychedelic Experiences to go beyond who they thought they were. Feelings of peace, universal love and transcendence, unlocked by psychedelics, transformed an entire generation. The scientific, psychological break through. With its antiestablishment behavior, the movement seeped to pose a threat. We must wage total war against public enemy number one in the United States, the problem of dangerous drugs. In 1970, nixon passed the controlled substance act. Criminalizing all psychedelics. The backlash not just criminalized drugs for Recreational Purposes but wiped out Scientific Research for decades. Medical marijuana a is now for sale, just blocks from the u. S. Capitol. It would take decades for attitudes to change. The legalization of medical marijuana in early 2000s, was a major turning point. Giving dobblin the opening he been waiting for. Its taken roughly 50 years to 54 our culture to mature, now we have a psychedelic renaissance with more Research Going on now than then. What are psychedelics . They are substances found in nature on made synthetically in a lab that bring unconscious more to the surface. Drugs can promote new neural connections and pathways so we are actually rewiring peoples brains. His Research Group maps is focused on Clinical Trials with the psychedelic substance, mdma. You have probably heard of it referred to as the illegal club drug, ek tsa ecstasy or molly. Its no secret, i was a bit of a raver in the 90s and the kind of euphoria i experienced when i tried ecstasy was never forgotten. That was Recreational Use a. He is talking about something different. Combining intense psychotherapy with pure mdma to tap in to the unconscious, where trauma can linger. 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It was a struggle to just get out of bed, like tim, trish was struggling from post Traumatic Stress disorder. So, trish, is this all of your navy paraphernalia . Hmmm. It began in her career in the navy. These are like little awards that they give you. Trish enlisted when she was 21. Military service was a tradition. Military pictures. This is my dads dad and this is my moms dad. Here i am, right here. After making it through basic training, she felt like she was exactly where she belonged. I was really proud. I felt really safe. You felt safe . Yeah. Until you didnt. Yeah. One night, three years after joining the navy, trish found herself vulnerable while on leave. It was a few days after my 24th birthday. So lets party. You know, we are in port. Its your birthday. Lets drink. And i went to my first ever strip club. We are drinking. And then we were in a hotel room and we were having sex. But i was not enjoying it and i didnt want it. And in that moment its like my mind just shattered. And so i just pretended it didnt happen. Reality came crushing this this when trish discovered she was pregnant. She had an abortion. And began to fall apart. I had no place to process what had happened. So, after that, i didnt the trust anybody. She fell in a deep depression and could not do her job. The native bombarded her with drugs. Heres zoloft, okay, now i cant sleep. Heres lunesta, okay, now i have really bad anxiety. Heres busperone, now im tired all the time. Lets switch you to welbutr welbutrin, looking back i the did not know what reality was. Eventually trish was medically separated from the navy for major depression. She came home to the california ranch where she was born. And married aaron. Who she had known since high school. Its amazing out here. Sunsets and sunrises must had be incredible, huh . Yeah. They are. Its pretty. Hmmm. Even in the peaceful surroundings, trish could not escape the trauma she experienced in the navy. She was diagnosed with complex ptsd. Still could not function. Not long after, trish was pregnant with goldy. Everything was fine when i was pregnant, oh, lets take care of you, after i had her, it was, you need to learn to be a mom and you need to learn that, that means you dont sleep and you dont eat. And i was like, well, i cant, i cant do it. It was hard for me to be around goldy. I dont want her to see me like this. And i dont want her to think its her fault. By this point, trish had tried it all. Talk therapy, antidepressants and nothing had worked. Then she learned about Clinical Trials using mdma. I was emailing, i was calling. Like how do i get this in to the study . Trish was a perfect candidate. She had been diagnosed with ptsd, and was no longer taking psychiatric meds. She also screened negative for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, two disqualifying conditions. After three visits with her had with her assigned therapy pivot, she was ready for the first dose of mdma, what was it like the first time . I needed to talk, because i had never told anybody all of it before. And i really needed someone to witness me. During her first session, she accessed deeply painful memories and shared them with her therapists. I didnt want to have sex with that guy. But i had to be for people who have chronic severe ptsd, it seems like the trauma is always happening or about to happen, so they can never really relax. Mdma, reduces that activity 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 had really, really done that . Yeah. Yeah. But this was only the beginning of trishs healing journey. And to reach the light, shed have to travel in the dark est recesses of her own mind. And now that sprint is a part of tmobile were turning up the speed. 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Under the influence of mdma, trish enters a dreamlike state, stepping this to a story that as you know folding in her unconscious mind. Gravity went away. Everything was up in the air. There were scenes going on. I felt my ancestors come in to the room with me. They were very happy that i was on mdma, they were like this is very good. And we have a lot of work to do so lets get to work. I was Walking Around in circles. It was like i was just displaying for them my power. Like look. How strong i have been. Look at what a great warrior i am. Its powerful. Right . Then, trishas vision took a very have dark turn. I looked at my grandfather and he said is, we didnt ask you to do that. My grandfather started chopping me to pieces. And i was feeling this excruciating pain, my ancestors took my sacrum where you hold the baby and they burned sage in to it. I can see the smoke rise. I smell it. I was dead. In the therapy sessions, we are not the guide. We dont know where people need to go. We are more like the midwife, where the work is done by the patient and people are healing themselves. For someone who has never that psychedelic experience, this can all be hard to imagine. But dobblin tells me the power of mdma, allow the unconscious mind to reinterpret the trauma and transform it. After you had the experience, it was gruesome and horrific. Yeah, it did not feel good. How did you over come that to get to the third and final treatment . I dont know, i had a really open and honest communication with the two therapists. We are here for you all day. Like last time. One month later, trish was ready for her third and final session i expected the same an testers to be in the room. But what i got was the animals that needed to move my body. There was a jaguar that needed to come in. I felt exactly like a jaguar. My hands were paws. I was kneeling on the couch. I needed that ferocity and that energy in my body. It connected me back to my body. Like i could feel my body again. Oh, my god. Trish left the Third Session feeling like she had come through a gauntlet. With mdma, theres an ability to negotiate with your unconscious. You have swapped out the emotion of fear and terror with this emotion of more peacefulness, acceptance and it in the past. Where would you be if you had not been able to do mdma . I would for sure be dead. I would for sure, yeah. Wow, i could not feel love. I couldnt feel anything but pain. I could not keep going like that. I think mdma opened the for my healing. Beautiful. It looks good, right . Yes. Since the trial ended, trisha felt more positive and engaged in her life. And less controlled by ptsd. Her had husband aaron has noticed a big change. Do you think that this is helped her in ways that other things have not been able to help her . Yeah. This has been the best thing out of everything, antidepressants, diets, whatever. This is the only thing that i have seen that actually works. 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It was a rewiring of his consciousness. He writes, we were never more wide awake and the visions came whether our eyes were opened or closed. They emerged from the center of field of vision, opening up as they came, rushing now slowly at the pace that our will chose. Like mdma, the psycho active ingredient is a psychedelic. It can produce powerful hallucinations, offering a new perspective on death and life itself. According to this cancer patient, even tiny amounts can be life changing. So what are we looking at here . So, this is my medication. These are 375miligrams per capsule. These are from mushrooms you have grown on your property . Thats correct. He was a successful Corporate Executive with two children when he started to feel sharp pains in his back. The best description i could give, it felt luke i got shot from behind. The pain was caused by tumors in his spine. My tumors are not normal tumors, theres no name for the disease i have. We will be lucky to get you through august of 2008. So, a little less than two years. And my answer to that was, what do you mean . I have a 3yearold and a 6yearold, im not going anywhere. My children are too young for me to die. Alan began to crumble under the emotional weight of his diagnosis. They tried a minimum of 16 different antidepressants on me and none of them worked and half of them had the opposite affect. Worst was the nightmares. The only way i know to describe it, is someone is holding me underwater and i cannot get my breath. Panic. Pure extreme terror. And you dont go back to sleep after Something Like that. So, thats when they diagnosed me. You definitely have ptsd. Allen as tumors spread and his anxiety got worse. That is the point when my doctors said, look in to any method possible that you could look in to. Allen was drawn to mushrooms. They are illegal for medical use. But alan found a loophole to right to try act. A federal law that allows terminal patients access to experimental treatments if they exhausted other options. And the drug had cleared phase one of Clinical Trials. Its now in phase 2. And unlike mdma, alan could manufacturer what he needed right in his own home. Do you have a background in horticultural at all . No, i had to do the reading and the research, i was pretty much on my own. Agreement my doctors all told me, we are in agreement with you doing it, but we dont know how to dose it or grow it. He his first viable crop of psychedelic mushrooms. I decided to begin taking it roughly 250milligrams, taking three days off. How soon did you start to notice the affect of it . Within three weeks. A good analogy is, when you take off from the airport and its very densely foggy and the airplane goes through those clouds. And all of a sudden, its really blue skies up there. Thats what it felt like. Have you had any side affects . No, its truly a micro dose is what im taking. I dont have any perceptive changes when i take a micro dose. This is the same variety that you saw down stairs. How often do you pick the mushrooms . Once they start growing, every day. For about a week. So, yeah you can quickly grow everything that you need medicinally for micro dosing and have enough for years. And you take one capsule every few days. Every three to four days. Yes, one capsule. Theres people who take antidepressants, every day for years and years. I took antidepressants for 22 years every day. With a little, a little success. If you break it down monetarily, it costs me less than 500 to set up my system and have a perpetual level of medicine. You say that you have been cured of depression as a result of this . Yes. Hands down, im not the only one saying that. My doctors are saying the same thing. Well, for 500 hmmm. 15 years after his diagnosis, allen is still alive. His cancer is not gone, but his outlook has pro foundly shifted. Because of the use of the micro dosing of the mushrooms, i am in acceptance farber than i was. Im okay with where things are now. Are your doctors learning from you . Unequivocally, yes. And they are taking the information and running with it because i feel like people need to understand how to use it as a medicine. Up to now, Clinical Trials have focused on the affects of large doses and anecdotal evidence like allens story has sparked a surge in micro dosing. And its still considered a schedule one drug by law enforcement. It turns on out theres one Psychedelic Drug legal in america and while it too has a reputation as a club drug, for some patients on the brink of suicide, its been a life saver. I am taking her home. Universal pictures presents. How much you want for her . This child is not for sale. Tom hanks. Why are you doing this . She needs new memories. To laugh and dream. Well, you can certainly handle a horse. Horse. Captain. Make no mistake. Captain. I am what i live. 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You are probably wondering what became of tim, the former prosecutor i met in colorado who suffered a series of trauma that turned his life up side down. I felt like someone was poisoning the water that i was drinking. I felt like i was crazy. Like, i could not leave the apartment. Antidepress ants and antianxiety meds did not work for him. But a psychiatrist recommended something new. His depression. I started to talk to him about the idea of doing ketamin its currently the only Legal Psychedelic medicine in the u. S. When i heard about it for depression, i thought, that was very weird, why would a general anesthetic that puts you to sleep, how does it help depression . Around 20 years ago, psychiatrists started to experiment with it and found it could provide fast relief for some on the brink of suicide. I started only with suicidal patients and then, branched out and realized that it was helpful for a lot of people and to the point where now, three years later, i, its hard to imagine how i practice without it. Im rarely hospitalizing people for depression or ptsd. The doctor asked if i wanted to try one of the treatments and i said, i will try anything. He had four k. Ketamine treatments and it helped to curb the depression. And the affects wear off in time and now the symptoms are back. You are going to have your first treatment in eight months tomorrow. Right. You feeling like you kind of need it right now . Right now, when i open my eyes my alarm goes off in the morning and i wake up, feeling like somebody stabbed me in the stomach with panic. Im hoping that this can give me a boost. Good to see you. Did you get some sleep . I got a bit. Woke up in panic. Anxiety is high today. Before giving his injection, he wants to know his state of mind. Psychede lets talk about whats going well, whats not going well. Just feeling impending doom. It would be very, very difficult to keep going this way. What is if you had to put a number over the last week, ten would be healthy and under zero is ready to exit this life, where have you been ranging . Probably about a four. Uhhuh. To help tim focus, the doctor covers his eyes and pipes in music. Were here for you. Within minutes, tim slips into a space hes visited before. I remember starting to see blotches of color and different designs, just morphing with the music. Eventually i lost all concept of being a person. Its almost like i became part of this color show. Right now were about ten minutes in, and this is where its starting to get very intense, where tims body is disappearing, time is disappearing. Ego is disappearing. How does ketamin work in the brain . Ketamin is a dissociative anesthetic that seems to work by shutting down the brain for a while. Much like your heart gets gummed up, you just got to restart it. About 26 minutes, 27 minutes in. What do you think hes experiencing . His various senses of consciousness are coming back online, so hes probably starting to feel embodied again, that hes coming back into his body. At about 40 minutes in, tim starts to come out of his trance. Do you feel like youre coming back . Yeah. He needs a couple more minutes. Seems like you were deep in it. Was it difficult at all . It was so hard at first. I have tears in my eyes. Those tears probably needed to come out. Whats it like . In these first few minutes, tim seems soothed and a little more at peace. But ketamin usually takes about 24 hours to take full effect. I wonder just how different tim will be tomorrow . [ fizz ] joining meeting. [ coughing ] [ gasping ] skip to cold relief fast with alka seltzer plus severe power fast fizz. Dissolves quickly, instantly ready to start working. Oh, what a relief it is so fast. Just one look at you. 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For months, its taken tim everything he has to get out of bed in the morning. Now, hes bursting with energy and ready to attack the iron. It is an astounding transformation. I have a long way to go. With the ketamin, im actually hopeful about the future. Amazing. For all its benefits, ketamin has its drawbacks. It can cost anywhere from 400 to 2,000 a session. And theres still a lot we dont know. The issue with ketamin isnt efficacy. Theres a lot of other questions, how much, how often, who are the best candidates, how do we screen out people to keep it safe . And for right now its amazing and a lot better than what we used to have. It definitely feels like a brave new world. Every Single Person i met on this journey told me they wouldnt be here today if it werent for a Psychedelic Drug. I want to see you do some jumping and dance moves. Okay. Psychedelics put you in that area where the puzzle fits. It helps you see patterns that your logical brain does not know how to process. Why is this happening to me, why is that happening . Now you can see why. There are so many people who are hurting right now, just in this like insurmountable kind of darkness. Do you think mushrooms can save the world . Thats a bold statement. I think many, many people could benefit from it. Thats a bold answer. New frontier, but they have given patients new hope. And doctors new options for treating them. The psychedelic therapist of the future will have a whole range of psychedelics. But for anyone thinking of striking out on their own one of the dangers of Recreational Use, is when difficult stuff emerges, if you try to suppress those difficult emotions, you end up feeling worse. Several of our people in our studies said i dont know why they call this ecstasy. Its not like you pop a pill and everything is better. If youre working through trauma, thats difficult. Combined with a deep, supportive process, they can be profoundly healing. 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