Other people prefer to go the individual route and have an individual therapist who is helping them kind of with their identity formation, despite having this disorder, or a cognitive behavioral therapist who might work with them on their self-talk or their attributions. Groups I think are very...
In the months that followed, I went on three guided psilocybin journeys with Lilah, which is not her real name because magic mushrooms are still illegal in California. Trying to describe these journeys reminds me of what people said to me when Rob died—there are no words—after ...
Peter asks if Paul and his family ever talked about seeing a therapist to process the loss of his brother There was some discussion about it, but partly because of his generation, he hadn’t been to medical school yet so he had no knowledge of anything; but he was a little more ...
hallucinogenic doses (see sections below). Recently, there is a growing interest in the use of the so-called psychedelic “microdosing,” which refers to the intermittent self-administration of sub-hallucinogenic doses of psychedelics, mostly LSD or psilocybin, for a duration that can span from ...
Some work with MDMA or psilocybin or ayahuasca, which has become trendy to drink in self-exploration ceremonies all over the country; others administer 5-MeO-DMT, extracted from a toad in the Sonoran Desert, or iboga or ibogaine, which, according to the scant research that exists, may be ...
present,” Mitchell notes. “We know they can help PTSD, depression, alcohol- and drug-use disorder, end-of-life distress and other conditions.” One dose of ketamine can work for about 10 days to fight depression, she adds, while a session of MDMA or psilocybin might do the trick for...
The Grammy winner explained that experiences with an eating disorder and stage freight led her to start a form of PTSD treatment called MDMA and and psilocybin therapy. “I was touring without stage fright for the first time,” shetoldRolling Stonein May 2025. “There was a hook around my...
Other people prefer to go the individual route and have an individual therapist who is helping them kind of with their identity formation, despite having this disorder, or a cognitive behavioral therapist who might work with them on their self-talk or their attributions. Groups I think are very...