Therapy is part of the 🍄 treatment. We know that psychedelics alone are not therapeutic. People go to Burning Man and don’t get cured of their illnesses.
Psychedelic therapy is more pharma than psychotherapists are used to and more therapy than pharma is used to.
John Wooley is beginning a study of psychedelics with bipolar disorder. To date, anyone with bipolar has been excluded from clinical trials with psychedelics.
It’s two 6-hour sessions of therapy surrounding a high-dose of psilocybin. People feel better and freer for months. We sometimes see people who are cured. They have gained a lens to look at life with a new perspective. We don’t yet know exactly how it works. The working model is that it induces a neuro-plastic state, becoming more child-like, allowing a reworking of habits and patterns and getting unstuck. Almost all mental illnesses have these ruts
Going to study depression, bipolar disorder, Parkinsons, OCD, meth addiction, and chronic pain.
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