Yes!!! Psychedelics have been so transformative for my own trauma recovery and mental health. I’m actually working on a post right now about my experiences! Ketamine-assisted therapy has been extraordinarily effective at treating my depression symptoms. It absolutely rewired my default mode network and essentially reset my brain. Thank you for writing about this!
I haven't tried psychedelic medicine yet, buf I really want to some day. I think it's so promising, and I've heard, just like you wrote in this post, how life changing it can be if it's done at the right time and in the right setting.
You mentioned how it can help with PTSD and that got me particularly interested. I wanted to ask though, are there any psychiatric contraindications to using psychedelics? I'm dealing with C-PTSD and a severe dissociative disorder, and as much as I am interested in trying psychedelics, it also scares me quite a bit...
But I guess it most definitely depends on how well you are accompanied before, during and after the sessions, with a trusted medical team and therapist...?
You’re asking the very important questions sarah. Tes there are contraindications including a personal or family history of psychosis, schizophrenia and others. This is why it’s very important to do it with a full medical and psychiatric evaluation.
Thank you for the explanation, and sorry I definitely didn't want to put the focus on the "negative" aspects of the psychedelic therapy, as I'm sure that this is such a powerful and many times life-saving medicine. I just wondered about my own issues and how that could affect my experience if I ever try it someday. But as you said, that's why it's so important to have a trusted and knowledgeable medical team to guide the patient through this.
But I'm so glad to know how that can help with so many issues, and how people who have been hurting for so long might finally find some relief and some peace thanks to psychedelics. I sure hope this part of medicine will continue to be studied, and finally made more available to people who need it, instead of being frowned upon...!
No not at all. I thinks knowing the risks and downsides of any treatment is critical and there is no approach that is “all good” for everyone and that’s important to acknowledge! I hope that the upsides give people hope that even if this treatment is not for them, there is potential for change and healing.
I really appreciate this post, Tanmeet. I have mental illness and complex trauma and would like to discuss this option with a medical professional at some point. Your post has reminded me again about my intention to do this. Do you have any recommendations for going about finding a medical person who does this? I know that individuals can enroll in studies, but I haven’t found one near me. Thanks!
It is very interesting to witness how people build their stories. Psychedelic has the potential to reset our stories IF we follow along. Otherwise it could be a night/daymare or ‘nothing happened’ story.
I realised that where your focus goes, it’s what you get in life.
I coach people and it is interesting to witness a person go from severe anxiety/physical symptoms before they walk into my space, telling me they want to cancel it. The clients who take the step into my space and allow it to hold them, the symptoms/anxiety stops too.
BUT I am not a plant, I am a person. So I have easier to collude or similar. Specially if it is a severe trauma.
Sometimes the client has such severe trauma that trust, love or whatever to other humans are gone. Then a plant can be great.
I have witnessed some clients just heal themselves with my tools and me as a seldom whisperer in the background. Because I trust that my clients know inner most their pathways. I am just there to remind them and sometimes sort out their energy life stories weave with the tool kits I collected through the years.
I have worked with different plants and have witnessed how some people totally change direction in life after a simple pure cacao ceremony. But if I ask them, it is like they can’t remember how they were before, so they say that the plant didn’t worked.
I haven’t tried psychedelic medicine in a clinical setting but I used psychedelics in a therapeutic way, as best I knew how, and it was an absolutely transformative experience. It humbled me. It changed me physically. It didn’t heal me exactly, but it sent me down a healing path. I’m convinced that it saved me years of talk therapy!
Yes!!! Psychedelics have been so transformative for my own trauma recovery and mental health. I’m actually working on a post right now about my experiences! Ketamine-assisted therapy has been extraordinarily effective at treating my depression symptoms. It absolutely rewired my default mode network and essentially reset my brain. Thank you for writing about this!
I’m so glad you got some relief from your suffering. Can’t wait to read the post! It’s important for people to read others personal experiences. ❤️
I haven't tried psychedelic medicine yet, buf I really want to some day. I think it's so promising, and I've heard, just like you wrote in this post, how life changing it can be if it's done at the right time and in the right setting.
You mentioned how it can help with PTSD and that got me particularly interested. I wanted to ask though, are there any psychiatric contraindications to using psychedelics? I'm dealing with C-PTSD and a severe dissociative disorder, and as much as I am interested in trying psychedelics, it also scares me quite a bit...
But I guess it most definitely depends on how well you are accompanied before, during and after the sessions, with a trusted medical team and therapist...?
You’re asking the very important questions sarah. Tes there are contraindications including a personal or family history of psychosis, schizophrenia and others. This is why it’s very important to do it with a full medical and psychiatric evaluation.
Thank you for the explanation, and sorry I definitely didn't want to put the focus on the "negative" aspects of the psychedelic therapy, as I'm sure that this is such a powerful and many times life-saving medicine. I just wondered about my own issues and how that could affect my experience if I ever try it someday. But as you said, that's why it's so important to have a trusted and knowledgeable medical team to guide the patient through this.
But I'm so glad to know how that can help with so many issues, and how people who have been hurting for so long might finally find some relief and some peace thanks to psychedelics. I sure hope this part of medicine will continue to be studied, and finally made more available to people who need it, instead of being frowned upon...!
No not at all. I thinks knowing the risks and downsides of any treatment is critical and there is no approach that is “all good” for everyone and that’s important to acknowledge! I hope that the upsides give people hope that even if this treatment is not for them, there is potential for change and healing.
Absolutely! 💖
I really appreciate this post, Tanmeet. I have mental illness and complex trauma and would like to discuss this option with a medical professional at some point. Your post has reminded me again about my intention to do this. Do you have any recommendations for going about finding a medical person who does this? I know that individuals can enroll in studies, but I haven’t found one near me. Thanks!
It is very interesting to witness how people build their stories. Psychedelic has the potential to reset our stories IF we follow along. Otherwise it could be a night/daymare or ‘nothing happened’ story.
I realised that where your focus goes, it’s what you get in life.
I coach people and it is interesting to witness a person go from severe anxiety/physical symptoms before they walk into my space, telling me they want to cancel it. The clients who take the step into my space and allow it to hold them, the symptoms/anxiety stops too.
BUT I am not a plant, I am a person. So I have easier to collude or similar. Specially if it is a severe trauma.
Sometimes the client has such severe trauma that trust, love or whatever to other humans are gone. Then a plant can be great.
I have witnessed some clients just heal themselves with my tools and me as a seldom whisperer in the background. Because I trust that my clients know inner most their pathways. I am just there to remind them and sometimes sort out their energy life stories weave with the tool kits I collected through the years.
I have worked with different plants and have witnessed how some people totally change direction in life after a simple pure cacao ceremony. But if I ask them, it is like they can’t remember how they were before, so they say that the plant didn’t worked.
The process is complex and so individual. Thanks for this.
I haven’t tried psychedelic medicine in a clinical setting but I used psychedelics in a therapeutic way, as best I knew how, and it was an absolutely transformative experience. It humbled me. It changed me physically. It didn’t heal me exactly, but it sent me down a healing path. I’m convinced that it saved me years of talk therapy!
Love this and I’m so glad it gave you so much relief!!