We've all heard really scary
things about psychedelics. Get away! They scrambled
your chromosomes. They caused you
to hop off of buildings. It was all terrifying. So I took a look
at the true effects of these substances. I was very surprised
at what I found. Mescaline, psilocybin, MDMA, LSD. For a lot of people, this was
the bad and evil drugs. But the opposite is true. There are really people
who could benefit. can't wait to see
what's going to happen. What if mental
health problems lik
e OCD, PTSD,
alcoholism, and depression could all be helped? I'm a fairly conservative,
sober scientist, but I've seen it work. And this medicine here
starts to help heal. Some of my friends said,
"Don't do it!" Psychedelic therapy has the potential
to revolutionize mental health care. They broaden the lens,
and you realize, "Oh my goodness." "There's all of this. I didn't know." It's like a light bulb
has gone off. My story is the same story
as millions of veterans. Where my story becomes un
ique
is I took MDMA three times. It saved my life. It really did short-circuit
this suicidal period that I was in. It's not like magic bullet
that everything's perfect. But just think how much
human suffering could be relieved. This is the tool
for understanding the mind. This tension continues to grow. If the drug war ends,
what's the peace look like? We're all striving to have
good health and happiness. This medicine helped me stand
on my own two feet. True science probes the very frontiers
of
human knowledge. And that's where
psychedelic research is right now.
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You gotta love Netflix for shining a light on such an important topic. Finally psychedelic substances are shown in their true light 👌🏼✨
The most mysterious thing in the universe - the mind.
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ― Terence McKenna
I am 234 days sober from alcohol today. I have suffered from anxiety, severe depression, PTSD, and agoraphobia since 2019. I had never taken a psychedelic in my 35 years until 2021 when I became desperate and suicidal I listened to Paul Stamets on Rogan and mimicked to the best I could the John’s Hopkins studies with veterans (I am not a veteran) suffering from PTSD. I’m now using my 14+ years of government, public affairs, and strategic communications to support these efforts in the state of Texas as we see this psychedelic renaissance at the intersection of Mental Health and a post-Covid world in need of a Rick Doblin-sized solution.
It's about damn time these substances are considered medicine. They are tools, not a cure all or magic pill. They work with the right intention! Create a good set and setting, go and do the work. Psychedelics saved my life, improved my well being and gave me a perception of the world that I could not have seen otherwise. A true gift!
Once I took psychedelics for the first time, it made me realise I’ve had the feeling of anxiety my whole life, sometimes I’d feel it more than others. But for the first time in my life I experienced the feeling of zero anxiety and it made me cry I was that happy.
Kudos to Netflix for Bringing such amazing Documentaries back to back!
My hubby sent me this while I'm at home preparing for a 4g mushroom trip. Did ketamine therapy last year and a couple acid trips since then. Started doing mushrooms this year and my life has completely changed. My parents were always abusive and I've been stuck being a child waiting for them to love me. I feel like mushroom made me feel like mother nature was holding me, and like the guys says "I was able to stand on my own two feet". I am finally letting go of my childhood trauma and realizing I don't need my parents to love me and I love myself. I am not the person they gaslit me into being. I stood up to them and I stood up for myself. I am finally becoming the person I was always meant to be instead of this traumatized hurt person... I couldn't be happier to have had these opportunities and I'm so happy more people are talking about this. It has been so painful to let go of my past but also the best feeling in the world. I am accepting of reality and life and death and am losing my deep emotional attachments to everything that used to hurt me. It's incredible.
As a disabled combat veteran of the Iraq War, I can tell you first hand, that psychedelics have been a life saver!!
I honestly believe LSD helped me through a really rough time after losing my daughter. It opened up my mind and made me face things I was hiding behind. It showed me what I was hiding from and made me face it but it was very enjoyable not scary in the least. After I faced them and told myself what I was going to do about it I completely opened up and felt free for the first time in 4 years after losing her. My friends didn't even know what I was really dealing with but they noticed a huge change in me for the best after my first and only experience with the stuff.
Read the book and can't wait to see this. Psilocybin changed my life after many years of dealing with PTSD. I'm so glad that we are having more of these conversations and my hope is that the treatment is made readily available for more folks in the future.
As a therapist it warms my heart seeing this 🖤
I am so happy to be living during the psychedelic renaissance. I can personally say, using psilocybin a few times helped me a ton and had no negative affects. It restored my brain to the stable state I had before a very traumatic period of my life. It feels like a crime to me that this substance is extremely illegal, because it's the only thing that was able to save me.
This is medicine of my ancestors and I am blessed to be carrying this message and helping others. Let the doors open!
Anti-depressants for 3 years did nothing but worsen my OCD, because it suppressed everything I struggle to deal with. One psilocybin trip and I had so much clarity. I will never forget the first time, I started laughing at something my brother said but somehow ended up crying for the first time in years. Now I take a 2mg dose once a month, just to clear up anything that I am not aware of. Psychedelic trips depend on how much, where and who you do it with.
We watched episode two last night. As soon as Ben started talking about his OCD and his baby my husband (who also has OCD) started crying his eyes out…the main reason we haven’t had kids is because he doesn’t want his OCD to negatively impact them. We had a lovely mushroom trip at the weekend, but just for fun. Now we’ve watched that episode we’ve decided the next time my husband trips he’s going to do it with healing intentions set beforehand.
His book made me explore into the world of psychedelics and boy it truly blew my mind. It was one of the best decisions I took.
Thank you Netflix for moving forward to help people understand the importance of psychedelic drugs. They can be a portal for self realization and can help people if monitored by people that know how to assist people while taking the drug.
This is great!! De-stigmatize the use of psychedelics. We need less chronic use of medication and more opportunities to sit with our experiences/discomfort to unpack our emotions. Only then can we develop a deeper understanding of who we are. I just think it's unfortunate how corporations are already circling down on psychedelics and trying to monopolize it through patents...
I'm a chronic pain and depression patient, and just began ketamine infusions this week. My suicidal ideation I've suffered from and survived for nearly 30 years is gone for the first time. I am finding true peace. I can't wait for this documentary.