There is no doubt that there has been a need for help in the mental health sector for sometime. Yet in the wake of a global pandemic and a growing uncertainty of the times ahead. People are growing more and more anxious and stressed. Death of loved ones, loss of jobs, children out of school. The times are growing increasingly unsteady. The talk of a mental health crisis is becoming louder and louder as we see children being taken into hospitals because of depression. There is also the fear of virus exposure and infection, as well as the struggle to keep up with all the changing laws and regulations. Its enough to have a headache just thinking about it.
Psychedelics can come into play with the findings from the recent case studies where more than 80 percent of anxiety riddled patients, experienced feeling much calmer and at ease with their surrounding and the bigger picture, rather than getting extremely overy anxious and stressed about all the micro managed aspects of ones life. As far as any trauma or shock or grief, MDMA has a strong record showing also positive results when it came it PTSD. Many studies have been done with refuting solders from the military, and many of those studies are considered to be extreme. However when it comes to shock from an accident, a death, a fight or any trauma causing stimulus, MDMA has proven to be a positive tool when treating the diagnosis with MDMA.
However this issue of therapy use at home, since the lock down, proves to have some kinks to work out with as well when it comes to home therapy. Since set and setting is one of the most upheld common protocols when it comes to Psychedelic assisted Psychotherapy. However the benefits certainly outweigh the negatives or any potential risks as we have seen in the past year.
A Desert Psychonaut 