MDMA therapy trials

[jbark]

Nutt believes MDMA could be invaluable. PTSD, he said, "is an extraordinarily disabling condition and we don't have any really effective treatments. In order to deal with trauma, you have to be able to re-engage with the memory and then deal with it. For many people, as soon as the memory comes into consciousness, so does the fear and disgust."

The full article is HERE.

Interesting stuff.

JBArk

 

[gibran2]

Here are two encouraging articles I’ve recently read:

Flashback! Psychedelic research returns - Medicine - Salon.com

Single dose of 'magic mushrooms' hallucinogen may create lasting personality change, study suggests

 

[Global]

Here are two encouraging articles I’ve recently read:

Flashback! Psychedelic research returns - Medicine - Salon.com

Single dose of 'magic mushrooms' hallucinogen may create lasting personality change, study suggests

Thank you for those two beautiful articles gibran.

 

[polytrip]

I personally had a few good experiences with MDMA, but i don't recall a lasting afterglow, or insights with a lasting impact.

I think it's therapeutic potential is far more limited than the potential of shrooms or DMT. It's quite superficial stuff compared to real psychedelic's.

 

[christian]

It seems that "shrooms" have major benefit in providing a religious experience.

-MDMA, has a special benefit for the use in treating PTSD patients, because it temporarily disables the "fear and anguish" part of old bad memories, so they can be revisited, dealt with, and worked through in ways that otherwise would have been blocked by feelings of fear, disgust, and horror, etc.

 

[jamie]

I got alot out of it..but I only used it 3 times. I see alot of people who use it often not really growing mush due to it IMO..and that is a general trend I have observed with people who favour amphetamine based psychedelics in general, compared to the tryptmaines, and others more similar to mescaline etc..I was thinking about this the other day and have a theory that maybe when the amphetamine group of psychedelics are used frequently one builds a tolerance to the more psychedelic side of the experience and all that remains is an amphetamine sort of buzz. Studies done on LSD have found that the perceptual effects of LSD are based on the right temporal lobe(right hemisphere) activity..I wonder if with amphetamine based psychedelics the perceptual effects are also based on the right hemisphere responce to the drug, but with more left brain stimulation as well due to the amphetamine quality..

So once one begins to use the substance too frequently they start to loose that right brain mode of psychedelic thinking, but continue to experience a sort of speedy amphetamine type high..which is more of a ego booster etc..this would explain alot of the behaviour I have witnessed in friends who basically abused MDMA, MDA etc..

I loved MDMA..just dont think I needed it anymore than the few times I took it. It helped me open up and dance in public..which was what I needed at the time. That was my main benifit of MDMA use. I have gone far deeper with DMT, psilocybin and mescaline.

 

[christian]

The way i see it is that MDMA allows one to be in a non judgemental state of mind. Shrooms, dmt, and mescaline also do this, but their "trippyness" can be a distraction if you are specifically using them as a PTSD treatment.

-MDMA may also be superior in the memory/fear eradication ability it has over the others.

-Ayahuasca, Mescaline, LSA, LSD, ibogaine, etc... may be good teachers to "re-set" people who have wandered off the steady path of life, simply because they are LONG and TOUGH trips to endure. One simply CANNOT dismiss a lesson that reverberated for hours inside ones head during a tough trip in the same way that one can dismiss another persons rantings about how you should do this/that, etc...:idea: