Psychedelics have gained a bad reputation in our country but we're beginning to discover that magic mushrooms, Ayahuasca, and ecstasy are the very things that could treat mental illnesses. Since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in June 1971 any hopes of researching psychedelics and treating illnesses have come to a halt. But various studies now have come to show that not only do psychedelics improve people's mental health but have cured depression, drug addiction, anxiety, and PTSD.
"The biological and psychological evidence seems to show that these drugs can have a unique effect on altering the patient's subjective experience in a very powerful and meaningful way, " says Dr. Matthew W. Johnson from John Hopkins. He added the drugs, "can help people who are in a very difficult place psychologically break out and get unstuck."
Another psychiatric researcher, Evan Wood, says, "Psychedelics allow users to have a spiritual or mystical experience. Those who have such experiences often end up having profound insights that have significant effects on the behavior."
People who have mental disorders are often cornered into a place where they cannot find a way out of their mind. They are literally trapped and running in circles. This cannot be treated on a conscious level. It needs to go beyond that and be treated on a subconscious level. In comparison, people treated with psychedelics often see results within a few doses; sometimes even one. Whereas people taking prescription medication have to take them for years and often times be on them for life to for it to be effective.
"With even minor mental health condition minor depression or anxiety...or more serious problems like addition, the existing paradigm is to frame these as chronic, lifelong diseases. Psychedelics are a total paradigm shirt in the way that mental illness is treated."
Psychedelics can help treat addiction by reducing cravings. Magic mushrooms are proven to lower anxiety and improve mood. LSD can help reduce obsessive-compulsive disorder behaviors as well as people who are diagnosed with no cure and have end-of-life anxiety.
The Amazonian hallucinogenic Ayahuasca can cure depression, anxiety, PTSD, and open the mind of up deep spiritual experiences.
For people who are not diagnosed with any the above psychedelics can be a powerful resource to coming into a deeper understand of self and develop self growth.
"People made claims to be more sensitive, compassionate, tolerant, to have incased positive relationships, an increased need to serve others. Those kinds of changes are not delusional, because blinded interviews with family members, friends and work colleagues confirm these reports."
In recent studies scientists say that the drugs can help understand how the brain works but some of them "have the potential for misuse and addiction." However that is no different that the drugs that are socially acceptable and approved by the FDA. The difference that FDA drugs' side effects are massive compared to those of natural psychedelics though.
Ayahuasca should always be done in a controlled setting with experience shamans and healers. This is not a party drug in anyway. Ayahuasca does not have the playful effects like magic mushrooms and ecstasy. She is purely used for healing and learning.
For now, Ectasy, LSD, or Ayahuasca should be used in a controlled setting, and scientists may want to harness the drugs’ therapeutic elements, eliminating the hallucinations or feelings of dislocation. And people shouldn’t start self-medicating with psychedelics, either, Johnson warned.
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