| In 2012, a team of medical researchers find out what happens when people suffering from severe depression are given magic mushrooms (psilocybin). Can this fungi offer patients a new positive perspective on things, minimize their fears, confront the past, and transform lives? NOTE: Mature content. |
NEW: Magic Medicine
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What I’ve always been desperate to do is to find a physical reason for feeling this way. The anxiety, the fear, the panic. The past 30 years, I’ve had 30 different types of medication and none have worked. I need to find a we to change. Lsd swung the door wide open for research into Psychosis. I think it psychedelics has the potential to revolutionize depression treatment, if not psychiatry. This Is the psychoactive ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms. Thousands of people who could benefit from these drugs are denied access. Just A small improvement would be lovely Just For him to see the world through a different pair of eyes. This Could be the start of a new life. Somebody could have one of the most profound experiences of their whole lives in it. No, no, no, no, no. Please go away. He Was taken back to a very, very difficult memory. I done an that lasts for six hours and doesn’t stop. People Can go through their whole lives without ever really facing those demons. This was the big ride. This is the one that changed things. Depression’s So prevalent, everyone’s exposed to it. Whatever the problem is, it will take you straight to that. You have to decide during and then whether you’re going to be a victory of that for the rest of your life or not. It made me think, well, perhaps I’m not just a passenger on this merry-go-round. Is that a beautiful experience, Would you say? I would say yes.