In CPEP's research, one thing people say helped them most in their post-psychedelic-crisis recovery is: other people’s stories. Here’s one life-saving story - Deborah’s account of her post-MDMA spiritual crisis and recovery, from the book Breaking Open. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/deborahs-s...

The fundamental learning window (we normally lose in our adolescence) can be reopened briefly through psychoactive drug therapy - which is the reason why MDMA is so useful in treating depression and PTSD (among other things).
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Muniz believes that Lykos Therapeutics would have obtained approval for its MDMA-assisted therapy new drug application this year if it had included certain safety data.

"Unfortunately, Lykos missed the mark when it came to safety data", he said later in our interview.

⚠️ My new preprint examines the opposite conclusions of the 🇺🇸FDA👎 and 🇳🇱Dutch Commission👍 about #MDMA therapy for PTSD.

I suggest that FDA more closely followed the hierarchy of EBM, while the Dutch approached what a pluralistic EBM+ assesment would look like.

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