LSD doesn’t just treat mental illness, ‘it could actually heal the brain’
The UK charity Combat Stress, which provides support for British military personnel, lists alcohol abuse, panic attacks and PTSD as among the most common mental illnesses seen in returning soldiers.
Unlike physical illness, for which we have the language to be more nuanced (from feeling “a bit poorly” to lying critical in an ICU), mental illness is often treated like a binary condition: you’re either fine, or you’re not. And if you’re not, not only will you have to find a way to manage your symptoms, you’ll face a stigma that lingers…“Mental health for years has been inadequately addressed, partly because the tools we had on offer were hard to scale, and partly because some of the most powerful tools in brain health were stigmatised and turned into scheduled drugs, effectively halting any progress that could be made to prove their efficacy,” says Khaliya, public health specialist and mental health advocate. “The drugs I am referring to are psychedelic compounds like Psyciliciban, LSD, MDMA, Ayahausca and 5-MeO-DMT.
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LSD doesn’t just treat mental illness, ‘it could actually heal the brain’
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