Cameron Herold's son has severe anxiety and depression. His doctors say MDMA and ketamine therapy might help, but psilocybin could be risky for him. Most psychedelic use happens outside clinical settings, with people mixing different drugs for personal development.
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99% of people use psychedelics outside of that medical clinical context, and they're using it for personal growth, professional leadership, development, all sorts of ways. And because there's different psychedelics, there's almost like a. Almost an infinite number of combinations of psychedelics for different purposes.
My son has struggled with clinical anxiety, clinical depression. At one point had a bipolar 2 diagnosis that they've since removed. But his depression and anxiety and even some OCD was so severe that he failed out of university because of it. It was crippling. At one point, he actually was hospitalized for about eight days. We've had a couple of different physicians have said that MDMA therapy would be huge for him, as would potentially ketamine therapy, but they were worried about psilocybin therapy, that it could possibly trigger something. So it's interesting to understand how these different modalities can serve different purposes. For sure.