A former Ranger describes his struggle with PTSD and depression after military service, and how meditation with a mentor named Holm Nguyen led him to seek underground psychedelic therapy. He raises concerns about protecting the integrity of these healing experiences as access expands.
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When I did my first Ranger deployment, some of the Rangers were on like their 10th or 11th, you know, so these guys had been in it for a while. And now looking back, I mean, the entire unit had PTSD. And I got out and went to grad school, and that's kind of where the bottom fell out in some ways. By some measures, I was doing well professionally. I was at a good school and was getting good job offers, but I was isolating and I was really struggling. I was going through a divorce. I stumbled into this Mindfulness for Business Leaders course that was being taught by a guy by the name of Holm Nguyen, and he ended up kind of taking me under his wing and teaching me meditation. I think he was one of the first people that saw how much I was struggling. And then through that journey, I had the opportunity to have some professionally facilitated psychedelic experiences on underground.