MDMA can temporarily quiet an overactive amygdala so people with chronic anxiety and trauma can do therapeutic work to reset their threat response. The speaker describes people whose amygdala has been stuck on for a decade, causing relational problems and health issues rooted in childhood trauma.
If you are battling a lot of anxiety, MDMA will get that amygdala shut off. And then as long as you do work to re-pattern the triggers of the anxiety, on the other side of it, your amygdala goes back into more of its normal resting position, which is to come on and activate and take over and run the show of your brain and your nervous system when there is a real threat. But when it gets locked on, your nervous system is basically activated and stuck. And I've seen people, their amygdala has been locked on for a decade or more, and sadly creates relational suffering, creates health side effects. When you can decades of being disconnected from your heart and body because of traumas that you experienced in childhood, and Emine May can get you there overnight.
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