Does the news affect your mental health? What about if you have your own issues with past trauma and suffer from PTSD? Does watching reports of violence, especially with video coverage, make your…
A recent bright spot in all of this is the effectiveness of psychedelic medicines in reducing the risk factors for veteran suicide. Does mini dosing psychedelics reduce suicide risk?
This issue is a big part of why scientists are synthesizing similar chemical compounds with the goal of replicating the benefits of psychedelics without giving people a psychedelic high. So, do non-psychedelic psychedelics…
Psychedelic medicines are very effective in helping treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse disorders. A new study indicates that there is cognitive improvement with psychedelics that goes beyond these known effects.
What is the relationship between mental illness, military service, and suicide? Does military service make mental illness worse? Does mental illness cause military service to be more likely to result in suicide or…
A very basic part of all this had to do with investigating psychedelics and critical learning periods. One study had to do with giving MDMA to octopi and seeing that they became much…
The hope is that by identifying those individuals at risk for long-term, virtually permanent PTSD that treatment can be begun sooner with better results. For this to work, there will need to be…
What someone who has never served will commonly not understand is how stressful events that occurred during active service can stay with a veteran for the rest of their life. This is why…
One of the issues dealt with in research studies is how much of a psychedelic is necessary for treatment.
Going back to the 19th century and Sigmund Freud, the belief has been that suppressing negative thoughts does not get rid of them. Rather, the theory is, these thoughts sit around in the…