Ben Sessa
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244 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2018
last heard Jul 2019
Ben Sessa’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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None of these drugs cure the patient.
These drugs are treating the overlying symptoms.
The underlying cause is trauma and pain and childhood maltreatment and abuse.
So what psychedelics offer is the opportunity to do focused and clear and effective psychotherapy that gets to the root of the cause, gets to the trauma, and for the first time in their lives begin to resolve these issues that they've been a slave to for decades.
If you were to invent a drug to treat trauma, it would be MDMA.
It seems to tick all of those boxes.
And this is really as a result of its very unique receptor profile.
It's acting at a 5-HT1A and 1B receptors, which produces a sense of positive mood and reduction in depression and anxiety.
Acts at the 5-HT2A receptors, which increases creative thinking and allows you to see things in a new way.
It's acting at the dopamine receptors with a mild stimulatory effect, whilst paradoxically also acting in the alpha-1 and 2 receptors to slightly reduce the level of arousal.
And it has this incredible effect within secreting oxytocin, which is a hormone produced by the brains of breastfeeding mothers to engender a sense of positivity and attachment and bonding.
So in totality, these effects add up to this picture of a patient being able to
recall and access repressed emotional memories that normally are painful.
But in the MDMA state, they're not overwhelmed by the negative affect that comes from recall of those memories.
So if you take a patient with PTSD or addictions, they've spent the last 20 or 30 years doing anything about think about that now.
when they were eight years old and their grandfather came into their bedroom.
They'll do anything.
They'll take heroin, they'll drink, they'll self-harm, they'll attempt suicide, and they'll be maintained on all these medications that just keep the symptoms slightly suppressed.
But they will not go there to do that work around trauma-focused therapy because as soon as they recall those memories, they go into this dissociative state in which they have this multimodal sensory recall of that experience.
Now, what MDMA does is it...
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