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Yeah.
I think it's good.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because it comes at a cost for the individual, a big cost.
Like we said before, it would be great if we learnt more of this stuff or had more of an understanding earlier, but often it is a crisis.
But, you know, it's better for people to get treatment in midlife than to not and go through their whole life feeling discontent.
Is it worth touching on pharmaceuticals for depression?
And will the practitioner sort of generally work with you to maybe try and find a balance?
Because I'm not sure if people know, like the psychiatrist is actually a trained medical practitioner and then they do the psychiatry on top.
So they would generally... Can you explain, please, the difference with prescribing medication?
And also, I guess there's always new classes of medications being developed.
And like we were talking about, that compounding of the results together.
Is telehealth psychology becoming more available?
Okay.
That's fantastic.
Yeah, that's great.
Before we get to looking at the psychedelic treatment options, I just wanted to quickly touch on another condition that can be quite misunderstood as well, but quite debilitating for people, PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.
Can you please give us an understanding of what it actually is and maybe in what circumstances it develops, how it develops for people and why it can be so hard to treat?
Because like you said, it has such a flow on effect, even if people aren't experiencing the trauma in the present.