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Mark Baxter

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
958 total appearances

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Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

And they're all looking at it in a slightly different way.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So for Oregon and Colorado, for instance, people can access those treatment centers.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

But in Oregon, as an example, it's not people who have chronic mental health conditions.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

It's people who might need help with a life transition or mild depression or prolonged grief or some other challenge.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

Whereas in Australia, we're really targeting people with severe and persistent mental health conditions, so treatment-resistant depression.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

or PTSD that's been around for quite a while for someone and they've tried lots of different things before.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So the people we're seeing have quite a complex or enduring mental health condition and they've often tried many, many things over many years.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So by the time they get to us, they feel like they've exhausted different treatments.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

And we're seeing a lot of what they call comorbidities.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So it's not just PTSD.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

There might be anorexia that comes with that, or there might be depression and OCD.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So people are coming with not just one kind of mental health condition.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

It's often a mixture.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

Yeah, the important thing to say, and we have a hard time having this stick with people, which is it's psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

Now, what we're doing is we're combining psychotherapy with a particular compound that has certain properties, and I'll talk about the difference in the properties.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

That can create a non-ordinary state of experience that can allow us to work with a person in a way that we couldn't do in a regular therapy setting with ordinary state consciousness.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So we're shifting someone's state of consciousness so that we can make therapy more powerful.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So the drug itself is not what we're kind of really focused on.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

People get fascinated about the drugs and what do they do in the brain?

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

How are they doing this?