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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

Yeah, and can allow them to have these kind of imaginal or symbolic experiences

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

of deeply meaningful experiences that can give them just a whole new perspective on their life or their challenges as well.

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

And so there's a little bit of talk therapy component there, but mostly it's kind of people going through an inner process of that.

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

So they look very different sometimes.

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

Yeah.

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

Well, people come with all their habits, their protectors, their coping skills, their lenses, their...

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

Everything.

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

Their armour, right?

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

And the armour's there for a reason.

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

So they come into the therapy room in a normal therapy session and you're kind of working with their armour as much as you're trying to work with kind of healing some pain or to see different perspectives.

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

But lots of armour work, whereas these substances can really change a person's ability to relax the armour and to get into some of the stuff that's around underneath all of that.

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

So that's where they can be really helpful.

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

Yeah, this is the long-lasting thing is where I'm really interested in.

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

That's a great question.

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

We don't have good information yet.

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

So just for the NDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, so the main results come out of clinical trials run by MAPS in America and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

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

So they've done a bunch of phase two and phase three clinical trials.

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

In their results, about two-thirds of people are coming out as kind of not having, not meeting the qualification for PTSD anymore.

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

So what we would see is PTSD-free symptomatically.

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

You know, a further third are having some benefit but still, you know, meeting the criteria for PTSD.