Mark Baxter

If you're not already getting support from a psychiatrist or psychologist, you likely won't be eligible anyway.

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So these are for people who are getting current treatment and the treatment's not helping them or sort of exhausted its kind of benefits.

The health practitioners will generally have colleagues that know about this and they'll be able to contact and put you in touch with people.

We can talk to other health colleagues about what we can advertise to other health colleagues, let them know, but we're not allowed to advertise to the general public.

It's not straightforward, unfortunately.

Yeah, one of the things that's happening, because people feel hopeful about it, but they can't afford or can't access these treatments legally, many people are going to underground therapists.

So that's just happening around the world at the moment, especially in America and Australia and other countries.

So just to kind of like, just want to give like a public service announcement, I guess, for that.

Just to know that there are adverse experiences people can have, that there's prolonged challenging experiences that people can have if they have a bad experience.

And it's not necessarily the substance itself.

You know, if the substance is a good quality and pure and things like that, they're generally safe if you don't have physical or psychological contraindications.

But the context in which you do it and the support in which you get and the professionalism which that's delivered makes a big difference about how you'll go.

So just say to anyone out there looking to engage in any underground experiences that

Really do your research, get feedback from other people who have been to that facilitator or to that group, talk to the facilitator or group.

If the facilitator is not, you know, finding out about your health history, if they're not asking about your psychological history, then that's a red flag.

If they can't answer, you know, reasonable questions about their health.

What's the emergency protocol if something goes wrong, for instance, or if you're struggling after the ceremony, you need support, what's their role in that?

You want to know all those things.