Will Van Derveer

What are my gifts and talents?

And how do I give those gifts and talents to the world?

So this is a really under-emphasized aspect of healing from trauma is getting to a place where now you're ready to deliver the goods of who you are in the world.

Very powerful.

I just want to add that I think it's one of those moments where you don't want to be the first one at the party, but you also don't want to be the last one at the party.

And there was a high-profile acquisition in, I think it was August of last year, when Gilgamesh was bought by AbbVie on the basis of a psychedelic compound that's called Brettosilicin.

So there are these early adopters, you could say, or people who are really willing to take a position.

And it's a bet.

You know, the person who's there first is, you know, obviously going to take more risk, but they also have more gain potentially.

I think it starts with the view that we talk about a little bit in the book that I've held for a long time is that anyone can heal given the right supports.

The example I used earlier of Charles going to the VA and trying to get a result and not getting the benefits from conventional care approaches illustrates the point that when you have the right supports, you can not only put your mental illness in remission, but you can also grow out of it and become a really productive contributor to society.

Most of mental health care is really just oriented toward eliminating the symptoms.

It sort of stops at that point.

And what we're here to say and what I think psychedelic therapy done well represents is the opportunity to not just eliminate symptoms, but to be more well than you were before you encountered these troubles in the first place.