Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alternatives to suicide?

Re:Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alterna... by bobosha on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:18AM (#35288638)

It sounds like you have PTSD. 20+ years ptsd sufferer here and none of the traditional medications made a dent. But psychedelic therapy did and it worked like a charm for me.

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has shown great promise, give it a shot.

- Look into Ketamine which is already FDA approved.

- Psilocybin, MDMA are all due for FDA approval. The clinical trials have shown high efficacy

and they are the best thing to happen for a very long time. Trust me, I have never felt better and it can get better.

dm me if you want to talk.

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Re:Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alterna... by needadvicebadly on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:21AM (#35288678)

I'm diagnosed with CPTSD and tried ketamine-assisted therapy for over a year. It certainly helped with awareness and introspection, but has done nothing for actual behavioral modification, sadly. Willing to give MDMA a try but afraid to go underground for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alterna... by bobosha on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:25AM (#35288739)

Psilocybin and MDMA has worked wonders for even the worst trauma. Please do try these therapies and there are many more on the way. Please don't give up. - a fellow cPTSD patient.

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Re:Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alterna... by needadvicebadly on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:27AM (#35288764)

Have you tried MDMA?

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Re:Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alterna... by bobosha on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:33AM (#35288826)

MDMA and Psilocybin have shown fantastic efficacy. Look up MAPS Trial for efficacy data, it's about as close to a magic pill for PTSD as one can imagine.

"MDMA was found to induce significant and robust attenuation in CAPS-5 score compared with placebo (P < 0.0001, d = 0.91) and to significantly decrease the SDS total score (P = 0.0116, d = 0.43)."

A p-value of 0.0001 is extremely good. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3

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Re:Ask HN: Trauma has broken me. Nothing has worked. Alterna... by Overtonwindow on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:52AM (#35289096)

Ketamine is amazing. I went through a period of severe depression and suicidal thoughts. Psilocybin was the start, but ketamine was the cure.

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