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The OCD Stories

Adam Strauss - Comedy, Recovery and Psychedelics (Ep35)

The OCD Stories

Stuart

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8933 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

DISCLAIMER - This is an exploratory interview into the potential of psychedelics as a treatment for OCD. This is NOT a how to guide. If you take psychedelics, you do so at your own risk. 

In episode 35 of the podcast I chat with comedian Adam Strauss about his use of psychedelics as a potential treatment for OCD. We discuss the legality of it all and the future potential. Adam also shares the importance of acceptance and ACT.  Hope it helps.  

This podcast is also brought to you by nOCD: http://go.treatmyocd.com/theocdstories

To your success,

Stuart and The OCD Stories team

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys and welcome to episode 35 at the OCD stories dot com podcast. Now in this

0:06.4

episode I interviewed Adam Strauss Adam is an American comedian as well as

0:11.8

playwright I guess you could say.

0:13.2

He currently has a show called The Mushroom Cure,

0:17.8

where he does a kind of one-man show or monologue

0:21.4

about his kind of journey with OSTI and his recovery using

0:26.3

silocybin which is the main chemical ingredient in mushrooms or magic

0:32.0

mushrooms as they known on the street. So,

0:36.0

so Cyiocyb on a magic mushrooms is a drug in a legal drug in most countries

0:42.3

and you may think well how does this help

0:45.4

a CD so in 2006 I can't be the guy's name is his surname is Marino he did a

0:51.6

study with a few other people. I'll link to the study in the show notes so you can read it yourself.

0:57.0

And what he found was by giving people small doses of CELAIBon, he saw an improvement in the people with OCD.

1:08.0

And this was very encouraging to see.

1:11.0

Now people have used these who's and gens or psychodelics such as

1:16.6

i waska set aside and d.m. t.

1:20.0

san Pedro uh because they're all kind of natural, and they've been used for hundreds of thousands of years in tribal cultures to help people through their kind of mental struggles.

1:33.0

And I think this is an interesting thing,

1:38.0

so some of you may be a bit controversial about this

1:40.0

and that's good, it's good to be skeptical.

1:42.0

You know, I'm still skeptical of it.

1:44.5

I mean, I have no doubt psychodelics help people.

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