Welcome to Back from the Abyss. I'm Dr. Craig Hecock. In today's episode, I'm going to do a

couple things. Number one, answer some listener questions, and number two, give an update on

ketamine, which I last touched on in the ketamine seven questions episode about nine months ago.

We've had a few people email us with their stories and asking, can I tell my story? I'm back

from the abyss. And the answer is, maybe you maybe can.

The number one thing is I want to do it live, if at all possible, or in person, I'm sorry.

So that would mean doing it here in my office in Fort Collins or possibly in Denver or if I could meet you somewhere else when I'm traveling.

But I think there's something very powerful.

And you can hear it, I hope, in the stories that when the storyteller and I sit in the same room, there is a

there's a tension and a connection and intimacy intimacy that you just cannot get on Zoom or Skype.

So for now, I'm trying to limit all these episodes to recording in person.

So if you'd like to tell your story on the podcast, number one, come to four cons.

Number two, yeah, we should make sure that you're a good fit.

And if, number one, it would be a meaningful and helpful thing for you to share your story

and if others might benefit as well.

So if you meet those criteria, please contact me through

Craighecockmd.com. We recently got a very interesting email, and it was multiple paragraphs,

but the gist of it was, can you heal from trauma that you can't remember, which I thought was an incredibly interesting question.

But let me just start with a little bit about memory. So here's a cool memory experiment you can do.

Think of some event in your childhood, something very funny or weird or profound or scary or sad or something

that each of your family members experienced and then go to them individually and ask them,

hey, do you remember what happened when we saw Shamu or, hey, when we were on that boat

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