MDMA and the Inner Healer

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Craig Heacock MD

Psychiatry, Bipolar, Suicide, Depression, Ketamine, Psychotherapy, Science, Psychedelics, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Medicine, Psychology, Mental Health

4.8 • 452 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

After a nightmarish sexual assault at age 15, Mitch's life felt over. Wracked by daily dread, panic, and a desperate longing to die, he eventually found his way 22 years later to the MAPS trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for severe PTSD. In this astonishing account, Mitch describes how MDMA was able to reactivate his innate healing intelligence to allow him to go directly into the hottest fires of his trauma with a powerful shield of openness, safety, self-compassion, and trust. Mitch des...

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0:00.0	Names and some details have been changed in these stories to maintain confidentiality.
0:14.0	Welcome to Back from the Abyss. I'm Dr. Craig Hecock. In this, the 20th episode of Back from the Abyss, I'm going to make my first ask,
0:23.6	not for money or credit card numbers or paywall subscriptions, or for your firstborn or for
0:30.1	your left kidney, but for each of you who are finding meaning or hope in these stories
0:35.3	to tell one friend or family member about this podcast
0:38.8	or to make one posting on your social media account.
0:43.5	For if each of you brought just one listener to BFTA, our audience would double.
0:48.5	And if each of you shared these stories with two people that would triple our reach,
0:52.4	and right now, that would be just about the best gift that you, our listeners, could give back to us.
0:59.5	Before I introduce this episode, I want to give a special thanks to Chris Johnson,
1:04.4	my Back from the Abyss co-conspirator and sound guy.
1:08.0	Now, normally, I do all the content, Chris does all the music and sound. But for this
1:12.6	episode, I asked Chris to help with the content editing. He cut one of my favorite parts because he
1:19.7	pointed out, dude, it doesn't really fit in with the flow of the story. And he was absolutely right.
1:27.2	Back from the Abyss is all about the stories. We are not
1:30.9	an interview show or talk show. We are a psychiatric storytelling podcast. And anything that gets in the way of the
1:37.5	stories has to go. So thank you, Chris, for keeping me on track, not just in this episode, but through this whole project.
1:45.0	Each of these 20 episodes has been one of my babies. I've loved everyone. Well, in different ways for different reasons.
1:54.0	But this episode might be the most important release to date. As I mentioned in the first episode, I think of these stories as balloons of hope that we're
2:03.6	releasing out into the world, not knowing how far they will travel or who they might reach,
2:08.6	but knowing that each one could change someone forever.
2:12.6	If this episode were an actual balloon, it would be huge, maybe 20 stories tall, with Christmas lights
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