Woman Regrets Seeking Underground MDMA Treatment for Her Trauma

In 2014, Rachel appeared on The Doctors taking part in a groundbreaking study using MDMA for PTSD. Rachel shares what happened after appearing on the show, including relapsing again. She got so desperate and sick she sought underground treatment and had a very traumatic experience. Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. David Rabin weighs in on why that might be.

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[SailorBarsoom]

So it isn't that MDMA therapy doesn't work, or that it isn't safe. The problem is that, since it isn't legal, you have to go underground. You might get the best therapists in the world, or you might get... something else.

The problem isn't the drug or the efficacy of MDMA therapy, the problem is that the law doesn't allow for follow-ups.

[dentellier]

I had the worst, most traumatic experience of my life during MDMA assisted therapy with a highly trained professional. A new and indescribable level of hell opened up to me that day. It was like six hours of being tortured and eaten alive by wild demons. This was three months ago. I have been having panic attacks and struggling with despair and an almost ever-present fear of losing my mind ever since (symptoms that I did NOT have before). If there are others out there like me, I would like to find them for support. I am still struggling every day to recover from this experience, and I often feel hopeless that I will ever be able to heal from it.

[FUu-qlkf]

She went to an ungrounded place and it was probably cut with something else. Besides, she was in a bad place before she went there. She have waited at least another week.

It's her fault she got into something that she knew nothing about. I wish her the best.

[airpods]

Why don’t you show underground medical success? Oh yeah cause you have an agenda. Like recommending opioids to patients. 😂

[tinytim]

screening then for patients would need to be like opiates. Past history of drug abuse and tendencies to really develop habits are notable contraindications

[brooo]

She went underground… Who knows if the “mdma” she took wasn’t just speed or meth. Title is very misleading

[lrwiersum]

Shit saved my, just me the medicine and the will to get better.

[kumulsfan]

"A maintenance, and it wasn't available" in other words: I became addicted to MDMA and sought out drug dealers. She obviously didn't learn anything from her sessions and now she wants to blame the MDMA, pathetic.