Ecstasy cure to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, ecstasy may be key to taming their demons.
An Ecstasy tablet. That's what it took to make Donna Kilgore feel alive again that and the doctor who prescribed it. As the pill began to take effect, she giggled for the first time in ages. She felt warm and fuzzy, as if she was floating. The anxiety melted away. Gradually, it all became clear: the guilt, the anger, the shame.
Before, she'd been frozen, unable to feel anything but fear for 10 years. Touching her own arms was, she says, "like touching a corpse." She was terrified, unable to respond to her loving husband or rock her baby to sleep. She couldn't drive over bridges for fear of dying, was by turns uncontrollably angry and paralyzed with numbness. When she spoke, she heard her voice as if it were miles away; her head felt detached from her body. "It was like living in a movie but watching myself through the camera lens,"she says. "I wasn't real."
An Ecstasy tablet. That's what it took to make Donna Kilgore feel alive again that and the doctor who prescribed it. As the pill began to take effect, she giggled for the first time in ages. She felt warm and fuzzy, as if she was floating. The anxiety melted away. Gradually, it all became clear: the guilt, the anger, the shame.
Before, she'd been frozen, unable to feel anything but fear for 10 years. Touching her own arms was, she says, "like touching a corpse." She was terrified, unable to respond to her loving husband or rock her baby to sleep. She couldn't drive over bridges for fear of dying, was by turns uncontrollably angry and paralyzed with numbness. When she spoke, she heard her voice as if it were miles away; her head felt detached from her body. "It was like living in a movie but watching myself through the camera lens,"she says. "I wasn't real."
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I'm happier just looking at the pretty pills. PTSD is a seriously rough affliction...if Ecstasy lets someone deal, then a fantastic use for the drug has been discovered. It sounds as though the "stuck" becomes "unstuck" and an impossibly difficult condition begins its cure. Isn't this what a drug is for?
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isn't it strange that so many so called "illegal" drugs are cures or even deterants for major disorders and diseases??????
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Docs use to prescribe these drugs in the 70's to their patients. The first psychotherapist to give it to his patients was Leo Zeff, 5 years before it became illegal and classified as a class A drug. IT was called at the time Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). It was first accidentally created in Germany at the Merck labs, but then trashed because of lack of funding. Then in 1950's whilst the German armies were looking for Psychotropic drugs it was dug up and re-funded at the same Merck Labs.
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Shell-shock rave, well I believe that the drug war is ignorant garbage and that organizations that find practical use for "taboo" drugs should definitely get more attention. Incredible!
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