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Annie's Psilocybin Therapy
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6 minutes and 35 seconds
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United States
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English
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Documentary
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Roslyn Dauber
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Roslyn Dauber
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Posted by:
eduardoschenberg on Nov 17, 2009
A short trailler of the ongoing cancer study with psiliocybin at UCLA, conducted by Dr. Charles Grob.
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- People in this country don't talk about death
- If I would talk about it, sometimes people go
- "Oh, be optimistic", you know, "don't talk that way. You're gonna be fine!"
- And you really need to look at it, and this is the perfect way to do it
- Annie's Psilocybin Therapy
- Specifically with the cancer study,
- we're administering psilocybin as a treatment for serious mental suffering
- Certainly, individuals with advanced cancer often have significant levels of existential anxiety
- I had lost my faith because of anxiety. I was just terrified
- I was so anxious that it was hard to think about anything else
- I was being irritable with my husband, Richard, when I was so anxious
- And that was a very bad thing
- She was irritable and we were both stressed out
- and that's saying it was her fault
- The dynamic of the interaction between us often led to quarreling
- We talked about my intention
- and my intention was to learn to control my anxiety so I could enjoy the rest of my life,
- because I was not enjoying my life. At all
- I'm there with the subject for the entire six hours
- We take a standard hospital room, and my research coordinator
- fixes it up with wall hanging and fabrics of weed,
- really create a nice setting where patients are kind of cocooned
- There were wall hangings and they brought orchids
- I was thrilled with that!
- And then I had one of my tankas, my favorite tanka right in the foot of my bed
- And I advise them to go as deeply as possible into the experience
- As soon as it started working I knew I had nothing to be afraid of
- Because it connected me with the universe
- It was very gentle, and there were people right there if I got upset
- everything looked absolutely beautiful
- I didn't see things that weren't there
- With my eyes covered I saw patterns and visions and sort of faces and things
- I thought about being involved with people I loved and about things I would do with them
- things I would help them
- I had an amazing spiritual experience so it reconnected me to the universe
- I was lying on this hospital bed
- and it felt like the bed had turned into a circle of hands that were holding me up
- And I was being supported
- They put an Ave Maria and for some reason
- that made me cry about what effect my death would have on my granddaughter
- and they all came over and they just put they're hands on top of my hands
- they didn't say anything, but they we're just there. And it was very comforting
- Every hour we check in, see how they're doing
- I had to get up and go to the bathroom and when I was washing my hands I looked into the mirror
- I used to have very long, curly hair. And people thought I was so much younger than I was...
- now I looked my age, at least. So I went back into the room
- and talked about that and we sort of came to the conclusion that
- well, yes, I looked older but with age comes wisdom and maturity and I felt ok with it
- When we came back
- it was like someone had put on a light bulb inside Annie's head
- She was literally glowing
- Also for a cancer study we're looking at the impact of our treatment
- on they're overall quality of life
- After that session Richard and I went to Hawaii and we had a lovely time
- You know, it wasn't weighing on my mind. I started chemo again and it went ok
- I mean like anybody else Annie has good days and bad days
- Some days, you know, you're in pain, you're noxious, whatever it is, form the treatment
- It's not easy
- and I really do believe that the psilocybin has continued to boil up her spirit
- I wanted to spent more time with the people that were important in my life
- And my relationship with my mother improved
- because I finally told her
- She was very antidrug, and I played a radio show I was on for her
- and we have gotten so much closer since I opened up that part of my life to her
- I don't look ahead us far, this summer I ordered plants for the spring, to put in my garden
- but I... I'm much more focused on this moment, right now
- What we did probably would have taken me years of therapy
- and I would recommend psilocybin treatment
- for anyone with a terminal or potentially terminal illness
- It's incredibly helpful, it's more helpful than any other treatment I've ever had
- subtitles: eduardo schenberg for www.plantandoconsciencia.org
- Psilocybin Molecule
- "Annie's Psilocybin Therapy" is part of the Medical Research on Psychedelics Documentary Archive Project
- for more information contact: rdauber@igc.org www.doc-jukebox.com


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