Both psychedelic drug use and talking about death are big stigmas in the western world—but one dying woman wants to change that.
suggested that the drug is better at fighting depression than commonly prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors , which often come with a host of negative side effects like nausea, exhaustion, and loss of sex drive.
“People on the other end who are approving drug access never meet the patient and don’t know their story,” Verbora said. “I’m not a big fan of bureaucracy interfering between the doctor-patient relationship. That’s my bias.” Right now, things for Yokoi are not OK. She’s staring down the barrel of eternity and there’s so much that she’s afraid of. It’s that okayness, then, that she wants to get out of the psilocybin-assisted therapy with Field Trips.
It’s with okayness and anxiety in mind that she went into her first psilocybin-assisted therapy session with Verbora at Field Trips’ office in Toronto in August. The experience is not entirely unlike what you might find at a typical therapy session. First, she went into a comfortable room and was given the opportunity to lie down. Then she was given a weighted blanket, eye shades, and headphones. She also listened to music .
Yokoi began to move around and vocalize her feelings to Verbora. At one point, she began to cry as she felt herself struggling to let go of an undefinable sense in her body. Then it felt like all her “nerves lit up,” she said. “It was almost like there were little beings on my body saying that I needed to start moving.”
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