I’ve learned very recently that all of the health issues I’ve experienced since I was an infant, are a direct result of childhood trauma, which then led to adult trauma. In September of 2017, I began using concepts and science that you made available and I have now been out of bed consistently for 11-months. By listening to your podcasts and amazing guests, after being in bed for 6-years, I was able to extricate myself from that prison. I’ve had 5 organ failures, multiple diagnoses, and a pontine brain stem stroke. D’Agostino many times about how you have already helped me save my own life. Let’s help make this treatment more evenly distributed. To quote William Gibson, “The future is already here - it’s just not very evenly distributed.” I couldn’t be more excited to share this film.Īnd remember as you watch: this is possible now. NOTE: Be sure to specify the following in the donation form (there is a field for this, as they have many initiatives): “Funds are restricted to MDMA phase 3 trials.” If you also decide that this work is important, please consider visiting to donate. In addition to helping launch this movie, I am supporting broader access to MDMA-assisted therapy in the USA and elsewhere by donating to, a non-profit dedicated to making this treatment available to those who need it (e.g., phase 3 trials, regulatory work, scholarships for low-income patients). Thank you for watching this film ( just click here to stream) and, if you find it as powerful as I did, thank you for sharing it or this post. This is also the first feature documentary to show actual therapy session footage (to our knowledge), to which the patients consented because of the incredible results they experienced.įilmed at the Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center in Israel, “ Trip of Compassion” provides a rare glimpse into a treatment process that can restore optimism and even the will to live. If you’ve ever felt held back, felt defective in some way, or felt that you’re not living up to your full potential, this film will give you hope. As you will see firsthand, if the therapy is well designed, true rebirth and transformation can happen in a matter of weeks and not years. “ Trip of Compassion” documents one unusual approach to healing trauma that might astonish you, an innovative treatment involving the psychoactive drug MDMA (commonly known as “ecstasy”). I would put myself in the latter category for reasons I’ll explain another time. Millions more have suffered from emotional and physical abuse but never get diagnosed. Tens of millions of people worldwide suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Why am I doing this, and why is this film so exciting to me? Everything I am doing for this film is 100% pro bono, and all proceeds go to the filmmakers. This documentary affected me so deeply (and immediately) that I flew to Tel Aviv, met the filmmakers, and offered to help launch the film digitally worldwide. The film had been broadcast once on Israeli television, but it wasn’t distributed or available anywhere else. I first watched “ Trip of Compassion” about six months ago, when I was sent a link to a private video. This post is about the most compelling movie I’ve seen in the last year. – Actual patient featured in “ Trip of Compassion” “I felt like I went through 15 years of psychological therapy in one night.”
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