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by mjbeswick 742 days ago
As someone who has take MDMA many times in the past I very sceptical about it's therapeutic value in treating PTSD. The high is incredible, but that comes with a comedown of the opposite feelings; including depression, anxiety, fatigue, and can last from hours to days. Those effects are of course dose dependant.
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AFAIK the point of using MDMA for PTSD isn't that it makes you high and happy and then you don't have PTSD - it's that it makes you high and able to talk about experiences you couldn't without MDMA. The therapy is a big part of the process.