LSD Therapy (Final Blog) - Week 14 - Biochemistry
Lesson: Our Biochemistry and Cognition
Class discussion
I loved the topic of LSD in our class this week. I think the usage of LSD with patients suffering from schizophrenia is a brilliant idea. Individuals who have this condition are misunderstood greatly, and are completely isolated from the normal conversations and routines of life.
My grandmother has been suffering from schizophrenia for many years, and my family had decided to put her in a prestigious medical hospital in Korea. Though the facilities are top notch, and doctors are incredibly helpful for their many patients, the hospital/nursing home environment exuded an approach of suppressing many illnesses rather than to heal the patients from their illnesses.
If I had known that LSD was a viable therapy method, I would have introduced that to my family in hopes to allow my grandmother to feel freely connected and happy again. Just as how medical marijuana has become newly approved as way to treat anxiety and other mental illnesses, I hope that in the future, LSD and other psychedelics can be recognized for their healing properties and carry on the legacy that Albert Hofmann has left for us.
I'm so sorry to hear about your grandma. Mental illness is disease that affects not just the individual but the entire family. I believe that any exploration using psychedelics to improve the treatments for schizophrenia should be developed. We are already using pharmaceutical drugs as the primary treatment for the disease, so why be opposed to a different kind of drug therapy which actually involves the therapist as a guide?
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