For most who suffer from treatment-resistant PTSD, the path to being well again can feel unreachable. This is what happened to WA mum, Kate*.
Kate got to the point where she was desperate for any relief and willing to try anything. That’s when she was introduced to the PAX Centre.
The Centre is a specialised mental health clinic where Kate was able to access MDMA-assisted therapy to treat her PTSD – and she says it cured her.
Kate shares her journey with MDMA-assisted therapy on The Briefing:
In a two-part special, The Briefing takes an exclusive step into one of the only clinics in Australia offering MDMA-assisted therapy. Listen to part one here.
Since 1 July 2023, psychiatrists have been be authorised by the TGA to prescribe products containing MDMA or psilocybin for use in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to treat specific mental health conditions.
Treatments are limited to people with mental health conditions that have been resistant to approved treatments. Psychiatrists must carefully assess whether the benefits are expected to outweigh the risks in those patients.
Kate shares how the treatment gave her a sense of peace “she’s never experienced before”.
“It was a beautiful thing. Was such a gift to be able to go to a retreat in your mind,” she said.
“I was physically unable to move. I couldn’t speak. But it meant that all those errant thoughts in my mind, you know, that constant little chatterbox in your head that might give you doubts and you know, all the anxious messages I was getting and all the rest of it, it just stopped, it just went away.”
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