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Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Ketamine vs MDMA vs Psilocybin

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

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The Effects of Ketamine on Borderline Personality Disorder

Ketamine, especially at psychedelic doses, totally dissolves you. You become part of the cosmic slop. I'm imagining that as they sort of reconstitute and their body and psyche comes back together as they're coming out of ketamine. Most people just feel a deep sense of relief. Like, I'm a person again with toes and fingers. It's almost like a reminder how unhealthy their psyche is when it's sort of dissolved and put back together. So I think it can actually make people feel much, much worse.

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