Christiana Musk needed MDMA-assisted therapy 20 years ago. Other women with PTSD need it now, she writes.
Musk is co-founder, alongside her husband Kimbal Musk, of Flourish Trust, a philanthropic fund dedicated to the healing and regeneration of humanity and the planet. She also serves as chairwoman of the Unreasonable Groupn a cold night in November 2001, I locked the bathroom door of a residential women’s trauma center. As I climbed into the bathtub and began to choke down a large bottle of pills, my phone rang. It was my mother calling to say she was worried about me.
Help is harder to find than it should be. There have been practically no innovations in PTSD treatment for more than two decades. But that, I hope, is about to change. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will soon determine whether to approve MDMA to treat PTSD. It is our best hope to help people who are currently struggling.MDMA-assisted therapy would be an entirely new model of care.
Although I am not an investor in Lykos Therapeutics, the company that is trying to bring this treatment to market, I philanthropically support several research centers that conduct MDMA-assisted therapy. I have witnessed the transformational impacts on participants. “Sexual trauma frequently keeps women locked in the cycles of shame and silence with no real hope of change,” says Kim Roddy, COO at Sunstone Therapies and a recipient of one of our grants.
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