Cleveland Clinic participated in a national study to see if LSD would help people with generalized anxiety disorder. A year later, its three patients are seeing positive results.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mary Flynn has dealt with anxiety most of her life, having grown up in a chaotic household surrounded by alcoholism. Every medication she tried didn’t work. But she found another option -- psychedelics.
Dr. Brian Barnett, a physician with the Center for Adult Behavioral Health at Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital, strongly noted that LSD will not work on everyone to manage their anxiety. Barnett ran the Clinic’s LSD study and is co-director of the hospital’s Treatment-Resistant Depression Clinic. MindMed delivers “therapeutic potential of psychedelics and other novel compounds” to treat mental health, the company’s website said.and hospitals across the country for the study and is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to try to get approval for its version of LSD to be used to help with anxiety.
The paintings on the wall made Flynn feel at peace. The room also includes a couch, two chairs with cushions, a rug, pillows and headphones for participants to listen to music. Schwesinger said it was an incredible experience watching the participants feel so much better after the study.As with any drug, a participant could face a number of side effects, Bishop said.
“There have not been any suicides in patients receiving psychedelics in clinical trials, but we are watching for increases in suicidal thoughts or behaviors after treatment closely since there are some case reports of suicide attempts and suicides following recreational psychedelic use,” Bishop said.When Flynn began to feel the LSD dose, she said she saw the colors of the walls and objects in the room get brighter. The paintings on the wall appeared to be dancing.
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