Hey Molly - Try psychotherapeutic MDMA for your PTSD! (Coming Soon!!)

Molly and Trauma Therapy

In spring of 2017, the FDA will be moving into Phase 3 clinical trial investigations of psychotherapeutic Molly (in its pure form 3.4 no amphetamine or caffeine cuts) with respect to alleviating symptoms of trauma and PTSD.  In phase two clinical trials of psychotherapeutically administered Molly (2014), 136 participants were treated including: veterans (marines, army and air force who served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam and Korea), police and fire workers exposed to 9/11 and sexual abuse victims.  Phase three of the research study will include 200-400 participants over the course of 5 years. 

Thus far, in just 2-3 therapeutically guided Molly sessions, there is much promise of removing PTSD and trauma roots from affected individuals, allowing for individuals to live and engage in daily activities without being a hostage to their trauma.  In 2-3 Molly guided sessions out of 12 therapeutic sessions, 83% of patients recovered from PTSD, in comparison to one-third of patients do not benefit from Trauma therapy and experience no relief from PTSD. By removing PTSD and trauma symptomology, one can create safe and loving relationships, experience happiness, and establish functional routines in their lives. When PTSD and Ttraumas are untreated, it is not uncommon for inflicted individuals to isolate and become reclusive and socially disconnected.

As observed in PET scans, when one experiences Trauma/traumas and/or PTSD, his brain structures literally change shape.   Not only are neurotransmitter levels affected (Serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine), but communication between the amygdala and hippocampus decreases.  These organic structural and biochemical changes make it difficult for an individual to experience safety, trust, empathy and connection.  As social beings, organic inhibitor factors make it more difficult for an individual to thrive.  

Without trust and empathy, trauma inflicted individuals can often read facial signals, tones of voice, spoken language, behaviors and other environmental variables as threats, when in fact they are not.  People who have PTSD can get easily triggered and alarmed from various associative elements that those without PTSD wouldn't perceive as anything "major." For that matter, person A with PTSD will get triggered by different things from person B with PTSD.  The important thing to be educated about and to realize with respect to Trauma, is that a person who has Trauma can easily become reactive and go into overdrive when they are triggered.  These trigger responses can result in attacking or withdrawing types of behaviors.

As one can imagine, an over-functioning nervous system and magnified social responses can easily lead a person to experience depression and anxiety.  Unfortunately, medications prescribed to assuage these secondary variables are not effective in terms of treating PTSD.

Not only are medications not helpful for Trauma manifestations, but even while under the care of a skilled trauma therapist, Trauma/traumas and PTSD are difficult to address and eliminate from the psyche primarily due to intense memory recall and the somatic activation response of an individual.

When the sympathetic nervous system gets activated, an individual can literally re-live and viscerally re-experience the trauma, resulting in further re-traumatization and feelings of hopelessness.  Elevated cortisol release imprints trauma memories in the mind more vividly than when cortisol isn't elevated.  If not careful, a therapist can quickly activate the somatic and mental trauma responses of an individual, resulting in deeper mental and somatic trapping of the trauma.  A therapist can even cause the Trauma to expand within the internal trigger map of the client.  Containers, breath-work, somatic signal awareness and visual imagery of safe places are often helpful processes to keep the client's biological change associated with traumatic memories and response recall from entering spaces of healing. 

While a good trauma therapist can facilitate the creation of a safe environment to eliminate Trauma and PTSD, the use of psychotherapeutic Molly provides a literal "chemical security blanket" for the client, such that traumas can be eliminated without reactivating the fight flight response.   MDMA decreases the visceral chemical activation associated with the recall of trauma thus allowing for an opportunity of safe un-activated healing to take place.  Molly actually reduces amygdala hyperactivity due to trauma, so that when an individual is in therapy recalling a traumatic memory, his associated emotional response doesn't go into "freak out" re-traumatization mode.   (Molly does not typically alter states or dimensions, nor does it produce visual-audio effects or hallucinations. It does not create interconnectedness, out of body and/or loss of self experiences).

It is so important to eliminate PTSD and Trauma/traumas from psyches, so that individuals are free to experience daily life without sensations that they are being chased by a tiger or caught in a cross-fire. Elimination of PTSD and Trauma allows for the transition of someone to move from a defensive life role to that of an offensive role.

As SSRIs and SNRIs are not proven to be an effective treatment of PTSD, a current mode of medication to alleviate PTSD symptoms is that of medical marijuana.  Medical marijuana helps to decrease deleterious social effects, increase empathy and aid in sleep.  Marijuana however does not allow for the root of trauma to be pulled.  Instead, marijuana deals with PTSD's secondary manifestations, which would be equivalent to the defensive player deflecting and or protecting his self (goal) rather than attempting to "score." (hahaha - not funny).

By 2021, it is expected for Molly to be integrated as a primary therapeutic method for treatment of PTSD, Trauma and traumas.