Comments on: PTSD Treated With Ecstasy (MDMA)

By: Ayme

Ayme — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:47:03 +0000

I am with Alissa and Dee… MDMA is powerful substance that carries it’s own dangers, physical emotional and mental. I’m sorry, but the lack of information here is irresponsible… As a substance abuse counselor I find it disturbing that the negative side effects of the drug MDMA are not being made available to the readers with this delivery of an almost miraculous cure for PTSD…PTSD is a serious monster of a disorder that sometimes takes years upon years to even scratch the surface! Suggesting that a recreational drug may erase all of this is controversial at the very least, and possibly a death wish for some at the other end of the spectrum.
Maybe this article should discuss “the seriousness and challenges that come with” substance abuse, dependence and addictions.

Maybe the writer should be responsible enough to tell the readers about “the seriousness and challenges that come with” substance abuse, dependence and addiction.

By: Alissa S.

Alissa S. — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:17:11 +0000

Hello there.

My name is Alissa and I’m a 22 year old college student from Michigan State University. I’m currently in a Wellness Centre in Florida for 28 days working on my depression. We are doing art therapy tomorrow so I was doing a little bit of research and came across your site. I think your website is an amazing thing and I’m very excited to participate in tomorrow art. I’m not one to comment on random blogs about what I like or dislike but this website stood out in both ways. Your article about PTSD and MDMA(active ingredient in Ecstasy) Really really bothers me because of the lack of information and knowledge it presented. I experimented with this drug through the sad place that I have been and let me tell you, it is NOT ok to think that this drug is ok. It makes you feel on top of the world for that 4-8 hour period but after that, your depression is even worse. You used up all your serotonin for the next 14 days in that small time period. Where does that leave you? What any serious club goer knows, suicide tuesdays. It is a very very sad low place that nobody should have to ever experience. If whoever did the research on this article, did the research at all, they would know this. I really hate to sound harsh or hateful towards this, but before someone reads the snip-bit of that article thinks its ok to take ecstasy to cure their negative feelings towards anything, I really hope that it is removed and/or the information is corrected.
Thank you.

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:32:42 +0000

@maddog – 1-2 pills per day for 7 years now of mdma? i think you are lucky to be alive. your response is not in favor of medically assisted mdma research, it is actually going against it. i am surprised you do not have severe kidney failure by now. please try to think before you speak when trying to assist these articles that the public is seeing in regards to this topic. this is a VERY controversial subject and we should do the best we can to try to help the viewer’s interpretation.

By: maddog

maddog — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:48:17 +0000

I know it works because i have been self medicating for nearly 7yrs now and it works for me…..no i don’t get all loved up or any really way out effects it just levels me out 1 to 2 tablets a day.
It makes me feel relaxed and able to talk to people handle crowds and control my rage out bursts all the things that stop me from living a normal life,it makes me want to do things rather than sit on my ass and not bother with the outside world.
I think a lot more research should be done into this as i started taking it after reading at length a case on the internet about a american guy(ex police) who suffered really bad but after taking MDMA it helped him so much that he got his life back on track.
The only thing stopping it is that the stigma of DRUGS so to speak but i have found that i get less side effects if any than i do with the drugs the doctor gives me so it has to be better doesn’t it ??