{"id":32396,"date":"2020-08-16T19:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32396"},"modified":"2020-08-16T19:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:12:52","slug":"briefly-researcher-shares-results-of-psychedelic-treatment-for-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32396","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Researcher shares results of psychedelic treatment for depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve spent a tremendous amount of time over the last couple of years thinking and writing about love and connection. I\u2019ve come to understand that this lack of love and connection is at the root of a lot of human tragedy and unhappiness, including addictions and depression. As I talked with others and researched the psychology behind the issues, I ran into the surprising fact that researchers are increasingly using psychedelic drugs to allow volunteers to have experiences which are giving them a sense of connection which they\u2019ve lost \u2014 something that allows them to feel connected to love and God in a way they didn\u2019t understand before \u2014 which is having dramatic effects in combating things such as depression and addictions. In this 15-minute TED talk<\/a> \u2014 without an audience in the age of COVID-19 \u2014 Johns Hopkins researcher Mary Cosimano shares her experiences with\u00a0guided psilocybin sessions being used to treat addiction, depression and end-of-life issues.\u00a0One of her key observations is the importance of love and connection. She said that it seems love is literally part of the answer. In her role as director of guide\/facilitator services for the program, Cosimano is responsible for training and supervising session facilitators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve spent a tremendous amount of time over the last couple of years thinking and writing about love and connection. I\u2019ve come to understand that this lack of love and connection is at the root of a lot of human tragedy and unhappiness, including addictions and depression. As I talked with others and researched the Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8qw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32399,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32396\/revisions\/32399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}