Ecstasy to treat PTSD: One woman's story
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Rachel Hope and her daughter at a park in West Los Angeles in 2011. Hope struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder for years before trying a controversial treatment: the drug Ecstasy. Editor's note: This is the second installment of a three-day series on the controversial use of the drug Ecstasy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. On Saturday, we met Rachel Hope and those studying whether the drug, or MDMA, is safe in a clinical setting. Here, we continue Hope's story. (CNN) -- Post-traumatic stress disorder begins as a natural response to danger, according to psychiatrists. Rachel Hope says her life had been the stuff of nightmares. She reached out to South Carolina psychiatrist Dr. Michael Mithoefer in 2005 after suffering the effects of PTSD for years and trying various treatments, to no avail. "My mom was 19 when she had me, and she was very ill-equipped," Hope said.
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| -0.0935414 | "MDMA reduced the fear response, so people could talk about the things that made them afraid or upset," he recalled. ... |
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Post-traumatic stress disorder begins as a natural response to danger, according to psychiatrists. Rachel Hope says her life had been the stuff of nightmares before she pursued an experimental treatment.
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