While the research on psychedelics as a treatment for eating disorders is in its early stages, several studies indicate promising results.
conditions above, there are no approved drugs that directly treat eating disorders, anorexia in particular. In the absence of tailored treatment options, perhaps it’s no surprise that a growing interest in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for eating disorders is slowly gaining traction.
Although increasingly understood as having a biological basis, the precise root causes of eating disorders like anorexia are still unclear, as is our understanding of how and why PAT may work in this context. As Natalie Gukasyan, Medical Director at the John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research emphasizes,"for PTSD potentially around the corner, the idea of PAT for eating disorders appears to be encouraging.
PTSD, substance use, and obsessive–compulsive disorder, treating eating disorders with PAT could be promising due to certain overlapping features and shared thought patterns with other related conditions. At the same time, however, there are still more questions than answers at the moment.Gukasyan further explains how certain factors are preventing our ability to draw any hard conclusions about how PAT could be an effective treatment for eating disorders.
In spite of limited research, success stories are still underway. Why this might be the case is perhaps better understood through the lens of experts like Sabina Pillai, Director ofFrom Pillai’s perspective, determining whether psychedelic-assisted therapy will be beneficial for someone struggling with an eating disorder can depend on a few important factors, particularly clientfor self understanding.
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