589+ Patient Reviews

Anxiety since childhood, diagnosed at 16. Benzos from 20 to 31, then a long careful taper off. After benzos I was functional but the underlying anxiety was still there. The panic attacks kept limiting what I could do. Ca...Read more

The best description I have of my depression is anhedonia. Nothing was bad enough to act on, nothing was good enough to want. Eight years on various antidepressants, TMS twice, ketamine infusions four times. Each treatme...Read more

Started using at 22 at a party. Didn't know it was fentanyl until someone else overdosed at another party a year later. Three years of buying from dealers and not knowing exactly what I was getting. Two Narcan reversal e...Read more

Worked Vegas hospitality for 12 years. Cocaine was part of the culture starting around year three. By year ten I was spending two thousand a month and not sleeping more than four hours. Heart palpitations started. Every...Read more

Abuse starting at age six. Never fully processed, just managed. Alcohol in my twenties, then benzodiazepines prescribed for anxiety that was really undiagnosed PTSD. Four years in EMDR, helpful but couldn't reach the cor...Read more

Right knee crushed on a job site. Percocet for 18 months post-surgery. When the prescription ended I found pills on my own. Then OxyContin. Then heroin when everything else got too expensive. Eight years total. Lost my m...Read more

On escitalopram for 11 years. Started at 25 after a difficult period and never got off. Tried to taper three times — brain zaps, derealization, the return of everything I'd been managing. Each attempt ended with reinstat...Read more

Seven years on Suboxone for heroin dependence. The medication worked — I wasn't using — but I wanted to be free of the daily pill, the pharmacy runs, the insurance uncertainty. Every taper attempt produced withdrawal I c...Read more

Kratom for pain and anxiety management, slowly escalating to 30 grams a day. I knew I had a problem when I turned down a family vacation because I wasn't sure I could source kratom at the destination. Cold turkey attempt...Read more

A decade in emergency medicine. Compassion fatigue turned into something harder — I felt disconnected from my patients, from my family, from myself. Did psilocybin twice in a supervised clinical setting, helpful but didn...Read more

Scotch starting at 30. By 50 it was a fifth a day and I'd convinced myself that was just who I was. Two DUI arrests, a divorce, fired from a position I'd held for 18 years. My adult son gave me a choice. Liver enzymes we...Read more

Diagnosed at 61. The motor symptoms were manageable — the depression that followed was not. Three years in I was struggling to find reasons to plan ahead. My neurologist didn't have much to offer for that dimension. Foun...Read more

Nine years of depression, diagnosed at 24. Tried six antidepressants, CBT, EMDR, ketamine infusions. Things would shift slightly then fall back. Read about ibogaine for depression specifically. MindScape was candid that...Read more

Chronic pain patient for years on fentanyl patches. When those got regulated, I found street fentanyl. Two years in before I admitted the situation. Three hospitalizations, one Narcan reversal. My sister flew down from O...Read more

Two tours, OIF and OEF. Home in 2014 and immediately wrong — nightmares, hypervigilance, couldn't sit in a restaurant with my back to the door. The VA put me on five medications over three years and nothing stuck. Read a...Read more

Seven years of opioid use, starting with a back injury and Vicodin, escalating to heroin when pills got expensive. Three NA programs, two Suboxone attempts, one methadone stint. None of them touched the underlying need....Read more

On sertraline since I was 28 following major depressive disorder. Stable, functional, wanted to try managing without medication as I approached 45. Three taper attempts following psychiatrist-supervised protocols, each f...Read more

Twenty-year NP specializing in pain management. Developed fentanyl dependence from workplace access. The shame was on a different level — I knew exactly what was happening, had seen the consequences in patients, and coul...Read more

Spinal surgery at 42 that partially failed — the procedure addressed the structural issue but left nerve damage producing chronic radiculopathy. Ten years on opioids, the medication toleranced out while the pain remained...Read more

Opioid addiction resolved through a five-year Suboxone program — success story by any standard. But I was pregnant and couldn't stay on buprenorphine indefinitely. My obstetrician and addiction specialist coordinated a t...Read more

Trader, heroin by 34 after a surgeon prescribed OxyContin for a knee injury. The usual progression. By 40 I'd been terminated twice, hospitalized twice, divorced once, and was using daily in an apartment I could barely a...Read more

Bipolar II for fifteen years, well-managed for the hypomanic periods but the depressive cycles were treatment-resistant. Eight mood stabilizers tried over the years, various antidepressants carefully monitored for switch...Read more

Medical device sales at 29, cocaine at 31 when a colleague introduced it at a conference. For nine years the drug and the job felt inseparable — the energy, the confidence, the social ease. When I started using alone I k...Read more

Twenty-three years in corporate HR, VP level. Retired at 54 because I had to — couldn't access enthusiasm for anything, chronic fatigue that sleep didn't fix. My internist suggested burnout but had nothing specific to of...Read more