581+ Patient Reviews

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

Serious rollover accident at 31 — wasn't driving, one passenger didn't survive. PTSD onset within weeks. Seven years of CBT, EMDR, and somatic therapy, each offering partial improvement. The hypervigilance in cars and th...Read more

Divorce at 38 and I used alcohol to get through it. Eight years later the amount required to feel okay had become concerning even to me. I hid it from my adult kids through careful timing. Two outpatient programs — each...Read more

Traumatic brain injury from a rear-end collision at 47. The acute phase resolved but cognitive fogging, chronic headache, and mood disruption three years later were not. My neurologist had tried everything standard — I w...Read more

Managing director at a Miami investment firm. Fifteen years of building something and then one morning I couldn't remember why. Not depression exactly — more like the complete absence of meaning. Psychotherapy for two ye...Read more

L4-L5 fusion at 39, pain management for six years post-surgery. The surgery was necessary; the prolonged opioid course was not. Every taper attempt sent pain spiking — whether real pain returning or withdrawal, I couldn'...Read more

Social anxiety from childhood, agoraphobia after a panic attack at 23 that humiliated me in a restaurant. For twelve years my world had been shrinking. Tried benzos (helped but created dependence), CBT, exposure therapy....Read more

Shoulder injury at the warehouse at 34. OxyContin for four months post-injury, then street sources when the prescription ended. By year two I was on fentanyl. Three hospitalizations, two for overdose. My mom and sister s...Read more

Paxil from age 22 after college anxiety. Three failed taper attempts, each producing protracted discontinuation syndrome that lasted months — brain zaps, electric shock sensations, severe rebound anxiety, depersonalizati...Read more