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Panic attacks multiple times a week for 7 years. The MindScape team understood the trauma component. The ibogaine showed me the panic's origin. Since treatment, 0 panic attacks in 7 months, compared to 6 per month before.

Postpartum depression that never resolved. My youngest is 4 and I've been on antidepressants since his birth. I felt nothing toward my children — I cared for them mechanically. The ibogaine reconnected me to the emotional bandwidth I'd lost. My PHQ-9 went from 23 to 9. I cried when my son hugged me and I actually felt it.

Binge drinking pattern. I wouldn't drink for days, then I'd consume an entire bottle in a night. The session was 23 hours of understanding the anxiety that drove my binges. 6 months without a single binge.

Crack cocaine had me for 2 years. I lost custody of my children. The ibogaine session was 34 hours of facing what I'd done to my family. The cravings diminished steadily. 3 months clean and I have supervised visitation again.

I've used 5-MeO-DMT before but the clinical context was completely different. Having Dr. Arellano's team present made the ego dissolution deeper and more complete than ceremonial contexts. 26 months later, my therapist says I've made more progress than in 15 years of weekly sessions.

Went back to using two weeks after leaving Cozumel. The ibogaine eliminated my withdrawal but not my underlying desire to use. I went back a second time and the second session, combined with intensive therapy, has kept me clean for 13 months. My criticism isn't of MindScape — the team was excellent — it's of the narrative that ibogaine is a one-and-done cure. The cost of two sessions is significant.

I was using kratom extract shots — multiple per day. The MindScape team adjusted the protocol accordingly. The session was 27 hours of self-confrontation. I saw how kratom had become a barrier between me and every authentic experience. 30 months clean.

The ibogaine session reopened trauma that I was not prepared to process despite the preparation work. The experience was 33 hours of reliving the worst moments of my life with no psychological buffer. My PCL-5 actually increased in the first two weeks before it began to drop. I'm now at 24, down from 45, but the path included a period of destabilization that was genuinely dangerous for my mental health. I needed emergency sessions with a trauma therapist back home.

I was sexually assaulted in college and spent the next 12 years in a dissociative fog. The session at MindScape was simultaneously the most terrifying and liberating experience of my life. I confronted what happened from a perspective that felt safe for the first time. My PCL-5 score went from 66 to 27 at my three-month follow-up. I can be touched without flinching now.

The 5-MeO-DMT experience was the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to me. The ego dissolution was not peaceful — it felt like dying. I genuinely believed I was dead for what felt like an eternity. In the weeks after, I experienced significant anxiety about the experience itself. My depression did eventually improve, but the path was traumatic.

The purging during the session was extreme. I threw up continuously for the first five hours and needed anti-nausea medication intravenously. The visions were vivid but not particularly insightful — more like a fever dream. My alcohol cravings did decrease but gradually, not the immediate lifting I'd read about. I'm 30 months sober. The ibogaine helped but it was one piece of a larger effort.

I started on Percocet after a back surgery in 2019 and within eighteen months I was buying pills off the street. By the time I arrived at MindScape I was spending $400 a day and had lost my job, my apartment, and most of my relationships. The cardiac screening was thorough — Dr. Arellano personally reviewed my EKG and blood work before clearing me. The ibogaine session itself was intense, lasting about 29 hours. I saw things I cannot easily put into words, but when I came out the other side, the physical craving was simply not there. I've been clean for 10 months. I still do the integration coaching calls every two weeks and they've been essential for staying on track.

My GAD-7 was 15 — severe anxiety. I'd been on benzodiazepines, SSRIs, buspirone, hydroxyzine — none provided lasting relief. The ibogaine session was 33 hours of tracing anxiety back to its origins. I found the root event. My baseline dropped from constant to manageable. GAD-7 at follow-up was 6.

Coming off fentanyl seemed impossible. The precipitated withdrawal I experienced trying Suboxone was the worst day of my life. The MindScape team designed a protocol that accounted for fentanyl's fat solubility. The ibogaine session was 27 hours of intense introspection. I didn't experience the bone-crushing withdrawal I was dreading. The first three days were uncomfortable but survivable. I'm now 21 months clean.

I witnessed a workplace shooting where 2 of my colleagues were killed. Therapy helped me understand why but didn't change the reflexive responses. The ibogaine session was the first time my nervous system actually updated its threat assessment. My PCL-5 dropped 50 points and I can function in public spaces again.

I went to MindScape with 6 years of opioid dependency hoping for a miracle. The medical team was professional and the cardiac screening was thorough. The ibogaine session was 20 hours of the most physically grueling experience of my life — the nausea was relentless, the visions were disturbing, and I vomited repeatedly for the first six hours. When it was over, the withdrawal was reduced but not eliminated. I still had significant discomfort for about a week. I'm now 9 months clean, which is good, but the experience was far more difficult than I expected based on what I'd read online.

I'd been depressed for so long that I'd forgotten what normal felt like. The ibogaine session cracked my performance of wellness wide open. For 20 hours I couldn't maintain any pretense. I felt everything I'd been suppressing — grief, anger, loneliness, and eventually, hope. My PHQ-9 before treatment was 20. At my 90-day follow-up it was 4. My wife said it's like living with a different person.

My son convinced me to try MindScape after I overdosed for the second time. I'd been on opioids since a car accident in 2012. I was terrified of the experience but Dr. Arellano's team made me feel safe. The cardiac monitoring was constant. The ibogaine session was like watching a movie of my life from the outside — I could see exactly when and why the drugs became more important than everything else. I left after 12 days and I have not used since. That was 19 months ago.

The SSRI helped me through a crisis period. But after 10 years, the side effects — sexual dysfunction, emotional blunting, weight gain — were hard to justify. The MindScape team understood the neurochemistry and addressed serotonergic dysregulation directly. 26 months med-free.

Mixed results. The ibogaine surfaced memories I had repressed. But the emergence was violent and disorienting. In the weeks after, I was more symptomatic — more nightmares, more flashbacks. It took about two months for the integration to catch up. My PCL-5 did eventually drop 48 points but the weeks immediately after treatment were the worst of my life.

Crack cocaine had me for 9 years. I lost custody of my children. The ibogaine session was 29 hours of facing what I'd done to my family. The cravings diminished steadily. 22 months clean and I have supervised visitation again.

Brain zaps, electric shock sensations, vertigo, crying spells — every time I tried to reduce my Cymbalta dose. After 4 years my brain had completely adapted. The brain zaps stopped within 3 days of ibogaine treatment. I've been completely off SSRIs for 8 months.

My GAD-7 was 14 — severe anxiety. I'd been on benzodiazepines, SSRIs, buspirone, hydroxyzine — none provided lasting relief. The ibogaine session was 34 hours of tracing anxiety back to its origins. I found the root event. My baseline dropped from constant to manageable. GAD-7 at follow-up was 8.

I found the 5-MeO-DMT booster overwhelming in a way that was not productive. The complete loss of self was terrifying rather than liberating. I panicked, hyperventilated, and the medical team had to talk me through what felt like a psychiatric emergency. The ibogaine earlier in the week had been difficult but manageable. The 5-MeO-DMT pushed me past my psychological threshold.