581+ Patient Reviews

Heroin addiction from 22 to 32, methadone clinic from 32 to 41. Stable, employed, functional — but still dependent on the clinic and the daily logistics. My partner wanted to move abroad for work. The clinic wouldn't be...Read more

Tremor diagnosis at 62, confirmed Parkinson's at 63. My neurologist managed the motor symptoms effectively but the emotional dimension — the grief, the loss of identity, the daily awareness of progression — wasn't part o...Read more

Cannabis and alcohol from 17. Cocaine in my mid-twenties working in promotions. Prescription Adderall through my thirties. Opioids after knee surgery at 42. Never saw myself as an addict — each substance had a justificat...Read more

Fibromyalgia diagnosis at 31. Kratom suggested in a fibromyalgia forum as a non-prescription option. Six years later I was at 35 grams a day and couldn't manage a 48-hour work trip without planning my dosing schedule aro...Read more

Paramedic for 18 years. Didn't recognize PTSD as the problem until year twelve. By then I'd been self-medicating with alcohol for four years and had isolated from my family. Worked with a trauma therapist for two years —...Read more

ER nurse for twenty years. Alcohol started as stress management in year eight. Twelve years later I was drinking before every shift and believed I'd hidden it. I hadn't — my supervisor had documented concerns for two yea...Read more

Roofer for 22 years. Rotator cuff surgery at 44, OxyContin during recovery. The prescription ended but the need didn't. Three years later I was buying fentanyl patches on the street. Narcan twice in one month — my wife c...Read more

Postpartum depression after my second child that technically resolved but left a residue — flat affect, reduced motivation, difficulty being present. Four antidepressants over five years, each partial. My psychiatrist re...Read more

Pain management prescriptions after a motorcycle accident at 36. OxyContin for three years, then the clinic closed and I was finding pills on the street. Heroin eventually, then fentanyl. Fifteen years total, four treatm...Read more

I worked emergency medicine for 15 years and something finally broke. The hypervigilance, the dreams, the way I couldn't be fully present anywhere. Tried everything the VA offered. My psychiatrist had run through six med...Read more

The accident that killed my best friend while I was driving has been with me every day for six years. The hypervigilance, the dreams, the way I couldn't be fully present anywhere. Tried everything the VA offered. My psyc...Read more

Paxil for 18 years. Made 8 serious attempts to discontinue. Each one ended with reinstatement because the symptoms were unbearable. I'm a pharmacist and understood the mechanism, which didn't make it any easier. Disconti...Read more

9 years of it. Started as wine that became anything available. I'd had two DUIs and lost my license. Did AA twice, inpatient rehab once, was on naltrexone for a year. All helped partially. Nothing held. My daughter sent...Read more

Kratom was how I managed anxiety and pain without a prescription. What I know now is that kratom acts on opioid receptors and the dependency is real. When I finally decided to stop I went through three weeks of acute wit...Read more

I'm a physician so I came with some background knowledge about what I was considering. Came for burnout that had become something closer to depression. The ibogaine portion was about 30 hours of intense psychological wor...Read more

My addiction involved oxycodone, Xanax, and alcohol in various combinations at various points, often simultaneously. 6 years of that. Polydrug dependence makes most treatment programs difficult because they're designed f...Read more

I was a functional alcoholic for over a decade. I'd been to the ER twice for alcohol poisoning. My doctor told me my liver was showing early damage. I borrowed money to come to MindScape, want to be honest about that bec...Read more

Started kratom for just to get through work days and within 8 years I was taking 20 grams a day just to function. The online forums told me it wasn't addictive and I believed that far longer than I should have. When I tr...Read more

Came for the combined ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT protocol, primarily for depression that wasn't responding to anything. The medical team spent real time on my history before designing the session. The ibogaine came first, ab...Read more

I came to Cozumel expecting the worst and hoping for something I couldn't name. The medical staff at MindScape ran a proper cardiac workup before approving my case. The session was 28 hours. Honestly brutal in the physic...Read more

As a nurse I told myself I had it under control. Functional addict for 9 years on opioids. Then my tolerance outpaced what I could afford and things got dark fast. MindScape wasn't cheap and I borrowed money to get there...Read more

Kratom at 35 grams daily for 2 years. I kept telling myself it was natural so it couldn't really be a problem. But I was planning every day around dosing, spending hundreds of dollars a month, snapping at people when I w...Read more

16 years of treatment-resistant depression. Tried six different antidepressants with diminishing returns. The side effects were often as bad as the depression, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, emotional blunting that mad...Read more

Weekend use that became daily over about three years. Meth addiction is different from opioids, no physical withdrawal in the same sense, but the psychological craving is relentless. Tried NA, individual therapy, medicat...Read more