Getting off Suboxone was harder than anything I'd been through in recovery. 6 years at high doses. The standard taper is measured in months or years and the withdrawal that comes anyway is relentless. I found MindScape t...
I was a firefighter for 18 years and the cumulative exposure caught up with me. My relationships were suffering. I was irritable, hypervigilant, unable to relax anywhere. Sleep was impossible without medication. A collea...
Ten years of depression, most of it managed but never resolved with a combination that stopped working. The medications kept me afloat but I never felt like myself. Flat affect, reduced motivation, going through motions....
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 34 hours. Honestly brutal in the physic...
17 years. I won't catalog everything I lost because that's not useful but the list is long. Three failed rehabs, two Suboxone stints, one methadone program. Nothing held. My daughter was 12 when she wrote me a letter say...
Fentanyl doesn't give you a lot of time. I knew that and kept using anyway. The withdrawal is what kept me trapped, every attempt at sobriety ended the same way. A friend from my old using circle was 18 months clean afte...
Effexor for 7 years. Made 7 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. Discont...
I'm a physician and I've been managing high-functioning depression for 9 years. Showed up, did the work, kept commitments. Inside running on empty. ECT wasn't something I wanted and I wasn't eligible for most trials. A c...
Social anxiety that had become disabling for 17 years. On benzos for years and then couldn't stop them either. Anxiety managed but not resolved, and medication side effects were their own burden. My therapist suggested r...
I came as a wellness client, no addiction history, for personal growth after a major life transition. The medical screening was just as thorough as I understand it is for addiction patients. They asked detailed questions...
Postpartum that became something else entirely and never lifted. One hospitalization that scared me into trying something different. My psychiatrist and I had exhausted most options. A family member found MindScape while...
Got into fentanyl through switching from heroin when the supply dried up. 6 years later I was using just to stay out of withdrawal. The sickness from fentanyl is relentless, sweats, restless legs that don't stop, vomitin...
I'm writing this for people who are trapped on Prozac and can't get off. Took it for 8 years and discontinuation syndrome was keeping me stuck. My prescribing doctor kept suggesting the symptoms were just my underlying d...
24mg of Suboxone daily for 11 years. The clinic kept recommending I lower my dose but every attempt ended with withdrawal severe enough to derail everything. I'd given up on ever being off methadone completely. MindScape...
As a contractor I told myself I had it under control. Functional addict for 13 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...
I came with no prior psychedelic experience. The combination protocol is thoughtfully sequenced. The ibogaine session is substantial on its own, about 34 hours of deep introspection. I had significant nausea throughout a...
Fentanyl doesn't give you a lot of time. I knew that and kept using anyway. The withdrawal is what kept me trapped, every attempt at sobriety ended the same way. A friend from my old using circle was 18 months clean afte...
I had some psychedelic experience before coming, mostly psilocybin. The combination protocol is thoughtfully sequenced. The ibogaine session is substantial on its own, about 34 hours of deep introspection. I had signific...
I came as a wellness client, no addiction history, for exploring my patterns in a medically supervised setting. The medical screening was just as thorough as I understand it is for addiction patients. They asked detailed...
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...
I'm a physician and I've been managing high-functioning depression for 8 years. Showed up, did the work, kept commitments. Inside running on empty. ECT wasn't something I wanted and I wasn't eligible for most trials. A c...
Chronic migraines that had become near-daily and 9 years of pain management that eventually became as much of a problem as the pain. I came to MindScape because I was opioid dependent and the pain was still there. They a...
10 years of treatment-resistant depression. Tried Wellbutrin and Lamictal in combination and still barely functional. The side effects were often as bad as the depression, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, emotional blunt...
As a firefighter I told myself I had it under control. Functional addict for 11 years on pain pills. Then my tolerance outpaced what I could afford and things got dark fast. MindScape wasn't cheap and I borrowed money to...
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