591+ Patient Reviews

The TBI from multiple sports concussions changed my life in ways I'm still adapting to. Cognitive slowing and depression that neurologists said was permanent. My family pushed me to try ibogaine after reading about neuro...Read more

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...Read more

I started kratom after getting off heroin because I thought it was safe. 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 ac...Read more

Alcohol for 16 years. The trajectory is familiar but living it is different from reading about it. I lost a business, a marriage, the trust of people I loved. I was in outpatient treatment when someone mentioned ibogaine...Read more

After waking up not knowing how I got there I didn't think I had much runway left. I weighed 129 pounds when I arrived. The staff didn't comment, just got me on IV nutrition for two days while running cardiac screening....Read more

I'd been sober for three years before a bad relapse that lasted four more. My kids had stopped inviting me to things. My doctor told me my liver was showing early damage. I borrowed money to come to MindScape, want to be...Read more

Kratom at capsules six times a day daily for 6 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...Read more

I started with prescribed patches after surgery and they became something else. Tried Suboxone twice and methadone once. They managed withdrawal but didn't touch what was driving the using. My sister paid for MindScape a...Read more

I worked as a pediatric ER nurse for 11 years. The PTSD had been running my life for years. Years of VA therapy helped some but never got to the root of it. A colleague who had done ibogaine for addiction mentioned MindS...Read more

The work accident was legitimate. I need to say that because I've been dismissed before. I was prescribed Vicodin for 11 years and the dependency happened gradually and then completely. By the end I was buying extra on t...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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....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 34 hours. Honestly brutal in the physic...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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 Suboxone completely. MindScape...Read more