I watched a video recently on YouTube, an Adam Conover video about MDMA. How its supposedly going to get FDA clearance next year to help with Veterans PTSD. They discussed how MDMA brings the brain into a state of elasticity similar to children, which is what makes it easier to learn things like another language when your a kid. In a different source I read about how children with Autism can go through therapies that could significantly help, some pages specifically talked about age windows for those kinds of therapy. I believe this is due to the same Elasticity.
Would it be a stretch then for MDMA to have potential medicinal applications for helping struggling autistic adults? By restoring that elasticity and doing targeted therapy sessions?
Disclaimer, I am not a neuroscientist, just a struggling adult. Not telling anyone to go out an do anything, wanting thoughtful discussion.
Personally it just makes me emotional all around, not happy per-say. If anything I’d say it helps me to open up and feel sad, but in a good way. It’s like an emotional release. So I can totally see the use in therapy as I personally find it therapeutic already, even without a therapist.
I’ve not experienced any of the aftereffects that others describe either, but I know some of my friends say they’re always very down for a few days after.