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Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Craig Heacock MD

How do we find a way out of the darkest depths of despair? Psychiatrist Dr. Craig Heacock hosts a deep dive into powerfully moving stories of hope and healing, as well as topical explorations of psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychedelics.

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Treatment resistant depression: Ketamine vs ECT vs...

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2022/01/14

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Ketamine in context-- From substance abuse to...

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2021/12/31

Expectation, set, setting, dosage, and route of administration provide the context and scaffolding for psychoactive drugs. An IV morphine drip can make unbearable pain completely manageable, while IV heroin, which is immediately converted to morphine once it crosses the blood brain barrier, destroys tens of thousands of lives a year. A benzodiazepine such as lorazepam, when taken orally at sensible doses, can stop a panic attack in its tracks, yet snorting or injecting benzodiazepines, or mixing

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81:06

Conversation with an underground psilocybin therapist

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2021/12/16

As we are now coming to realize the impressive potential of psychedelics to treat trauma and depression, we also have to face the fact that they are still illegal. This reality has led to an explosion of underground therapy, a Wild West where anyone can set up shop as a shaman or therapist or healer and the buyer must beware.Some people are finding healing in the underground psychedelic world, while others are encountering ethically-challenged and/or naive underground practitioners who are causing

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66:50

Body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and embodiment

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2021/12/02

Body dysmorphia is the disorder of imagined ugliness, a type of delusional OCD that can lead to severe depression, eating disorders, compulsive body alterations, and suicidality. As a young child, Georgina was a "cute kid", not particularly self-conscious, and able to move through her world without undue pain. With the onset of adolescence, however, her self-image changed completely-- she suddenly found her face horribly ugly, she felt helpless and hopeless, and she frantically tried to

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61:18

Hold on to memories-- The aftermath of suicide with...

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2021/11/18

Doug Friedman, the co-host and producer of the podcast Your Mental Breakdown, contacted Craig last spring and said that he was ready and wanting to tell his abyss story-- that of his wife’s death and his journey of recovery thereafter. Doug has mentioned a number of times on his podcast that his wife passed away the same week in 2018 that he was diagnosed with MS… but the details of his loss are actually much more profound and heartbreaking. That’s because Doug’s beloved wife Kim, who was also a

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58:22

Doing the loving thing-- An exploration of marriage...

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2021/11/04

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When meds don't work: Diagnostic confusion, trauma,...

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2021/10/21

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The Secret Sauce-- Treating PTSD with MDMA

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2021/10/07

An amazing healing journey deserves a detailed post-game analysis and deconstruction. Here Elizabeth, a participant in the MAPS MDMA study, sits down with Craig and co-therapist Karen Cooper to look back at what were the crux moves and essential ingredients that shifted Elizabeth's PTSD into remission. BFTA/Dr. Hhttps://www.craigheacockmd.com/podcast-page/

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66:34

Craig and Antonio Sacre talk shop

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2021/09/23

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I felt the world too much-- On being a highly...

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2021/09/09

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Where did our son go? A family faces schizophrenia

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2021/08/24

Just after starting his career, Dr. H met Matthew, a middle school student in the midst of a horrifying psychotic break. Here Dr. H sits down with Meg and Phil, Matthew's parents, to explore their 15 year journey of grief, acceptance, recovery, and eventually becoming a source of support, connection, and wisdom for other families on this brutal and often deeply isolating journey.NAMI Family to Family

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The Quickening-- A healing journey through AA,...

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2021/08/08

12 step programs have helped millions of people, but they can't address everything. Randy got clean and sober and found a supportive community in AA....yet something was missing. He couldn't find peace, he couldn't connect in intimate relationships, he felt deeply broken and spiritually empty. It turns out that when Randy's little brother drowned when Randy was just 4 years old, his family became a numbed archipelago of grief, leaving him to grow up without the mirroring and

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68:31

Spiritual gaslighting

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2021/07/23

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40:34

Fishbowl #2-- Chris and Craig talk shop

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2021/05/16

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(Almost) Everything about psych meds... in under 16...

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2021/04/27

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All we have is now-- A psychotherapist faces mortality

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2021/04/13

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How healing happens with Dr. Hillary McBride-- Eating...

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2021/03/29

What's the special sauce of psychological and psychiatric treatment? How do we change, particularly in relationship with others? Here Dr. Hillary McBride, a psychotherapist, researcher, author, and podcast host (Other People's Problems) opens up about the details of her years of psychiatric treatment, what worked (often surprising!), what did not, and how she had to leave home to find a home in herself. Dr. Hillary McBridehttps://hillarylmcbride.comHillary's new book-- The Wisdom of

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82:47

Addiction treatment-- What works, what definitely...

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2021/03/13

How can we stop the heartbreaking and horrific spiral of addiction? Dr. Jeremy Dubin, the Medical Director of Colorado's Front Range Clinic, sits down with Dr. H to discuss their top five things that actually work....and the five factors which most predict jails, institutions, and death.Dr. H and BFTAhttps://www.craigheacockmd.com

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65:29

A superhero at night-- Lucid dreaming, opioids, and...

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2021/03/01

BFTA takes a wild ride with Colorado based artist, writer, and video producer Ian Jaydid as he tells his double abyss story of lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, REM deprivation and transient psychosis....which then led to the blissful but ultimately destructive salve of opioids and a life changing encounter with the African psychedelic Iboga (ibogaine). Ian Jaydidhttps://ianjaydid.comIan's novel Tripping the

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10:12

Why is it so hard to find a good psychiatrist?

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2021/02/09

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