Abraham says psychedelic therapy helped him make significant progress, but warns against portraying it as a miracle cure.
“We shouldn’t come into this assuming that all of our problems will be resolved. But life can be very much improved.”
Abraham describes psychedelic therapy as the “future of mental health care”.
Robin Daly, founder of the cancer charity Yes to Life, believes psychedelic-assisted therapy could also help some people cope with the emotional impact of serious illness.
He says a cancer diagnosis can leave people confronting questions about mortality, purpose and the future, and that psilocybin may help some patients come to terms with that reality.
“It’s not about going off into la-la land,” he says.
“It’s about being able to accommodate the fact, ‘OK, I’m in this situation, I have cancer’, but to put it in a much bigger context.”
While stressing that psilocybin is not a cure for cancer, he describes its potential impact on some patients as “revolutionary”.
He believes access should not be limited to people who can afford to travel overseas for treatment.