By Jan Hoffman — 2016
Two studies used psilocybin to see if the drug could reduce depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The results were striking.
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CLEAR ALL
To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
The program Brushes with Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.
“Because it is possible to create—creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self…—one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”