Sasha Stetsenko

@stetsenko78

Trans woman • Clinical psychologist · Certified psychedelic-assisted therapy specialist · Trauma & integration · Ukraine · Ketamine-assisted therapy

Ukraine

Joined April 2022

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Sasha Stetsenko

@stetsenko78

26 days ago

The first LSD studies in psychiatry began in the 1950s — including in Prague, behind the Iron Curtain. Eastern Europe was ahead. Then it all stopped for 50 years. Ukraine is now returning to where the region started.

stetsenko78's tweet photo. The first LSD studies in psychiatry began in the 1950s — including in Prague, behind the Iron Curtain. Eastern Europe was ahead. Then it all stopped for 50 years.

Ukraine is now returning to where the region started. https://t.co/Yl3Jjc0itT

Sasha Stetsenko

@stetsenko78

27 days ago

Our own body produces a psychedelic. DMT and 5-MeO-DMT — among the most powerful psychoactive substances known — are synthesized by the pineal gland, and traces of them are found in the human brain. A substance people are jailed for in many countries is flowing through your blood right now. The question isn’t whether it’s natural. The question is why we fear what’s already inside us. https://t.co/7L3sctiblC

stetsenko78's tweet photo. Our own body produces a psychedelic.
DMT and 5-MeO-DMT — among the most powerful psychoactive substances known — are synthesized by the pineal gland, and traces of them are found in the human brain.

A substance people are jailed for in many countries is flowing through your blood right now.
The question isn’t whether it’s natural. The question is why we fear what’s already inside us.

https://t.co/7L3sctiblC

Sasha Stetsenko

@stetsenko78

28 days ago

Ukraine has more fresh combat trauma than any country in Europe since 1945. We also have a mental health system that was never built for this scale. Ketamine is legal here — as an anaesthetic. Ketamine-assisted therapy exists — without a national protocol. Psilocybin and MDMA are illegal, and no bill has passed. So we treat war trauma with tools designed for peacetime, while the tools that work sit on the wrong side of a law nobody has revisited. I’m a clinical psychologist in Kyiv. I work in this gap

Sasha Stetsenko

@stetsenko78

29 days ago

Psychedelic experience and gender transition ask the same question: what remains when everything you thought you were is gone? Psychedelics dissolve the ego for a few hours. Gender transition — for a few years. Different speed. Same mechanism: first the loss of the ground, then the truth that was underneath it.

stetsenko78's tweet photo. Psychedelic experience and gender transition ask the same question: what remains when everything you thought you were is gone?

Psychedelics dissolve the ego for a few hours. Gender transition — for a few years.

Different speed. Same mechanism: first the loss of the ground, then the truth that was underneath it.

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about 1 month ago

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Sasha Stetsenko

@stetsenko78

about 1 month ago

Italy just approved its first trial of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Nothing radical — the US, UK, Switzerland, Canada and Israel have been running these trials for years. Australia already prescribes. Czechia legalized it. One by one, countries stop arguing and start treating. Ukraine's turn. Link in the comments.