help cee change their mind

Hello. I am C. L. Polk, and I am looking for a way to heal.

 

If you've heard of the Averse Childhood Experiences Scale, I tick 9 out of 10 of those boxes (and the 10th is only technically unticked.) I got my first mental health diagnosis the moment I was considered old enough to get one. I have lived with trauma, depression, anxiety, and low tolerance to stress, and I have spent most of my life trying to do something about it.

 

Therapy? I know her. I kept trying different doctors, medicines, and techniques. Decades of this healing work has helped. I've come a long way, especially after finding a doctor who has shared my work for almost 15 years. He's the one who guided me from deep depression and near-total hopelessness to waking up one day saying, "I'd like to write something." I went on to publish a fantasy trilogy and a standalone novel, something I could hardly dream of. I won awards. I'm nominated for a few right now.

 

But problems I thought were handled came back tougher than ever. But he'd made some practice changes on his own, and told me about his work at the Newly Institute, where they treat people just like me. It's a month of intense therapy methods in a Monday to Friday daytime setting that includes multiple techniques to root and reset the default mode of my thoughts that see disaster and failure. We want to literally change what I say to myself in idle moments, and what I believe when I take on new challenges and experiences.

 

They use many methods, but the most important is psychedelic-assisted therapy with ketamine. I've been researching this for months and it's impressive. But it's not covered under our health care, so it's expensive. Five figures, expensive. And because therapy would be my job for the month, I need to come up with living expenses during the treatment.

 

So I'm asking for your help.

 

tl;dr: I want to go to the Newly Clinic to do psychedelic-assisted therapy for my treatment-resistant mental health issues, and if you want to help, I'm so grateful.