The next big trend in mental health treatments? Psychedelic therapy.

Magic mushrooms for your well-being? If you haven’t heard about psychedelics being used as a treatment for mental health disorders, this year may change that.

While this type of treatment won’t be accessible to everyone in 2022 (and will likely take a while to become widespread), experts say you should expect to hear much more about this emerging wellness trend this year and beyond.

“For a long time psychedelics have been sort of frowned upon,” says Amy Morin, psychotherapist and editor-in-chief at VeryWell Mind. “We thought that they were more recreational drugs, but with a closer look, we’ve seen they can actually be really good treatments for things like depression, anxiety, even substance abuse issues.”

Dr. Matthew W. Johnson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins and acting director of the Johns Hopkins Center of Psychedelics and Consciousness Research, has seen a gradual increase in interest around this area since he began studying it in 2004, but says there’s been a “dramatic increase in interest recently.”
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