Broadcast excerpt·SAT, 05 SEPT 2026 · 05:37:43–05:39:42 SAST
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Yeah, no, thank you. And then the bocho on the WhatsApp line is asking: Hey, Clemen, please can you ask Dr. Solov there what is the risk of psychosis after consuming such drugs or being involved in the psychedelic assisted therapy? Well, you know, there's a kind of standard answer we'd give. So I would say that if you line up 100 people, one of those persons is probably going to develop a serious mental illness like schizophrenia. Now,
In the very same way, if you give 100 people, even if it's in a therapeutic place, psychedelics, one of those 100 potentially could develop a prolonged psychosis. So it's very low. But the secret is in the history, the family history, and that is not always evident. So I suppose it's about 1%. So 1 in 100. Okay. And for those who may be lost, when we talk about psychosis, what do we mean?
Okay. So psychosis really is, you know, people like to talk about out of touch with reality when they talk about psychosis. And what it means is that people who believe certain things that are not true, for example, their phone has been spiked, AI is spying on them, people who feel they're being followed and paranoid, people who have hallucinations, for example, voices that are saying bad things about them.
And people who are disorganized in their thinking. So that is a psychotic episode. And people whose judgment is impaired and people's sense of reality is very different from the person next to him or her who doesn't have psychosis. So it's important to understand that psychosis is a cluster of symptoms which creates an entity called psychosis. But psychosis isn't an actual illness, but it occurs in a number of different mental illnesses.
Also, it's a good answer. For example, if somebody has got sepsis and they've got a burst appendix and they're sick and feverish, you might find that in hospital at night they're feeling they've been kidnapped, that they've been replaced by somebody else, that the nurse is a policeman. That's also psychosis, but that can occur from a medical complication because of the chemicals that occur in the brain as a consequence of sickness. I see. So, where does psychedelic
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