On October 8th, the Diaspora felt the tightening noose of anti-semitism – the response to an event that triggered intergenerational trauma dating back to the Holocaust.  BUT, we said – it is different because now, we have the State of Israel.  We rely on Israel to be our stronghold, and it always comes through. But the cost to its’ citizens is tremendous – both in terms of physical and mental health. As many have heard, the stories of severe and complicated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and suicides in Israel are horrific (many Nova survivors ended their lives in the months that followed the festival; more recently, on October 10, 2025, Roei Shalev ended his life after being tortured with images and thoughts for two years).     I am a Clinical Psychologist that has worked in Manitoba for 40 years and over the past three years have studied the use of Psychedelic Medicine in the treatment of PTSD, existential anxiety, and treatment resistant depression (the three disorders qualified for legalized Psychedelic Medicine in Canada).  After October 7th, I knew that these were the only types of treatments that would be effective for many of those who were exposed to the horrors of this war.  I met with […]