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Personal stories

First-person accounts from patients, clinicians and carers.


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A clinician's first session, in her words
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A therapist describes what it was actually like to sit with a patient through a supervised dosing session — the boredom, the fear, and the part nobody had prepared her for.

As told to Priya Nandakumar · 24 March 2026 · 6 min read