{"id":27222,"date":"2026-09-10T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27222"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:13:03","slug":"just-one-question-matt-gutman-could-psychedelics-cure-my-panic-disorder","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/just-one-question-matt-gutman-could-psychedelics-cure-my-panic-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One Question | Matt Gutman: Could Psychedelics Cure My Panic Disorder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/cb21a98e-1b0f-4f0e-876b-326097584971\/embed?theme=dark-custom&amp;primary_color=%23F60F60\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could psychedelics cure a panic disorder? Matt Gutman went looking for an honest answer, and he brought a reporter&#8217;s notebook with him. This one crossed our desk and we couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matt is an award-winning journalist who has served as a chief correspondent at both CBS News and ABC News, reporting from war zones and disaster sites for more than two decades. In 2023 he published <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Time to Panic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an investigation into the recurring panic attacks he&#8217;d been carrying in secret \u2014 including the ones that hit him on live television.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Tami asks which of the substances mattered most, Matt draws a line before he answers: this was not recreation. Every session happened legally, on a couch or a mat, with psychiatrists, psychologists, or trained guides beside him. Then he describes what happened in the Sacred Valley \u2014 and what he can still reach for years later, in meditation, with nothing in his system at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Matt&#8217;s &#8220;mode of transportation&#8221; to altered states was a couch, not a convertible<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What 35 minutes of screaming on a mat in Peru let out of his lungs \u2014 and why his fellow retreat members cheered when it was over<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ketamine image of falling and being caught that he now returns to on purpose<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why the intense breakthrough turned out to be the easy part, and maintenance is the real work<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what these experiences actually feel like from the inside \u2014 not the headline version \u2014 Matt is an unusually careful narrator of his own nervous system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taken from the full <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> conversation with Matt Gutman. Find the complete interview here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/matt-gutman\">Conquering a Lifetime of Panic Attacks<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27223,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[170,242],"contributor":[1073],"class_list":["post-27222","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-insights-at-the-edge","tag-tami-simon","contributor-matt-gutman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Just One Question | Matt Gutman: Could Psychedelics Cure My Panic Disorder? | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Just One Question | Matt Gutman: Could Psychedelics Cure My Panic Disorder? | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Could psychedelics cure a panic disorder? 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