Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B2, field of study: Sciences humaines et sociales)

As a student in psychology, I have a few guidelines concerning the choices of my future job.
First of all I would like to be a therapist, then do some research about particular topics.
In the first place, I gained intrest towards psychology because of existential questions, which I try to answer thanks to philosophy, anthropology, and of course psychology.
My main intrest in psychology is to help people in needs. In my teenage years, I heard about psychedelics from documentaries. Then, I fell in love with this topic, so I learnt a lot from personal researchs afterwards to understand the therapeutic potential of thoses substances.
The etymology of psychedelic means  which makes the mind manifest . Those substances acts on a bunch of serotonin circuits in the brain, which induce high brain plasticity, neurogenesis. This helps to gain major insights. It can brings a sort of clairvoyance / lucidity, which patients describes as fullfilling, and help with inner peace.
There are still a bunch of research that needs to be done towards this subject, but we can take a look at the few cultures that still use those substances, and ask ourselves why and how they use them.
However those substances can also induce what we call  bad trips , those bad trips come from internal conflicts and might be the expression of resistance from insights. It can cause a severly felt crisis that needs to be supported by a specialist.
Those bad trips are very unpleasant indeed, but it might brings on the surface, what the subject needed to see, in order to gain those beneficial insights.
Afterwards the psychedelic experience, the subject may have reconsidered some old beliefs that might be the nerve of daily intern conflicts.
To wrap this up, psychedelics are drugs that can help gain insights, there are many hypothesis possible concerning their modality of uses in therapy, but it is imperative that the substance is carefully administered by a specialist in proper conditions.
Its this substances that gave me hope about a potential revolution in mental health, in which I would like to take part in the future. Unfortunately there are many stigmas all over this subject and it is quite tough to discuss about it with professionnals or politics in charge of the legislation all around it.
More recently the state of Paris in the Paris or even Paris, agreed to legalise the use of magic mushrooms (psilocybin). This helps with research and therapeutic uses.