Hope is our New BPD Study

Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin

on the Treatment of BPD

University of California San Francisco

Sponsored by TARA4BPD

TARA4BPD is very excited to announce our sponsorship of a new study investigating

Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin for the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

conducted by the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division of

the University of California/San Francisco (UC/SF).  

Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, Neuroscape

Founding Director, principal investigator.

Neuroscape Psychedelics Division at UCSF is currently the most advanced and innovative program in the field of psychedelics research. This study will evaluate the efficacy of psilocybin as treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder combined with Mentalization Based Therapy. Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, director of the Neuroscape Division of UC/SF, is the principal investigator along with Elissa Epel, PhD and Gabby Agin-Libes PhD. They have the courage and creativity to deliver the breakthrough findings needed to bring relief from the BPD emotional pain and sense of isolation.

This cutting edge psychedelic study, sponsored by TARA4BPD, may be the most important, ground-breaking research yet to be done for BPD. It will be the first to focus on alleviating the existential distress, despair, and negativity that characterizes BPD mental states and perceptions. The Inclusion of Mentalization Based Therapy with psilocybin based treatment will help develop trust, connection, safety, and the ability to learn and reframe perceptions. 

The scientific community is highly interested in the clinical utility of psychedelics based on promising results from treatment of a wide range of intractable, transdiagnostic psychiatric disorders. They have dramatically improved quality of life, reduced existential distress and depression and seems to have an acute and potentially long-lasting impact on an individual's sense of identity.

Neuroplasticity can facilitating the ability to learn,

to reframe habitual modes of thinking,

to change the brain's default mode network (DMN).

This study will be life changing for those with BPD.

It will give them the opportunity

to improve their lives in a way that no other treatment thus far has been able to accomplish.

You have all been deeply impacted by BPD and, by now, know how BPD is discriminated against. It is the most neglected, stigmatized, and misunderstood of all mental disorders. You are aware of the constant pain, grief, and unhappiness the person you love lives with and have felt powerless to help. You realize your love one never feels safe, doesn’t trust others, and is trapped in cycles of self-destructive rumination. You can see the difficulty they have in experiencing positive feelings or in accessing memories of their own positive experiences.

TARA4BPD strongly believes that Psychedelics can reduce existential distress and dramatically improve BPD quality of life. We believe this study is the answer we have been searching for over the past 28 years. We recognize the strong need to improve current interventions for BPD and are dedicated and determined to do all we can to change this negative prognosis.

TARA4BPD is committed to raising the $1,500,000. needed to fund this study. Since our founding in 1995, we have never held a fundraiser. This will be our first fundraising effort, this one that really counts!

We need your help to make this happen. Can you see the possibilities it offers to actually "cure" BPD the way we do?

Please support this study. Let's give our loved one's a chance at a better life by doing everything we can to help make this study happen.    We are relying on your help for donations, large and small. Everyone can help!!



TARA will continue our educational work for families, empowering them to help effectively and learning to mentalize, in 2023.

We are introducing a new program for those with intense emotions emotional pain: It will discuss how the brain leads to behavior, and will introduce mentalization and discuss how it helps. No diagnosis is necessary to participate. This class is for those your loved one. They need to know!

There will be many new webinars and surveys to bring your experiences to the attention of researchers. And, we will bring you latest news from the psychedic world.

Please continue to help us, as you have done before.

It is because of your support that we were able to develop this potentially breakthrough BPD study.

Help us to continue to help you

With our warmest wishes to all of you for the New Year.

To Donate by check,

please make checks payable to TARA4BPD

or to TARA4BPD UCLA Study

Send to TARA4BPD #3. 23 Greene St, NY 10013