Ketamine Therapy

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Have you tried eating more vegetables and getting fresh air?

My best friend back home has been doing it a few years in a clinical setting.

Loves it. Seems to be working well for him.

Look here Panama Red, stop trying to make excuses for your drug use.

You should really watch the 80s commercials about this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs

I have heard of the prescription version spravato. Anyone here talking about that one being effective or off the street. I know it's a nasal spray but it can't last very long in the system. Curious how that works.

If it's anything similar to LSD I can see the theraputic benefit to it.

Devon Larratt, professional arm wrestler and retired Canadian special forces operator who did multiple tours in the Middle East, talks about his experience with ketamine therapy. He speaks positively of it.

Ketamine therapy is an emerging form of therapy. Although the drug used is the same as what people take recreationally, it’s not the same thing.

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. That means it allows your consciousness to become somewhat “untethered” from your physical reality. This allows people to experience things internally without being distracted by physical sensation. While it isn’t primarily a hallucinogen, there can be some mild hallucinogenic effects when taking ketamine in a therapeutic setting.

There are multiple forms of ketamine used for therapy- IV, intramuscular (a shot), sublingual troches (tablets that melt under your tongue), and Spravato (nasal spray).

To be truly effective, you have to have preparation meetings with someone who is trained in integration. That means a mental health professional who knows what ketamine does and can prepare you for your experience. Then there is a series of treatments (usually about 6) over the course of 2-3 weeks. Following treatments, the patient should meet with their integration therapist or coach to process the experience.

Ketamine works by increasing the amount of glutamate active in your brain. That works as an antidepressant. The real transformation is that ketamine triggers a period of neuro plasticity which simply means a time where the brain is able to more easily make new neural connections. This period of time is what makes the integration therapist so important in order to make the most of this effect.

It’s not magic, but it does seem that way when it works for some people. We are limited in the BR area in terms of availability but I’ve heard rumblings of a new practice coming soon to expand availability in our area.

My late SO was reluctant to try ketamine for her treatment resistant depression. After her accident, her mood suddenly and dramatically improved. My theory is she got some ketamine in her surgical anesthesia.