
Ketamine: wonder drug or dangerous/ineffective treatment?
(2-17-23) All of us search for better ways to control the symptoms of serious mental illnesses. Ketamine has recently gotten much attention. Steven Petrow, a journalist whom I admire, recently published an article in The Washington Post describing what happened when he took ketamine under a doctor’s supervision to learn if it would help ease his clinical depression.
Have you tried Ketamine? I’d appreciate you sharing your experiences on my Facebook page.
The psychedelic therapy is said to help many people, but some like me have scary experiences
By Steven Petrow, for The Washington Post, published February 12, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST
My ears perked up in recent months when I began to hear the buzz about ketamine, the anesthetic and hallucinogenic drug that has found a new market as an antidepressant.
Numerous credible studies have documented benefits, including that it is fast-acting, with patients sometimes showing improvement within a couple of days. And social and other media have featured doctors and patients describing it as “life changing,” with one user commenting that “I felt like a completely new person.”
For someone suffering from depression, that’s a tantalizing promise.