Ketamine Treatment near Torrington, CT

Psychiatry Practice Specializing in Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Disorders Provides  Ketamine Treatment near Torrington, CT

Behind the walls of some lovely homes in Torrington, CT, live suffering people who are all too familiar with the confusion, angst, and powerlessness that accompany psychiatric disorders. Disorders like severe depression, panic disorder, bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, suicidal thinking, social anxiety…you get the idea.

Is this because these people live in Torrington, CT?  No. Of course not. It’s because psychiatric symptoms are everywhere. And symptoms that cluster and escalate to become psychiatric disorder are everywhere. Torrington is no exception.

Torrington, CT is the largest city in Litchfield County, Connecticut and Greater Torrington is the largest micropolis…get this! — in the U.S.!  But the thing about a micropolis is that there is no major city nearby… so people in the area have to make the most of what the largest town has to offer.

In most situations, those resources are plenty. When it comes to buying groceries, or changing your oil… even visiting the library… Torrington provides all you need to live a comfortable life.

However, what if your needs are severe and highly specialized?  What if those needs are centered on health problems that aren’t easy to resolve outside of a major metropolis and healthcare hub?  Let’s say you need a heart or liver transplant. In a case like that, you’d do well to travel to a city where you can have access to the best transplant surgeons for the sake of the rest of your life, right?

Or…what if you suffer from a severe psychiatric disorder and the psychiatrists and family doctors near you cannot find treatments that bring you relief…?  What then?

Do you just keep taking the pills, feeling more and more discouraged…even to the point of wanting your life to end…?

Please don’t.

Small Town Residents Do Have Access to Excellent Psychiatric Treatment

There is hope. A short hour’s drive away, ketamine treatment near Torrington, CT is provided with the most extreme and effective expertise known to date… at Innovative Psychiatry in South Windsor, CT. Using state-of-the-art monitoring and infusion equipment, your treatment is closely supervised by Lori Calabrese, M.D. Her expertise with ketamine treatment in matching your need with the right dose and most therapeutic frequency you need assures that your treatment is the best it can be.

Unlike ketamine treatment provided by various pop-up clinics around the country, where one-size-fits-all methods are the norm, Dr. Calabrese draws on her many years of practical experience treating severely ill psychiatric patients with ketamine treatment, to ensure the dose is enough to help bring remission, but not so much that could cause unnecessary side effects…and the frequency of administration is matched to your brain’s unique response so that you have enough of this extraordinary treatment to get truly better… but not a drop more than that.

Why Those One-Size-Fits-All Methods Are Unsatisfactory

Since ketamine treatment for psychiatric disorders has been emerging on the scene the last several years, people who have suffered without hope are reclaiming their lives again.

The result is that anyone who hasn’t received treatment that helps them feel so much better they can actually enjoy life again, build health relationships, and experience the energy and initiative that are needed to be happily productive, is still ill.

When doctors who lack the expertise to personalize the dosage, rate, and frequency of ketamine that’s necessary to bring an individual to remission, that person may or may not feel enough better to resume a productive life.  A little relief may be an improvement for awhile, but before long the patient can tell they still feel pretty awful. Their symptoms impair their ability to function.

For that reason, there are those who are treated at these clinics who feel quite a bit better, but the improvement dwindles over a few weeks. When that happens they feel compelled to go back to receive this expensive treatment again in a month or two.

Others report they feel better, but not great. The burden of the disorder still holds them captive, as if blindfolded, gagged, and shackled.

While it’s true that there is no medicine or treatment that brings 100% of people to complete remission, ketamine treatment makes most people feel so much better that they say they’re well.

Their doctor should be able to watch the patient’s response to the ketamine treatment and determine whether they need a higher dose, or a slower rate…or additional infusions…to achieve remission.

The patient should have a spring in her step, probably a desire to do things she used to enjoy, even the motivation to complete projects she has put off for years…she should feel fully functional.

Stress, Depression, Anxiety Cause a Breaking Down of the Connections Between Brain Cells

So why is ketamine treatment so effective, anyway?  Maybe you’ve heard of it, but wonder what all the fuss is about. So here’s what’s behind all the buzz.

Neurologic research has discovered in the last 15-20 years that the key to treating depression is not higher levels of serotonin.  Remember all the fuss about the time Prozac hit the news?

People even talked about putting Prozac in the city water, it helped so many people!  But, after awhile, disappointment replaced all the enthusiasm. Prozac  and drugs like it proved effective for only about 1/3 of those who were depressed, stressed, and anxious.

Eventually, researchers conducted a trial to measure the effect of ketamine on depression. And they found ketamine was surprisingly effective, and fast.

Fast forward to 2018. There have been lots of trials, testing, and tweaking. Experts from all across the globe gathered in Oxford, England this past March to share their experiences and data using ketamine to treat psychiatric disorders. 

Psychiatrists in private practice have studied alongside each other as well as neurologists and researchers to find the most effective approach to treating psychiatric disorders with ketamine.

It turns out that the connections between the brain cells are an important focus for restoring the brain to a healthy state. Ketamine turns on mRNA to switch on DNA to turbo boost brain-derived-neurotrophic-factor (BDNF). BDNF works like a rich compost proliferating the connections (synapses) and the branches of dendrites and dendritic spines that sprout off the synapse connections. 

How Does Ketamine Treatment Near Torrington, CT Work?

The whole idea is that stress, depression, anxiety and other symptoms wear down the signaling pathways in the brain. When signals can’t travel from synapse to synapse, the brain cells where the connection is blocked dies. Little by little the pathways break down and signaling throughout the brain is severely impaired.

The communication of these signals lights up your brain. But when communication stops…the brain grows dark… quiet…  depressed. The broken synapses resemble a forest after a fire has destroyed it. No pathways. Just charred and broken, dead trees.

To clear away the broken debris, and to restore all those pathways, requires ketamine. Ketamine restores the synapses, the dendrites, the dendritic spines (branches on the synapses) and lubricates the signals with glutamate so restore a high-speed highway in your brain.

Just one ketamine infusion may help a little, but even if it does, it won’t last. It requires six or more infusions to get a stacked effect that lasts.

This is where expertise comes into play.

To achieve the restoration you need and long for, may require a little more or a little less ketamine in the dose.  It may be that you need a slower rate than the average person to get the burdensome symptoms of the disorder to lift.  You may also need more than 6 infusions in your particular case.

And there aren’t that many psychiatrists who know how to make these treatment decisions. Hopefully more will train going forward. But for now, avoid disappointment.  Do not receive this life-changing treatment at the nearest ketamine clinic just because it’s close by.  

Look for the best ketamine clinic you can. Seek out the most expert ketamine psychiatrist available. 

You CAN get your life back. Live well again.

You can feel better and enjoy yourself.  It’s worth a short drive to receive the optimum results and enjoy your life again. After all, this is your life. You matter.

For more information about Lori Calabrese, M.D. or ketamine treatment for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders, call or email Dr.Calabrese.