Ketamine Treatment near Vernon CT

Connecticut Psychiatric Practice Specializes in Treatment Resistant Disorders and Novel Advanced Treatment Like Ketamine Treatment

When you feel sick and tired of feeling sick and tired… When you know you overreact far too often but have no idea why. And you feel justified for your outbursts of rage, but puzzled that onlookers stare, and get quiet…and watch you uncomfortably. Sometimes something is just wrong, but we can’t figure it out for ourselves. When you’ve taken medications before, but nothing has ever helped. When your closest friend suggests you see a doctor to get treatment… and you ask, “How do I find a really good psychiatrist near me..?” Lori Calabrese, M.D. in South Windsor CT, provides expertly administered ketamine treatment near Vernon CT and may be just the one to help get you back on track if others couldn’t.

When you live in Vernon CT, you can enjoy a town of less than 30,000 people southeast of South Windsor CT…that boasts the name of George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon. A town rich with history and interesting places to spend a beautiful afternoon.

Psychiatric Disorders Affect Everything

But, if you do suffer from symptoms like outbursts of rage, dark depression and listlessness, and perhaps emptiness and lack of energy… you probably wish you knew what’s wrong. Maybe you’ve seen your doctor, who referred you to a psychiatrist, but you still feel just as hopeless. And helpless. Maybe you wonder if life is worth living. Or you’ve had thoughts of futility, and wishing your life would end.

When your feelings follow this path, and you see no reason to go on… not to mention your doctor’s prescriptions don’t change anything.. well, bottom line, you need relief.

For some, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and anxiolytics can help…sometimes help a LOT.  But for far too many those medications don’t help much at all. As many as as a full third of all those who suffer from depression (and anxiety) have not been helped by any treatment.

And, their psychiatrists may seek other means of bringing relief, or they may run out of ideas and tell these patients they’ve done all they could. 

Ketamine Treatment near Vernon CT

However, a medicine has been emerging over the last several years that is demonstrating remarkable effectiveness with severe psychiatric disorders. Illnesses like depression, bipolar depression, social anxiety, PTSD, substance use disorders, and even suicidal thinking can be relieved with this treatment.

Psychiatry has never seen a medicine like ketamine, which was designed in the 1960’s as a dissociative anesthesia medicine. Until recent years, no one knew it had the power to treat psychiatric disorders.

Ketamine has been reliable and safe for 50 years. It’s been included on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines for war zones and natural disasters around the world.

But when it turned out that researchers found it also relieves depression and all these other disorders, restoring structures and systems in the brain in the process, ketamine suddenly became the best thing since sliced bread.

The most powerful tool for mood disorders ever seen.

And now, pretty much everyone who thinks they can offer ketamine in a tent or a storefront is doing exactly that. So you’re seeing “ketamine clinics” everywhere.  They’re popping up like mushrooms after a long rain. And because ketamine is only FDA approved for anesthesia, its use for psychiatric disorders is “off-label” so there’s no real regulation for those who use it for psychiatric treatment.

Now, amazing as all this is…there’s this problem.

This tool is changing the face of psychiatry with breakthrough results. And people everywhere are clamoring to get in on the act.

Since anesthesiologists have been using this drug for 50 years, sometimes they feel like it’s sort of… their drug.  They’re the ones who are trained to give it in surgery, and to respond if anything goes wrong. They have been for 50 years. End of story.

But it’s not that simple.

Doctors have specialties for a reason.  By focusing on one area of medicine they get really good at their specialty, and the medicines that become their tools to treat their patients become trusted to achieve what they’re intended to accomplish.

Like anesthesiologists, for instance, use ketamine for sedation, and know exactly what to expect from it.

Anesthesiologists have expertise starting IVs, initiating sedation, and providing life support in critical situations. No one has expertise like they have in these areas. They’re just the best, hands down.

But the use of IV ketamine treatment for depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, and substance use disorder, is a psychiatric treatment, even though it’s the same medicine. When ketamine is given for sedation, the patient is put to sleep. But when it’s given in tinier doses for  psychiatric  disorders like depression or anxiety, the patient is awake.

Unexpected stimuli can trigger reactions in the sensitive and delicate systems in the brain. When these reactions occur, you need a seasoned psychiatrist deeply experienced with treating severe psychiatric symptoms and with the nuances of ketamine treatment and to provide it. A doctor who can respond appropriately for your individual needs.

Suicidal thoughts you can’t stop, reactions to feelings, memories, even side effects of medicine… all results of a disordered brain…

Only a psychiatrist is equipped to provide a therapeutic adjustment, the right adjustment in dosage, rate, and frequency, to help you receive the best benefit from your ketamine treatment. In fact, this is the scenario they eat, sleep, and drink all their days, nights, and weekends. THIS is their second nature.

Dr. Calabrese, at Innovative Psychiatry in South Windsor, is an indisputable example of this deep and seasoned expertise. Educated at Hopkins and Harvard, she was trained at Mass General, then served on faculty at Harvard and Yale.

Her practice is not a pop-up clinic set up in short order to dispense ketamine. Rather, Innovative Psychiatry is a state-of-the-art practice for the most severely ill of patients who’ve not found help elsewhere…and her roots go deep.

If you need advanced treatment for depression, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, and suicidal thinking near Vernon, CT, ketamine treatment can be provided for you by a psychiatrist who was the first to offer ketamine in the four state area at Innovative Psychiatry, and is the most specialized psychiatric practice you’ll find. It’s a 10 minute dash up the road.

Her expertise – and  your results – are worth the short drive.

Not everyone is a candidate for ketamine treatment, but if you are, you can likely be scheduled within a day or two. And if you aren’t…?  Dr. Calabrese at Innovative Psychiatry has other tools in her tool box.

Reach out for the expertise you need. If you have suicidal thoughts that you wish could evaporate in an afternoon, or PTSD, social anxiety, or depression and bipolar depression that hasn’t responded to treatment, don’t give up. There really is hope.

If you’d like more information about advanced treatment options like ketamine treatment or Dr. Calabrese, call (860) 648-9755, or email info@loricalabresemd.com.