Innovative Psychiatry
How Can We Relieve Those Who Suffer so Terribly…? Mania goes way back. And the destruction it causes goes way deep. We’ve searched for centuries for a way to bring relief to those who suffer so terribly. Sometimes we in medicine go out on a limb, or strike a new path. Other times we fiddle […]
New Hope for Depression Mandy Oaklander Jul 26, 2017 For more, visit TIME Health. Every week, when Ian Hanley sits down with his therapist, he goes through a list of depression treatments he’s been researching online. The best-known treatments at the top of the list–half a dozen antidepressants and known combinations of those drugs–are all crossed […]
Is TIME Telling the Truth about Ketamine? In the most recent issue of TIME magazine (7/27/17), the cover story by Mandy Oaklander celebrates the potential of ketamine treatment for depression. While we’re thrilled to see ketamine’s remarkable benefits for psychiatric mood disorders broadcast to such a large readership – (26 million!), we’re concerned about misconceptions […]
‘I can stop and breathe’: the people taking ketamine for depression It has a reputation as a party drug, but some patients say it has transformed their lives after no other treatments helped. When depression takes hold of Helen it feels like she is drowning in a pool of water, unable to swim up to […]
Ketamine is being used as a cutting-edge treatment for depression, PTSD One in five adults — 40 million Americans — has a mental health condition, according to Mental Health America. Within that number, nearly 16 million people suffer from depression and more than 7 million are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. The two conditions tend […]
The Beauty of a Fresh Young Mind Your child is born beautiful, both fragile and strong at the same time, with all your hopes and dreams for her waiting to be fulfilled. She bursts through infancy, preschool, then her first few grades, and you discover she’s not an empty canvas waiting for you to paint…she’s […]
Let’s talk about anxiety…and phobias. I guess we all have something that gives us the creeps, or we’d just like to avoid, like snakes or spiders, or pet poop. But for some people, there’s a strong persistent reaction to that thing or situation to the point that it’s amplified far beyond the actual potential danger […]
Initial research finds fast, dramatic benefits for a vulnerable population By Jack Turban on July 18, 2017 Fourteen-year-old Nicole, whose name I changed for her privacy, told her mother every day for years that she wanted to end her own life. Between suicide attempts were more psychiatric hospital visits than she or her mother could count. She […]
MAY 02, 2017 Kenneth Bender A new consensus statement reviews preliminary evidence that the dissociative anesthetic ketamine (Ketalar, JHP Pharmaceuticals) can evoke “rapid and robust” antidepressant effects in patients with mood and anxiety disorders who were previously resistant to treatment, and offers considerations to facilitate appropriate patient selection and safe medication administration. The consensus statement […]
Life-Changing Email Wonder what it’s like to have a changed life from IV ketamine treatment…? Imagine opening an email that could change your life. Let’s say you’re an IT architect, or a chef, a kindergarten teacher, or a construction worker. And let’s say something happened … something terrible, terrifying, and painful. You might have caught […]