Innovative Psychiatry
Don’t you just hate it? Hate the drudgery and pain of fighting an illness that doesn’t respond to treatment? Granted, there are some illnesses that you can find remedies for, and recover. Maybe a steroid injection, or an antibiotic, and you start noticing improvement in a couple of days. But not all disorders are like […]
I could use some of that. We hear that all the time. Relief, relaxation and relishing your life can sound so far away … but it doesn’t have to be. As word gets out about IV ketamine treatment for depression and other psychiatric mood disorders, more and more studies are emerging. New information is surfacing […]
Ever have somebody copy you? You know, try to be like you? Imitate what you do, where you go? try to get what you have? They wannabe like you. Well, maybe not just exactly like you — kind of like you and better than you all at the same time. It’s happening with ketamine. We’ve been talking […]
IV Ketamine and Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders After reading today about a beautiful young man – let’s call him Tom – whose life ended tragically at the crossroads of despair, I started thinking. Like many of my own patients, he had a wondrously warm and giving heart — and a compassionate heart the size of Montana for […]
“Special K,” a psychedelic drug popular in dance clubs, is being used to treat severe depression when nothing else works. Watch the video below!
PTSD Has a New Predator: IV Ketamine He’d seen active combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. His unit had grown close. Tight. Trusted each other with their lives. They’d cheered when word came that Jarrett’s baby had been born. They’d gotten drunk with Ben when his mom died. They had each other’s back, and knew each other in […]
Mother and Healthcare Professional Discusses Her Child’s Experience with Low-Dose Ketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression As both a healthcare professional and a parent of a child who suffers from treatment resistant depression and anxiety, I have been quite attentive to the changes that arise in an individual after receiving low-dose ketamine. I thought it would […]
Excitement about IV Ketamine Recently, I shared my perspective about the consensus statement released by the American Psychiatric Association’s Council of Research on Novel Biomarkers and Treatments Task Force. Their statement was about the use of IV ketamine for treating mood and other psychiatric disorders. That Task Force, in its consensus statement, assured members of the […]
Do you know someone who’s been listless and hopeless for a really long time? More than weeks or even months … someone who’s been taking antidepressants for years, and has never really felt better? Have you noticed how years of despair affects a person’s outlook so deeply that their personality seems to change? Clare’s story Take Clare. […]
JAMA: “Ketamine for Depression” Buzz The mental health community is all a-buzz about IV ketamine for treating depression and other psychiatric disorders, and for good reason. For the first time, people who’ve been treated without success for years are experiencing relief and enjoying their lives. For anyone who has suffered from psychiatric disorders without relief […]