Charming Town in Central Connecticut
Nestled into the heart of central Connecticut is a charming town southwest of West Hartford called Farmington, CT. This is a lovely little community of a little over 25,000. Farmington is home to the world headquarters of a handful of large corporations like the Carrier Corporation, OTIS Elevator, and Carvel.
With the same sort of rich history as other communities in Connecticut, Farmington was originally inhabited by the Tunxis Indian tribe. Then, in 1640, a group of residents from Hartford settled in the area. This makes Farmington the oldest inland settlement west of the Connecticut River.
The rich soil, the beautiful valley geography of the area, and its location along the floodplain made it ideal to the new settlers.
The Village of Pretty Houses
Steeped in historical tales, this community still showcases 17th century colonial homes along Main Street. George Washington passed through the area several times during the Revolutionary War, and called Farmington the “village of pretty houses.”
Though the local history goes back 400 years, day to day life in Farmington is the same as life in any small town. The daily commute, the school bus that picks up and drops off children, the Friday night football games… life is still a patchwork of routines perpetuated by families.
Psychiatric Disorders Isolate Individuals and Families
However, not all families in any small town enjoy health, happiness, and living the American dream. In a diverse town all sorts of challenges and difficulties exist. Not the least of which is psychiatric illness. And that’s a difficulty the average household really doesn’t understand.
Those who suffer with these illnesses often keep to themselves. Honestly, they almost hide to avoid criticism from those who don’t understand.
But the members of the Farmington community – like any other community – learn to ask questions, research google, and build their understanding of psychiatric disorders. By doing so, they provide support and friendship to those who suffer in isolation.
Even so, with support of friends and family…even neighbors… individuals with severe psychiatric illness need effective treatment. Living with severe depression, panic attacks, intense social anxiety, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, and suicidal thinking can be life-threatening.
So there’s the rub. Formulators for pharmaceutical companies create traditional medicines for psychiatric disorders on a false premise. The premise that says depression and other mood disorders are caused by an overly low level of neurotransmitters like serotonin and norepinephrine. That a medicine that can raise the level of these neurotransmitters would heal the disorder.
New Updated Premise for Antidepressants
Turns out, the premise wasn’t true. While neurotransmitters play an important role in communication between neurons, or nerve cells in the brain, this is not the central cause of depression or the other disorders.
And that’s the reason some people receive help from traditional antidepressants and others don’t at all.
Because the real problem is that depression, anxiety, and these other conditions wear down the “communication highway” in the brain. Wearing out and breaking down structures like the dendrites and dendritic spines that branch off the connections or synapses that link one brain cell to the next, cells in one part of the brain lose the ability to communicate with others.
The brain cell connections must be dense and prolific so the brain is illuminated, highly functional, and moods are stable and upbeat. Neurotransmitters help send signals from neuron to neuron. But if there’s no connections, the signal has nowhere to go.
IV Ketamine Turns Mood Disorders Around
So what can rebuild those connections? IV ketamine treatment.
IV ketamine treatment turns on mRNA which switches on DNA to turbo boost the brain-derived-neurotrophic-factor (BDNF) in the brain. BDNF is like a rich compost that proliferates those connections at the synapses.
By rapidly multiplying all these structures throughout the brain, connections charge forward to move signals from the prefrontal cortex to deep in the brain. And this happens not over weeks or months…but in hours and days.
Neuroscientists see this happen. So they updated the theory for treating psychiatric disorders.
And the drug companies work fast to find more compounds that are as effective as ketamine treatment.
This discovery changed the game in psychiatric treatment, and everyone wants in on the act. The world has been waiting for effective treatment for these disorders. And too many lives have been lost to suicide as the wait dragged on.
The Trouble with Ketamine Administration
So now, we see doctors of all specialties opening clinics to provide this extraordinary medicine that helps so many get better, when nothing could before.
The problem with that is that it’s still a psychiatric medicine. A seasoned and experienced psychiatrist still needs to administer ketamine – to treat the nuances of psychiatric illnesses and psychiatric crises.
You can see how anesthesiologists feel qualified to provide IV ketamine treatment, since they’ve been using it in surgical settings for fifty years. But in that setting, they’re providing sedation…and the patient is asleep.
However, IV ketamine treatment for psychiatric disorders is a psychiatric treatment, and when anesthesiologists provide it, they’re not prepared to treat the symptoms they’re administering it for or the psychiatric crises that can occur in severely ill patients.
Seek a Psychiatrist for Psychiatric Treatment
For this reason, find a qualified psychiatrist. One whose deep expertise in treating psychiatric symptoms and crises is equal to her expertise in using IV ketamine deftly through adjustments and adaptations of dose and rate to fit the individual being treated.
At this point, the majority of doctors providing IV ketamine are giving certain standard doses to all their patients at a standard rate. Or are not even using an infusion pump but rather letting the ketamine flow into the patient from an IV bag by gravity. This is a somewhat rudimentary, if not barbaric, approach but it may explain why their success rates are substantially lower than they could be.
And it’s the patient who pays the price.
Because of the need for close monitoring and expensive equipment and staff, infusions are expensive. Wouldn’t you want to get the best possible outcome from this investment, rather than just an average one? And you probably want the best outcome for the quality of your life and future.
Ketamine Treatment Near Farmington CT
Lori Calabrese MD is a highly experienced psychiatrist who specializes in difficult cases. She built her practice on the foundation that she’s committed to find solutions to stubborn treatment problems. Her full-service practice offers expertly administered IV ketamine treatment for those with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, and suicidal thinking in nearby South Windsor, CT. Depression treatments like ketamine are provided under her watchful eye and experienced judgment. Lori Calabrese, MD is Hopkins-educated and Hopkins- and Harvard-trained at Mass General. She served on the clinical faculty at Harvard and Yale for years.
She developed her practice to treat the most ill psychiatric patients. She’s a thought leader on the cutting edge of clinical psychiatry, and has been for years. She uses nutrients to enhance medications, checks necessary serum levels, works to strengthen the microbiome, titrates medicines to achieve the best results, works with patients and families, their doctors and therapists — all to help her patients get truly well. She develops more expertise in these areas all the time, studying and researching… with wonderful outcomes.
With the same dedication, she gets the same positive, even extraordinary, outcomes for her patients with IV ketamine treatment. And this calibre of ketamine treatment near Farmington CT – is available to you.
Innovative Psychiatry for Expertly Administered Ketamine Treatment
At her practice, Innovative Psychiatry, she consistently sees 80% positive outcomes in her most ill treatment-resistant patients. This doesn’t mean the patient improves by 80%. It means 80% of these severely ill patients respond to ketamine and many get so much better, they’ll tell you they’re well.
Symptoms gone. Restored initiative, motivation, and energy. Able to enjoy the little things in life, and build strong relationships.
Isn’t this what everyone wishes for?
Ketamine treatment near Farmington CT is available nearby using the most advanced and precise procedures. That means you may enjoy the very best outcome possible. You’ll find Innovative Psychiatry in South Windsor, CT just east of Hartford.
If you suffer with depression, suicidal thoughts, or trauma, and medication hasn’t helped, call us. You really can, and should, get your life back. You can feel better.
Call 860-648-9755 or email us for more information