Ketamine Treatment near New London, CT

Psychiatric Practice Specializing in Novel Treatment: Ketamine Treatment near New London, CT

If you suffer with a psychiatric disorder…you know what a struggle it is for you to manage life with a psychiatric illness. If medicine has been no help, the search for effective treatment is probably all-consuming. That treatment that makes life enjoyable again, is a newcomer on the scene of psychiatry, which is ketamine treatment near New London, CT …expertly administered for best outcomes by Lori Calabrese, M.D.

In New London, CT it seems that the best life has to offer is readily available. Great food, luscious verdant parks, lighthouse cruises, the Thames River. But, if you have severe depression, you probably don’t have the energy to visit Fort Trumbull or the river. You may have phobias that may be a roadblock to even leaving the house.

Psychiatric illness makes living so difficult, just as cancer and multiple sclerosis do. The treatment available may help, but if you’ve suffered for very long it probably hasn’t helped you. Because if you could sweep these terrible symptoms away, you would.  Wouldn’t you? 

Symptoms like despondence, absence of energy, fear of crowds, constant worry, wanting to die…

You may jump when someone pats you on the back, your face suddenly white as a sheet. Maybe you live in a mess because it’s just too hard to get out of bed and clean up. You may be afraid to leave the house, and feel naked and exposed, when you attend a dinner.  It’s just easier to not go at all.

Psychiatric Symptoms Can Be Crippling, Confining, and Complicated

These are psychiatric symptoms and you can’t just “get over it.”  And yet, there are so many opportunities in New London, CT.  So you’re often invited to get out, eat lobster, see a live theater show, play on the beach at Ocean Beach Park…  But you. just. can’t.

If you’ve lived with these symptoms and have tried prescribed treatment that just didn’t help, you may feel that nothing works. That it’s hopeless. And if you have to live this way without relief the rest of your life, then you want your life to be short.  Very short.

Your feelings are understandable, but you are most likely misinformed. There are reasons those other treatments haven’t worked for you.  There are lots of people they didn’t help. Because the theory of depression treatment — those medicines were based on — was just that … a theory. 

But there is a medicine that’s helping far more people now. The hopelessness you’ve felt, the questions you’ve pondered in New London, can be answered now through ketamine treatment near New London, CT.

Psychiatric illness and treatment is probably the most complex known to man.  Why?  Because the brain is the most complex part of your body. Modern day computers with all their artificial intelligence look like a Tonka truck in comparison. The delicate systems and structures of the brain are already challenging to treat. Then, add to that the fact that each brain is individual, and you have a massive challenge to bring peace and order to the pain and anguish.

Ketamine Treatment near New London, CT Restores

But, an extraordinary medicine has emerged on the scene the last 15 years or so. And it breaks all the rules previously believed to hold the secrets to treating these illnesses.

Ketamine treatment does more than lift  your mood.

Ketamine treatment sets the disruptions in order, connects those connections that are broken, builds a strong network of connectivity that allows light, joy, and hope to enter your mind. What is disordered, it organizes with a healing order.

While it doesn’t fix everything, it treats most psychiatric symptoms you may suffer from and allows you to rebuild your life, your work, your relationships, and your enjoyment in life.

But there are a couple of  catches:

1. Ketamine treatment isn’t quite so widespread in its successful treatment of psychiatric disorders as some would have you believe. At least, not if the doctor who provides it doesn’t understand how to get the best outcome for you.

You see, ketamine is a powerful medicine, and should be administered by a doctor who understands it and how to apply it to your personal need. Ketamine treatment requires personalized medicine…it’s not a “one-size-fits-all” treatment.

The need for effective treatment is so widespread. And word has gotten out that ketamine is extraordinary, so ketamine clinics have popped up on every corner across the US .…with sketchy results.

Ketamine Clinic Operators May Not Know What Works

And there’s another catch.

2. If ketamine treatment is not administered with seasoned expertise, it’s effects don’t last. And that results in terrible disappointment for those who pay their hard earned money only to have to keep coming back for more every month or two.

Because the majority of doctors providing ketamine don’t understand its use as a psychiatric treatment, and use the same dose, at the same rate, for the same number of infusions, to every single patient. In their hands, ketamine is only marginally effective most of the time.

The result is that outcomes are not as complete and full-blown as they should be. Some reach remission. Others don’t. Some feel a slight improvement, others feel much better but for only a month or two.

To compensate for this odd array of outcomes, some doctors tell their patients they’ll need to return for a booster treatment every month. Unfortunately, that’s because they just don’t understand how to get the best outcome for each patient.

The administration of ketamine is not like a vaccination.  Everyone shouldn’t get the same dose. Not everyone should receive it at the same rate. And some people need only six infusions while others need 7 or 8…even 9. Because it’s the outcome that is the guide.

What a deeply experienced psychiatrist does that makes the difference

A seasoned psychiatrist watches the response of the patient during each infusion, and knows whether to increase or decrease the dose. Whether to speed up the rate, or slow it down. And he/she will adjust the number of infusions to achieve remission.

Unfortunately, there are few psychiatrists who have studied and researched ketamine for psychiatric disorders, watched their data and compared it with other clinicians and presented it at internationally, and have learned what to watch for. For the rest of the doctors and nurses who offer ketamine infusions, it’s a hit and miss transaction.

Try to understand.  This is a new medicine and everyone is learning. But the majority of doctors don’t realize they should be watching the infusion and their patient’s response much more closely. In fact, they really don’t know what they should be watching for.

As a result, there are lots of disappointed patients. Who only feel a little better, but not better enough.

Innovative Psychiatry Treats Patients with Psychiatric Disorders

Lori Calabrese, M.D., at Innovative Psychiatry in South Windsor, is a Harvard-educated and Mass General-trained psychiatrist who has specialized for many years in treating the most treatment-resistant cases of severe psychiatric disorders.

Her own experience, collaboration, and data has provided her with the deep expertise necessary to make treatment decisions with ketamine that help those who suffer most. Patients with severe depression, panic attacks, social anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, and suicidal thinking emerge from treatment with joy, initiative, the ability to invest in their jobs, their relationships, and their personal interests.

If you or your teen suffer from symptoms that haven’t been treated effectively with other treatments and you’d like to learn about ketamine treatment near New London, CT, or wish to meet with Dr. Calabrese for evaluation, call or email Dr. Calabrese.