A Psychiatric Practice near Springfield, MA Offering Innovative Psychiatric Treatments like Ketamine and TMS Treatment

In the south central portion of Massachusetts, a few blocks east of the Memorial Bridge over the Connecticut River, lies the home of Horton the Elephant, of Horton Hatches the Egg fame. Horton shares his home with Cindy Lou Who, Thing 1 and Thing 2, the Cat in the Hat, and the Lorax…not to mention Dr. Seuss himself in bronze.

Ranked #2 on the list of things to do in Springfield, MA, Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden is nestled among the other museums of Springfield, and next to The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum. Oh the places you’ll go …  once you see the delightful legacy of Dr. Seuss for children and adults alike.

While in the area, don’t miss the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, for fans and history buffs — and then set aside at least half a day for Forest Park. Along with the zoo, Forest Park also holds the Aquatic Gardens, a place of beauty and tranquility to sustain you through the week ahead of bustle and stress.

However, Springfield, MA isn’t just a beautiful and fun place to visit. It’s also home to over 154,000 people…and the businesses and corporations they support.

But the fun shopping and wonderful dining available in Springfield doesn’t reflect the lives and routines of all the families who built the community and keep it humming.

Suffering in Silence

Neither do they expose the quiet suffering of those who suffer from untreated, as well as treatment-resistant, mood disorders. Psychiatric mood disorders have no discretion. They turn up to burden, torment, and crush people from every walk of life, and families from all socioeconomic groups.

From the wealthiest families to those buried deepest in poverty, from two- parent to single-parent families, from celebrities to the forgotten homeless on the streets, people from every walk of life struggle with depression.

Whether you suffer from depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, social anxiety, panic disorder, suicidal thoughts, or any number of other mood and anxiety symptoms, effective treatment can be hard to find.

Only about a third of all the people with diagnoses like these get better from traditional antidepressants and /or therapy.  Another 33% seem to improve after trying another medication or combination.

But about 33% of those who suffer from these mood disorders still have symptoms no matter what they’ve tried.

What about them…?  What about you?

Research Taught Us More About Depression

An important reason the results of those traditional treatments have been unexciting for the last 40 years is that those antidepressants are a treatment based on a faulty premise.

The belief that says to improve your mood disorder, your serotonin level needs to be raised…increased… and if it wasn’t serotonin, then it was dopamine or another neurotransmitter.

But neuroscience has made some exciting advances in the last several years that have led to promising new treatments that can lead to remarkable improvements in your quality of life.

If you live in or near Springfield, MA, and have suffered with depression, suicidal thoughts, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, or OCD, there are advanced treatment options to help you get better. Really better.

The most extraordinary treatment for patients with treatment-resistant mood disorders is IV ketamine treatment near Springfield, MA.

This medication has been used in surgical settings for 50 years with an established record of safety. But only in recent years have we known how remarkably effective it is for psychiatric disorders. Effective as in… like nothing psychiatry has ever seen.

IV ketamine is extraordinary – it can restore synapse connections in the brain, cause proliferation of these connections as well as restoration of nerve structures in the brain.

But Wait – Who’s Providing This Treatment?

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

Tools like IV ketamine treatment are changing the face of psychiatry with breakthrough results. And people everywhere are clamoring to get in on the act.

Anyone who thinks they can set up shop and offer ketamine is doing it fast. So you’re seeing these “ketamine clinics” everywhere.  They’re popping up like mushrooms after the rain. And since there is no real regulation on these treatments yet, anyone who wants to try it, is trying it.

Confusion About Who Should Provide Ketamine

Now, ketamine is an anesthesia medicine, and it does a great job putting people to sleep, and keeping them asleep for surgical procedures. It’s even listed on the World Health Organization’s list of Essential Medicines.

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 give it in the operating room.  End of story.

But it’s not that simple.

Physicians have a specialty for a reason.  They get very very good at their specialty, and they use the medicines they’re familiar with within their specialty to accomplish what they’re uniquely qualified to accomplish.

Anesthesiologists are experts at starting IVs, initiating sedation, and at life support in critical situations. No one can do it like they do. They’re the best.

But the use of IV ketamine treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and OCD, is a psychiatric treatment, even though it’s the same medication.

When ketamine is given for sedation, the patient is put to sleep. But when it’s given in tiny doses for  psychiatric  disorders like depression or anxiety, the patient is awake.

The delicate systems in the brain are sensitive, and can be stimulated to reactions to unexpected stimuli. When this happens, it’s critical that a seasoned psychiatrist deeply experienced with administering ketamine and treating psychiatric disorders is supervising the treatment and can respond appropriately for this patient. Suicidal thoughts a patient can’t make stop, various reactions of a disordered brain…

This is a world only a psychiatrist is equipped for.  In fact, this is the world they eat, sleep, and drink all their days, nights, and weekends. THIS is their second nature.

Lori Calabrese, M.D., is a prime example of this deep and seasoned expertise. Educated at Wellesley, Hopkins, and Harvard, she was trained at Mass General, then served on faculty at Harvard and Yale.

Her practice, Innovative Psychiatry, is not a pop-up clinic set up to “dispense” ketamine. But a state-of-the-art practice for patients suffering with the most severe forms of psychiatric disorders… who’ve not found help elsewhere…and she dedicated her life to finding relief for such severely ill patients many years ago.

If you need advanced treatments for depression, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, and OCD in Springfield, MA, seek out a psychiatrist who was the first to offer ketamine in the four state area, at Innovative Psychiatry. It’s a 90 minute dash down I-84.

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

A small percentage of people don’t respond to ketamine.

Not everyone is a candidate for ketamine, but if you are, you can be scheduled quickly to get help fast. 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,  OCD, depression, or bipolar depression that hasn’t responded to treatment, call the number below.

Call (860) 648-9755 and ask about advanced treatment options like IV ketamine treatment, or email info@loricalabresemd.com