Ketamine treatment for depression: Seven questions
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
07/24/19
•16m
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This mini-episode explores some of the most frequently asked questions about ketamine:
•What is ketamine?
•How does it work?
•Who responds best to ketamine?
•What is the ketamine experience like?
•What is the best way to do ketamine treatments?
•What are the side effects/risks?
•Who definitely shouldn't do ketamine?
Interview with Dr. H about ketamine on Rural Emergency Medicine podcast
https://www.ruralem.org/2019/03/07/episode-17-ketamine-revisited/
Dr. H and Back from the Abyss
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
Previous Episode
Chris successfully hid his increasingly severe depression throughout middle and high school, but by his first year of college he could no longer ignore the horrifying signs that his brain was losing touch with reality. Inanimate objects began to radiate into his thoughts, and suicide seemed the only way to escape. Fortunately Chris took the scariest leap of all and began to open up to a therapist about what was happening in his mind, leading to an exploration of shame, a reformulation of the self, and finally the unexpectedly powerful healing of ketamine.
Dr. H interview-- "Recognizing psychosis", on Rural Emergency Med podcast
https://www.ruralem.org/2019/03/31/episode-18-recognizing-psychosis/
Ketamine resources/information
https://www.kriyainstitute.com
Links-- Delaying treatment leads to worsening and more difficult to treat depressive, bipolar, and psychotic illness
https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201233
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608308/
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/cfaa-oyd022318.php
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/systems/early-intervention-in-psychosis/outcomes-in-first-episode-manic-psychosis/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996412004987
Dr. H and Back from the Abyss
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
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•21m
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Links
Harm reduction
https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-6-35
Marijuana and cognition
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037578/
Suboxone/buprenorphine
https://www.samhsa.gov/medication-assisted-treatment/treatment/buprenorphine
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/20/15937896/medication-assisted-treatment-methadone-buprenorphine-naltrexone
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