Ketamine therapy is a very effective treatment option for many people who suffer from mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, and more!
Ketamine is especially a blessing for those who suffer from treatment-resistant depression – a condition where one isn’t able to manage their depression or other mood disorders with antidepressants. For more information on this, please visit our article – Supporting Treatment-Resistant Depression with Ketamine Therapy.
Ketamine offers a safer, more effective alternative that doesn’t come with a host of adverse side effects as most antidepressants do! Ketamine therapy is becoming more common these days, and it’s no wonder why – the results speak for themselves!
Below are 5 ways of how ketamine therapy can help with mood disorders:
Quick Relief
An incredible thing about the ketamine therapy method is that the relief you feel once you receive the IV infusion is almost instantaneous! You don’t need to wait for your good-feeling side effects for weeks or a month – like you do while on antidepressants. Since the therapy is conducted via an IV, it enters straight through the body into the bloodstream!
According to Scientific American, researchers have discovered “that it alleviated depression in a matter of hours”! Hours – Not days, weeks, or months! Can you imagine having a calmer, positive mood enhancement that quickly?
Fewer Side Effects
The main problem with antidepressants is the horrible (and often dangerous) side effects! When you choose ketamine as your therapy option, you give yourself a good fighting chance of avoiding nasty, life-threatening side effects.
Some side effects with antidepressants include feelings of suicide, worse mental health, dissociation, nausea, upset stomach, and so many more! Often antidepressant leads the patient to feel worse, and it can affect their day to day life, prohibiting them from carrying on the way they need to for themselves or their loved ones.
The last thing you want to happen when trying to manage your mood disorder is feeling worse physically and mentally, and like you can’t do anything – ketamine therapy helps avoid this. This way, you can enjoy the positive healing side effects and manage your mood disorder instead!
Please be aware that while ketamine therapy side effects aren’t nearly as bad as you can experience from antidepressants, some patients have reported feeling very dissociated and out- of- body with themselves, during the therapy. However, that uncomfortable side effect doesn’t linger long at all, and patients can go home the same day of their treatment once the side effects have dissolved.
Feelings of Happiness and Calm
Another reason why ketamine therapy is excellent for mood disorders is that it swiftly invokes feelings of happiness and calm – helping to heal the person who participates in it. These positive feelings help the person recover from any trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and more.
Can Help Mood Disorders Situated Around COVID-19
Could you imagine feeling calmer and happier during this very stressful time where COVID-19 is very prevalent, and where we have to practice social distancing?
Such devastation in our world, the loneliness, and change of it all pose a risk for mood disorders such as anxiety, depression, etc. Not knowing what our future holds and knowing how serious and life-threatening COVID-19 can be can certainly throw off our moods and can even alter current mood disorders already if the person isn’t careful! Ketamine therapy can also help with this – it can help carry you through the waves of it all.
Promising Results of Ketamine Therapy Gives Your Life Back
While we can’t promise that ketamine therapy is for everyone, or can heal you all the way, the research done on it has promising results for many people!
It’s my hope that ketamine therapy becomes much more common an option for people who suffer from mood disorders – so that they can get their life back! So, they can enjoy their life again and be their best self for themselves and their loved ones! Talk to your Doctor about if ketamine therapy is something that could benefit your mood disorder.
Keep safe and healthy, my friends!
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