Anyone has taken Ketamine therapy??

[Dreamer468]

My new doctor suggested about doing ketamine therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. He said that I have to know clearly about Ketamine therapy before taking it. I don't know anyone who I can ask about this. If anyone has done it, how was it? Can you elaborate your experience?

[designguy]

I tried it over a year ago and did 4 infusions of it. My issue was primarily social anxiety and mild depression. Ketamine is a psychedelic and can make you have all kinds of vivid, wild and weird visual images it also makes you lose any sense of time and reality, at least that was my experience. The only benefit I can see of it is that it could allow you to gain insight and awareness into your higher power from a spiritual sense but I didn't need ketamine in order to do that, I am already able to do it on my own. I was told you can go back and reprocess old trauma while on ketamine but none of mine came up to reprocess. Frankly i'm not sure what the big deal is about ketamine. If I had not already been experienced with anxiety it could have been very upsetting.

It's also physically depleting and I had to have my wife drive me to the clinic and pick me up and I was wiped out the rest of the day.

Like I said, I don't have severe or untreatable depression and from what I understand, that is what it supposedly is best at treating.

It's also quite expensive and at the time was not covered by insurance. My injections cost around $500. ea. I stopped at 4 injections because I wasn't seeing any benefit from it, but we are all different and react differently to meds.