Ketamine for depression

[Gumby]

Anyone have any experience with ketamine infusions for depression/anxiety/bipolar?

 

[Smilla]

I have not tried them but I understand they are incredibly effective at least in the short term from what I have read.

 

[Gumby]

It's almost like I'm too depressed to organize my own suicide and need something to get me over the hump.

 

[Smilla]

It's almost like I'm too depressed to organize my own suicide and need something to get me over the hump.

I strongly identify with your statement; we want to die but a successful suicide requires intense focus and a cool head which isn’t exactly compatible with general suicidal states of mind.

There is a ketamine clinic that sprang up a mere 30 minutes from where I live and I have given thought to trying them ($550 per injection) but am trying to white knuckle my way through the planning process.

 

[Gumby]

Good luck, and I know your method of choice is on the complex side.

 

[EricRoche]

Don't have any money for literally anything unfortunately. I also don't have that many 'plugs' ( a slang for social connections that can give you drugs) so I don't really know where I could get it.

I wish I could but I really have no where.

 

[Temporarilyabsurd]

I am very tempted to try psylocybin ( the magic mushroom ) . but having a tenuous grip on reality , or a posoitive view of it , makes me fearful of consciousness cracking apart irretrievabley .

I've weed smoked and alcoholed myself into ( self diagnosed ) madness before now ... so I'm reticent.

If that wasn't the case I think I would be into it.

 

[EternalSanction]

I am very tempted to try psylocybin ( the magic mushroom ) . but having a tenuous grip on reality , or a posoitive view of it , makes me fearful of consciousness cracking apart irretrievabley .

I've weed smoked and alcoholed myself into ( self diagnosed ) madness before now ... so I'm reticent.

If that wasn't the case I think I would be into it.

shrooms mostly don't fuck up your reality as much as let's say LSD does. I know a lot ppl who've used them once in a while. But of course there's always a certain risk to them

 

[AveryConure]

Apparently there's research proving that ketamine is very effective for those who barely react to most antidepressants, so maybe in the future it'll be a better option than either getting electroshock therapy or just being miserable all your life.

Ngl if someone offered me some though I'd try it at least once since apparently I once was going to get ECT until I basically said hell no cause my memory problems are bad enough.