FOR TREATMENT-RESISTANT DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, TRAUMA + MORE

Ketamine treatment is now available

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How does ketamine work?

Ketamine is a N-methyl-D-asparate (NMDA) receptor antagonist and transient disinhibitor of glutamine transmission.

THIS LEADS TO:

Increased synaptic connections between limbic and cortical systems in the brain

Increased spine synapses and neuronal connections in the prefrontal cortex

Decreased effects of chronic stress, including emotional stress from trauma

Increased neuron connections through increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)

What is ketamine?

FAST FACTS

✓ Ketamine is a medication that has been widely used in humans as an anesthetic since 1970.

✓ In the last 15 years, new uses for this old drug have been discovered for people with difficult to treat pain and psychiatric disorders.

✓ Ketamine has been used successfully in the treatment of certain mood disorders.

✓ An appropriate choice in people who have not responded to first-line therapies.

✓ The use of ketamine for therapeutic purposes is given in low doses titrating up to a higher dose depending on initial response to therapy.

KETAMINE FOR MENTAL HEALTH

Ketamine has been used for the treatment of major depressive disorders, bipolar, anxiety and other treatment-resistant psychiatric and mood disorders.

Ketamine can provide fast-acting relief, many people feel therapeutic effects within hours.

What kind of patients are suitable for ketamine?

PATIENTS WITH:

✓ Treatment-resistant depression

✓ Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

✓ Anxiety or OCD

✓ Self-injurious behaviors, Bouts of anger, and Chronic suicidal ideation

✓ Therapy-resistant trauma

When a patient has not responded adequately to first-line therapies, Ketamine infusions may be considered as the next step.

KETAMINE TREATMENTS ARE NOT FOR THOSE WITH:

X Mild depression

X Mood swings

"IT'S AS IF I NEVER HAD DEPRESSION."

"It's hard to describe, but ketamine completely changed my life. It would be if my mental illness were diabetes. Psychiatric medications would be like insulin and therapy would be like exercise and diet help. But ketamine makes it as if I never had depression at all. It takes it all away. I'm so passionate about this treatment. I wish everyone knew about it." - Patient PV

"I FEEL FREE FROM MY TRAUMA."

"I've been in therapy for years for significant trauma in my life. I have had some of the best therapists in the country, but nothing has catapulted my healing quite like ketamine has. I wish ALL therapists were incorporating ketamine." - Patient KD

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