“What Ketamine Therapy Is Like” by Sable
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Sniff-click. Sniff-click. One shot in each nostril, and here…we…go. A while ago, I started Ketamine therapy for depression. I didn’t finish - I changed jobs, which switched insurances, which messed everything up - but I was doing it for two and half weeks (five doses) before then, and had good results with it. (For those of you who read about my experiences with TMS, I tried Ketamine first, and did the TMS after I couldn't get back on the Ketamine with my new insurance.)

** Background** The TL;DR is that a while back, someone figured out that giving humans a low-dose horse tranquilizer cured depression (temporarily). I don’t know (and I don’t want to know) how they figured that out, because the story in my head is funnier than anything real life could come up with. Now we’ve got an FDA-approved treatment for depression using a nasal spray (called Spravato) [...]

Outline:

(00:37) Background

(01:23) The Boring Bits

(01:26) Signing Up For The Treatment

(03:26) The Schedule

(03:56) The Treatment Itself

(05:51) The Trip

(06:35) The Visual Effect

(07:56) The Bodily Dissociation

(08:31) The Rest of the Trip

(09:20) The Effect

(10:29) Conclusion

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First published: November 11th, 2024

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zgAws2AoFE3adigvy/what-ketamine-therapy-is-like)

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