ABOUT KETAMINE:

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic approved by the FDA for anesthesia and for sedation during medical procedures. Since its first FDA approval in 1970, it has been widely used in operating rooms and emergency departments. Ketamine’s use in mental health is off-label, meaning it has not been approved by the FDA for the treatment of depression, anxiety, chronic pain, OCD, PTSD, drug or alcohol abuse, or other mental health or pain disorders or symptoms. Many medications are used off-label safely and effectively and many studies have shown ketamine to be effective in treating mental health disorders and symptoms.

Ketamine works as a dissociative, which means, it can quickly induce a state where people feel detached from their body and their everyday awareness and perception; everyday awareness and perception is often called “ordinary consciousness”. “Non-ordinary consciousness”, the dissociated consciousness that can be induced through ketamine, meditation, holo-tropic breath work, and other means, gives us time away from our normal way of thinking, including ruminating, obsessing, or depressing thought patterns and may bring about new ways of experiencing the world (or universe), your Self and your thought patterns, and your relationships. 

Ketamine can be combined with psychotherapy to create a powerful mechanism for healing when letting go of ordinary consciousness and when letting down the guard of the mind, also known as the Default Mode Network (DMN), which can be the origin of critical or anxious thoughts and defenses. Ketamine is neuroplastic, meaning it helps create new connections and structures in the brain. Ketamine has significant data suggesting that with repeated dosing it can have an antidepressant, anti-suicide, and anti-anxiety effect, though not everyone may experience this.