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>I'm very much concerned that rather than traditional psychotherapy Why on earth would you be concerned about a tool which allows clinically depressed individu
by cc-d 8y ago
>I'm very much concerned that rather than traditional psychotherapy
Why on earth would you be concerned about a tool which allows clinically depressed individuals to see immediate, significant improvement in their condition with relatively few side effects? You should also not group ketamine therapy with prozac, they are completely different drugs with completely different mechanisms of action, grouping them under a broad "antidepressant!" umbrella is borderline negligent.
Psychotherapy is often a long, drawn out process which doesn't necessarily always guarantee results. Not to mention the large amount of variance between individual therapists.
Psychotherapy is useful as an adjunct to psychiatric drugs, and vice versa. They are both useful tools when fighting mental illness, and are even more efficacious when combined. Drawing a line between the two for ideological reasons, instead of purely evidence-based results, is a mistake.
- faissaloo 8y agoBecause I feel it may encourage existing harmful behaviours that are causing the ideation to persist and end up fueling a cycle of dependancy.
- cc-d 8y ago> fueling a cycle of dependancy. Similar to how diabetics are dependent on insulin, or schizophrenics dependent on their anti-psychotic medication? You're also implying that people with severe, clinical depression can assuredly be helped by psychotherapy. I'm sorry, but the literature is far more abysmal than that. Many patients don't even respond to psychotherapy, and need psychiatric intervention in the same way a schizophrenic does.