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Ketamine is usually prescribed to people with "treatment"-resistant severe depression, and these "treatments" include other types of medication, exercise, and m

Ketamine is usually prescribed to people with "treatment"-resistant severe depression, and these "treatments" include other types of medication, exercise, and meditation. That aside, often, severely depressed people can't do even the basic things like showering, going to work, or making dinner. Ketamine treatment offers a severely depressed person to bootstrap themselves into a state where they _can_ start doing things that will allow themselves to support themselves.

ridgeguy 8y ago
Well said, thank you. Few seem to understand how debilitating treatment-resistant depression can be. Source: wife's cousin, who when s(he)'s ok, is super smart, capable, and lives a good life. When s(he)'s in the depression hole, s(he)'s nearly comatose. Ketamine has helped greatly in his/her case.
- JshWright 8y ago
  Unrelated: Wouldn't "they" have worked fine as a pronoun there (and been less distracting)?
  - ridgeguy 8y ago
    Yeah, it would have. It's just that the ghost of my 5th grade English teacher would have emerged from the mists to point out that "they" is plural, whereas I was referring to an individual. Can't win.
    - TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
      Your 5th grade teacher, nor dictionaries, ought be considered authoritative sources of word meanings. Words mean what people who use them intend them to mean. But if you want something more authoritative than random-internet-comment, definition three from dictionary.com has you covered: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/they https://www.dictionary.com/browse/they they pronoun, possessive their or theirs, objective them. 1 nominative plural of he, she, and it. 2 people in general: They say he's rich. 3 (used with a singular indefinite pronoun or singular noun antecedent in place of the definite masculine he or the definite feminine she ): Whoever is of voting age, whether they are interested in politics or not, should vote. A person may apply only if they are over 21. They have been an actor since childhood.

ridgeguy 8y ago

Well said, thank you. Few seem to understand how debilitating treatment-resistant depression can be. Source: wife's cousin, who when s(he)'s ok, is super smart, capable, and lives a good life. When s(he)'s in the depression hole, s(he)'s nearly comatose. Ketamine has helped greatly in his/her case.

JshWright 8y ago
Unrelated: Wouldn't "they" have worked fine as a pronoun there (and been less distracting)?
- ridgeguy 8y ago
  Yeah, it would have. It's just that the ghost of my 5th grade English teacher would have emerged from the mists to point out that "they" is plural, whereas I was referring to an individual. Can't win.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
    Your 5th grade teacher, nor dictionaries, ought be considered authoritative sources of word meanings. Words mean what people who use them intend them to mean. But if you want something more authoritative than random-internet-comment, definition three from dictionary.com has you covered: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/they https://www.dictionary.com/browse/they they pronoun, possessive their or theirs, objective them. 1 nominative plural of he, she, and it. 2 people in general: They say he's rich. 3 (used with a singular indefinite pronoun or singular noun antecedent in place of the definite masculine he or the definite feminine she ): Whoever is of voting age, whether they are interested in politics or not, should vote. A person may apply only if they are over 21. They have been an actor since childhood.