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This is equivalent to banging the brain with a sledgehammer. No thanks, I prefer ketamine. At least it feels like a gentler one.

• Natsu 7y ago
  That's great until you find someone with underlying psychosis and the voices in their head after a few months of treatment tell them to take out a big knife and go for a murder/suicide. It's great for the people it works for, but Spravato/esketamine isn't for everyone.
  • Jugglerofworlds 7y ago
    As someone who has schizoaffective disorder, I take offense to your assertion that psychosis=murderer. Your claim only serves to perpetuate the stigma attached to psychosis, when the disease itself is already bad enough. Coincidentally, I happened to have taken ketamine infusions for depression long before I was diagnosed with schizoaffective.
    • Natsu 7y ago
      > As someone who has schizoaffective disorder, I take offense to your assertion that psychosis=murderer. I did not mean to imply that. I was relating a real event that I personally observed.
  • lstodd 7y ago
    You seriously believe this magnetic thing is for everyone?
    • Natsu 7y ago
      No, and I cannot fathom why you would believe that could be implied by my response. Lots of people are reading things I didn't write. I merely asserted that there exist people for whom Spravato/esketamine is not the answer and related my own experience with having someone very close to me treated with it. That's it. Every other random implication is from someone reading things that I didn't write. And it's sad, because esketamine really looked like a good treatment at first. It made real improvements for a while. As you might imagine, it was discontinued immediately after that incident.