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I think your generalizations are very wrong. Ketamine may be bad when abused, but when used correctly for depression, it can be extremely effective and good. It
by dimal 5y ago
I think your generalizations are very wrong. Ketamine may be bad when abused, but when used correctly for depression, it can be extremely effective and good. It changed my life greatly, for the better. And I wouldn’t say that psilocybin is unequivocally good either. The worst trip I ever had was on mushrooms. It was extremely traumatic in a way that had lasting effects. It changed my life greatly, for the worse.
- Natsu 5y agoSo, I'll agree with that but with a caveat, because I have a loved one who was part of a licensed esketamine (s-ketamine) trial. It certainly can pretty much just "turn off" some depression and I've seen it do that (even somehow avoiding problems from accidentally forgetting to take the other meds soon after). But it can also cause powerful and disturbing psychosis. In our case, I woke up at knife point to someone driven to tears by a psychosis telling them to kill me. I managed to de-escalate that without any harm done, but suffice it to say, caution is strongly advised with such things.