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This suggests that ketamine is beneficial for people who are suicidal to prevent them from killing themselves. The claim that is generally made about ketamine a
by sshine 5y ago
This suggests that ketamine is beneficial for people who are suicidal to prevent them from killing themselves. The claim that is generally made about ketamine and depression is that it can have a short-term resetting effect of someone's depressive symptoms (not necessarily at a suicidal level), making it possible to escape the black hole that otherwise can take weeks, months, years to come out of.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-ketamine-relieves-symptoms-depression https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-ket...
- kuhewa 5y agoFor bipolar or other disorders, not much of a discernible effect for depressives
- vmception 5y agoIts the turn it off, turn it on again treatment, for the brain
- mattkrause 5y agoI'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but I do halfway-seriously subscribe to this idea. A lot of things that seem to have anti-depressive effects, ranging from sleep deprivation to TMS and ECT, seem to basically give the brain a whack in the hopes of having it recover into a "better" state.