For people considering ketamine care, the language can initially feel confusing. IV ketamine therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy both involve ketamine, but they are not interchangeable experiences. The difference is not simply whether you talk during an...
Choosing to explore IV ketamine therapy usually begins with questions that are more practical than abstract. What happens when you arrive? Will you be alone during the infusion? How will you feel afterward, and what should the rest of the day look like? At Ketamine...
For decades, depression was explained to patients using a simple framework: the brain had too little serotonin, and antidepressants would correct the imbalance. That explanation was always a simplification of far more complex neuroscience, and the clinical evidence...
Most people researching ketamine for depression or PTSD are thinking about the infusion: what it involves, how many sessions it takes, how quickly it works. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, or KAP, is something clinically distinct, and many of the patients who would...
The most persistent misconception about treatment-resistant depression is that the word “resistant” means permanent. It does not. Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is a clinical designation for major depression that has not responded adequately to at...
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is often explained as winter depression triggered by reduced daylight, as though the solution is simply waiting for spring. For people whose symptoms return year after year with increasing severity, or who have stopped responding to...
