A power wash of the brain-- Ketamine, depression, and suicidality

Chris successfully hid his increasingly severe depression throughout middle and high school, but by his first year of college he could no longer ignore the horrifying signs that his brain was losing touch with reality. Inanimate objects began to radiate into his thoughts, and suicide seemed the only way to escape. Fortunately Chris took the scariest leap of all and began to open up to a therapist about what was happening in his mind, leading to an exploration of shame, a reformulation of the self, and finally the unexpectedly powerful healing of ketamine. Dr. H interview-- "Recognizing psychosis", on Rural Emergency Med podcast https://www.ruralem.org/2019/03/31/episode-18-recognizing-psychosis/ Ketamine resources/information https://www.kriyainstitute.com Links-- Delaying treatment leads to worsening and more difficult to treat depressive, bipolar, and psychotic illness https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201233 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608308/ https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/cfaa-oyd022318.php https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/systems/early-intervention-in-psychosis/outcomes-in-first-episode-manic-psychosis/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996412004987 Dr. H and Back from the Abyss https://www.craigheacockmd.com Support the show