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Do you think something like "FDA-approval of Ketamine" could be successfully crowdfunded?
It's happened with MDMA via maps.org Why not? Probably need about $25M - $50M Also Ketamine seems to be pallative vs. a cure, if I'm not mistaken.
Get 50 of those to each chip in $1 mill - it's pocket-change to them.
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Ketamine isn't a pain reliever. It's a dissociative hallucinogen. It works by disconnecting you from sensory input and putting you in something like a lucid dream.
This isn't true. Ketamine infusions are also administered to patients with chronic pain.
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Doesn't ketamine stimulate growth in the same areas of the brain that exercise does, and does therapy prescribe routine daily exercise? I can imagine there being a great short term benefit to ketamine, as people who are severely depressed can't exercise due to the depression. Has there been any mention switching from ketamine to daily exercise, or doing both?
How often did you have depression? Especially major depressive episodes where you have trouble to even motivate yourself to move out of the bed or do ANYTHING but just "exist" and even that seems hard? If the answer is zero (which I think it is) do those who have it a favor and shut up. Depression is hard enough without "you just have to exercise, huahua" comments.
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Yeah. I feel pretty lonely here... :'(
Anarcho-capitalism largely depends on a belief that human nature is essentially good, and prone to spontaneous cooperation. It is also heavily dependent on reputation, which scales poorly, or on trustless technologies, which aren't yet mature. I'm still anarchist in 2018, but I haven't been anywhere near the an-cap territory of it since around 2006. Sticking to a political dogma out in the libertarian hinterlands is…
My girlfriend receives ketamine treatment for her depression, so I’ve the results first hand. It’s truly astounding. She’s seen more improvement from the ketamine than from a decade of psychotherapy and traditional psychopharmacology. The only downside is the cost (it’s not covered by insurance) and the potential that there are long term side effects that have yet to be discovered. We pay $375 for a 40-minute infusio…
My girlfriend receives ketamine treatment for her depression, so I’ve the results first hand. It’s truly astounding. She’s seen more improvement from the ketamine than from a decade of psychotherapy and traditional psychopharmacology. The only downside is the cost (it’s not covered by insurance) and the potential that there are long term side effects that have yet to be discovered. We pay $375 for a 40-minute infusio…
Can confirm. I’m in a similar boat. Some other tidbits of information: - only thing that seemed to work even after TMS and other treatments. - New pathways (SF and San Mateo locations) is really good. - more and more treatment places opening up in different cities etc. - uber assist or drive the patient home (full lucidity afterwards but you don’t want to drive). - long-term benefits aren’t apparent after the first t…
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This isn't true. Ketamine infusions are also administered to patients with chronic pain.
That it’s given for pain does not make it anything like what people think of as a pain reliever. It’s nothing like Tylenol, ibuprofen, or opiates.
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counter anecdote i know massive amounts of people who have taken psychedelics that are depressed. similarly for ketamine.
Without specifying the relative proportion of those who went up, in your experience, along with the massive amount of people who went down, your counter anecdote is weakly armed.
I've posted this in other ketamine news stories before, but I'm offering it as a firsthand testimonial here. Ketamine was both the best and most depressing depression treatment option I've ever tried. Within a couple of weeks after having had the initial round of six treatments in two weeks, I was the most functional and productive human being I've _ever_ been - things that used to be impossible or utterly agonizing…
That is a huge asset, but long endured depressions leave many unhealthy neural circuits over the years. These have be unlearned one by one, which takes time.
Ketamine increases freedom of thought and emotion, but you still need a goal and long-term plan to precisely target and unwork all the patterns that circle back to depression.
Luckily the entrypoint away from happiness is discernable and it is bittersweet: giving up, thereby reducing stress. Which is sweet at first, but turns into hell fast.