Ketamine (Ketalar)

[Ghost]

This is the official thread for Ketamine, please use it for all further discussions.
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Wikipedia blurb: Ketamine, sold under the brand name Ketalar among others, is a medication mainly used for starting and maintaining anesthesia. It induces a trance-like state while providing pain relief, sedation, and memory loss. Other uses include for chronic pain and for sedation in intensive care.
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Poll on Ketamine for PSSD:
http://www.pssdforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2303
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Ketamine for depression: (No particular order)

Popular Media:
1) https://www.webmd.com/depression/featur ... ur-brain#1

2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... d427b273ac

3) http://time.com/4876098/new-hope-for-depression/

Medical Community:


1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243034/

[GIXXER]

Ive done ketamine a handful of times, dont remember any benefits towards PSSD

[DoIt]

Did you have anhedonia or depression and did it go away with it?

[GIXXER]

I tried it after I already I had PSSD.

I never tried it for depression.

Ive read that new studies are being done with K for depression though.

[siebs1122]

I had a series of 3 Ketamine infusions performed by a doctor. I have SSRI-induced depression, anhedonia, and PSSD. The ketamine infusions did not work for me and were very expensive, although there is a good amount of research that ketamine infusions can help treatment-resistant depression.

[silverstar]

Kratom Bali or indo strains are good for anxiety
The maeng da is more energized for day time depression

It's legal in most places ....it's better than k

[lost_soul]

Yes, I've used ketamine recreationally many times. It might help with depression or emotional numbing but it doesn't make any difference as far as PSSD goes.

[DoIt]

Yes, I've used ketamine recreationally many times. It might help with depression or emotional numbing but it doesn't make any difference as far as PSSD goes.

If you ask me, emotional numbing is one of the core symptoms of PSSD.

[lost_soul]

Yes, I've used ketamine recreationally many times. It might help with depression or emotional numbing but it doesn't make any difference as far as PSSD goes.

If you ask me, emotional numbing is one of the core symptoms of PSSD.

You're right, my bad. In my case my emotions are actually much stronger than they were before starting SSRIs, but my libido is completely shot so I suppose that's one emotion I'll never get back. It seems that every case of PSSD is different though. That scares me, because there probably won't ever be a single cure.

[siebs1122]

Yeah, I had a series of ketamine infusions performed by a doc a year back. Didn't do anything for PSSD for me.