Innovative Psychiatry
Mother’s Week Did you enjoy Mother’s Day? Maybe you celebrated the day, or maybe it was a weekend whirlwind, but I’m hoping the people in your world have been celebrating the moms they love and appreciate all week long! If you’re a mom, you know what mean. No gesture is too small. But even if you’re […]
How is it that he is just so full of himself? Why is it that everything is always all about her? There’s so much self-absorption these days that it’s dizzying. Seems like experts — on just about everything — surround us. People who know it all, get it right, and never think twice about what they […]
Can You See It? Teenagers can be so unbelievably moody. Well … a far more palatable word for it is reactive. Overreactive (like yelling that brings the house down), intensely reactive (meltdowns that go on for hours, leave a hole in the drywall, or tear the room apart), egregiously reactive (with threats to jump off […]
Don’t you just hate it? Hate the drudgery and pain of fighting an illness that doesn’t respond to treatment? Granted, there are some illnesses that you can find remedies for, and recover. Maybe a steroid injection, or an antibiotic, and you start noticing improvement in a couple of days. But not all disorders are like […]
I could use some of that. We hear that all the time. Relief, relaxation and relishing your life can sound so far away … but it doesn’t have to be. As word gets out about IV ketamine treatment for depression and other psychiatric mood disorders, more and more studies are emerging. New information is surfacing […]
Ever have somebody copy you? You know, try to be like you? Imitate what you do, where you go? try to get what you have? They wannabe like you. Well, maybe not just exactly like you — kind of like you and better than you all at the same time. It’s happening with ketamine. We’ve been talking […]
IV Ketamine and Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders After reading today about a beautiful young man – let’s call him Tom – whose life ended tragically at the crossroads of despair, I started thinking. Like many of my own patients, he had a wondrously warm and giving heart — and a compassionate heart the size of Montana for […]
“Special K,” a psychedelic drug popular in dance clubs, is being used to treat severe depression when nothing else works. Watch the video below!
PTSD Has a New Predator: IV Ketamine He’d seen active combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. His unit had grown close. Tight. Trusted each other with their lives. They’d cheered when word came that Jarrett’s baby had been born. They’d gotten drunk with Ben when his mom died. They had each other’s back, and knew each other in […]
Mother and Healthcare Professional Discusses Her Child’s Experience with Low-Dose Ketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression As both a healthcare professional and a parent of a child who suffers from treatment resistant depression and anxiety, I have been quite attentive to the changes that arise in an individual after receiving low-dose ketamine. I thought it would […]