Talking openly about how Ketamine has been helpful for his mental health might actually be the only good thing Musk has done in his life.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 23:06:52 JST Thomas 🔭✨ -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 23:21:32 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @ramsey Usually for i.m. or i.v. Ketamine you start with an intense two weeks or so initial round and continue with treatments about once a month or so.
Highly depends on how well or not it works for you individually.
Ketamine alleviates depression symptoms within literal minutes and helps brain heal longer term so over time depression flares should be less strong.
I recommend something with guidance so you can make sense of what happens during treatment (out of body feeling/hallucinations).
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Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 23:21:33 JST Ben Ramsey @thomasfuchs I want to know more about this. When I was on Spravato and saw you talking about infusions, I was skeptical because it was different from what my doc prescribed, and for a while, I think the effects were lasting beyond treatment, but 1.5 years after treatment, I’m not sure. They did say I could come in for follow-up treatment, as needed, but getting the practice to return my calls has been frustrating.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 00:06:13 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @FeralRobots @LinuxAndYarn Ketamine specifically literally removes depression and suicidal ideation within _minutes_ of taking it.
Yes, you need to regularly take it, but that's true with any medication for depression; we haven't found a way to permanently cure it.
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Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 00:06:14 JST Rachel Rawlings @thomasfuchs Given Musk's behavior and tweets, it's hardly a good advertisement for ketamine.
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FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 00:06:14 JST FeralRobots @LinuxAndYarn @thomasfuchs
arguably a way glib to put it; however, it does get at a problem with this type of treatment. What I've read is that psychedelics as treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, et al, is currently believed to work by increasing neuroplasticity.What do you then *do* with that?
If you just take the drug & live your normal life, you should expect any beneficial results to be impermanent. Or if you continue to do bad shit, expect new, undesirable patterns to be enforced.
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