Yea, they are both dissociative anesthetics and the experiences have quite a few similarities. If you like Nitrous you will most likely enjoy ketamine, and it’s much easier to get to a fully-dissociated state through ketamine than by doing whippets.
Ketamine therapy is, in my understanding, usually smaller doses of the drug than you would take for a psychedelic experience.
Ketamine therapy is, in my understanding, usually smaller doses of the drug than you would take for a psychedelic experience.
Nah. I mean, it can depend. If you're doing nasal spray treatments, then yes, it's generally a lighter dose. But plenty of clinics give you a full on psychedelic experience.
Oh yeah, I'm in complete agreement there. A brain reset is a good way to phrase it. It's like a clearing away, a decluttering.
Speaking for myself at least, I have no doubt that the experience plays a big role in the lasting antidepressant effects. A good trip (and pretty much all of them are) is intellectually stimulating and emotionally freeing. There's some question about whether other arylcyclohexalamines can have the same antidepressant properties, but of those I've tried, they usually do for me.
Yea, they are both dissociative anesthetics and the experiences have quite a few similarities. If you like Nitrous you will most likely enjoy ketamine, and it’s much easier to get to a fully-dissociated state through ketamine than by doing whippets.
Ketamine therapy is, in my understanding, usually smaller doses of the drug than you would take for a psychedelic experience.
Nah. I mean, it can depend. If you're doing nasal spray treatments, then yes, it's generally a lighter dose. But plenty of clinics give you a full on psychedelic experience.
Interesting. I don't have enough time/expertise to really be able to answer it, but like I do wonder if some of the antidepressant effect is the subjective experience of the drug in addition to the biological processes that the medical research focuses on.
Ketamine always feels like a hard reset of my brain, and I generally feel way more optimistic about problems after a good trip on it.
Oh yeah, I'm in complete agreement there. A brain reset is a good way to phrase it. It's like a clearing away, a decluttering.
Speaking for myself at least, I have no doubt that the experience plays a big role in the lasting antidepressant effects. A good trip (and pretty much all of them are) is intellectually stimulating and emotionally freeing. There's some question about whether other arylcyclohexalamines can have the same antidepressant properties, but of those I've tried, they usually do for me.