Ket has saved my life
Hello!
I’m from Brazil and I’ve been reading experiences in this community for a long time. My English isn’t so good but I need to relate what I’m experiencing lately.
I’m extremely depres* since high school (finished it with 17 years). I tried everything you could possibly imagine to treat this disease and it turned out as a hard type of depression (I don’t know how to say in English but my doctor labeled as Depressão Refratária).
I tested ALL of my medications in the genetics test, none of them ever worked. I got worst, really worst since last year. I was about to com** with my own life but then I hear about Ketamine and ECT. I’m in my fourth session of ketamine (IV) and I’ve never feel so calm and confident in my entire life. It’s not something like mania (for a person with bipolar disorder for example). It’s just peace. I’m feeling like the person I was before everything happened (my 15 year old again).
It’s not something easy to get in my country, I do have more sessions to come and probably will need to do maintenance for a while. But it did save my life.
No more SUI* thoughts, no more rushing feelings, just what and who I as supposed to be.
Disclaimer: therapy it’s essential at this point, I’m doing DBT rn and it’s guiding me trough all of this because - to be fairly sincere - I don’t know/didn’t know what to do with such things, I didn’t thought it would work. I need to take advantage of my new version and guide it through years and years of negligence. It’s hard to pick up your life from shards but life is so much manageable now.