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Has anybody tried these ketamine infusions?

I  am  suffering  from severe treatment-resistant  clinical  depression. I  am  46  and have  been  depressed  since 12. Does  anybody  out  there  receiving  these   ketamine  infusions. I  have read  extensively on them and I  am  curious,I have  tried  ECT     TMS    and  pretty much all  of the  anti-depressants. Nothing  has  worked. Thank  you- Steve
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I have had crippling depression since I was 8 I’m 18 now I’ve tried multiple medications none work right now I’m just trying to survive and not end up in a mental hospital or dead
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Our 25 year old daughter has had depression and anxiety for 9 years and tried many treatment centers and many different types of meds.  She has had 2 Ketamine infusions and says she feels happier.  I can tell a difference already as she seems happier and lighter.  Since starting the treatments she has not been taking any daytime meds for anxiety or her depression.  She is suppose to have 6 treatments, so we stay hopeful.   She notices vivid dreams at night and says sometimes she feels like she is in a video game.  I guess everyone has a differenct experience.  The clinic we go to has a 90% success rate and they are blown away at how many people are responding so well to the infusions.  Good luck...I would defiently try it!
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Just want to say, very glad your daughter is being helped.  But please, folks, be wary -- nothing yet discovered has anywhere near a 90% success rate for mental illness.  No medication has achieved more than 30%, and it's about the same for CBT, thought to be the most successful therapy.  Now, that doesn't mean those things don't work, there are more than one therapist to try and more than one med, but I'm guessing that clinic has no way to measure how successful they are unless they have someone following everyone they've treated to see how they're doing, and they're not, guaranteed.  Again, this isn't to discourage you from trying things, it's more to warn anyone else out there to be careful about believing things that cannot be true.  The reason this is important is it allows us not to be discouraged when something doesn't work long-term, there's always something else we can try.  When people are given false information that oversells their treatment, they can get very discouraged when it doesn't work that nothing will work.  As long as it's working for you, though, that's what's important.
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