In a recent episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Mindscape founder Eiad Asbahi joins host Paul F. Austin to discuss how years of inner work changed his relationship with himself, and how ketamine therapy helped him take that work further. He shares how ketamine creates space between his thoughts, allowing him to feel more present, recognize… Continue reading Mindscape Founder Eiad Asbahi on The Psychedelic Podcast
When you’re considering a new treatment, you want to know when you might start to feel a difference. So how long does ketamine therapy take to work? Clinical studies suggest that oral ketamine may reduce depressive symptoms, with improvement beginning around the second week of treatment and continuing to emerge over the following several… Continue reading How Long Does Ketamine Therapy Take To Work?
If you’re considering at-home ketamine therapy, one question tends to sit underneath the others: how does anyone arrive at the right dose for you without seeing you in person, and are you locked into whatever you start with? The short answer is that dosing is individualized and reviewed by a licensed clinician, and it… Continue reading How Your Ketamine Dose Is Set and Adjusted in At-Home Therapy
It’s one of the more disorienting experiences in trauma healing. You’ve done the work. You know exactly where the pattern comes from. You can trace it back to the specific dynamic, the specific person, maybe even the specific age. You’ve talked about it. You’ve journaled about it. You understand it with a clarity that… Continue reading Trauma Healing: Why You Keep Repeating Old Patterns
Overthinking and low mood often show up together. The more your mind loops through the same worries, memories, or what-ifs, the harder it becomes to break out of those patterns. Over time, it becomes more difficult to move out of negative emotions. Looking at the connection between glutamate and depression helps explain why. When… Continue reading Glutamate: The Neurotransmitter Behind Overthinking and Low Mood
At Mindscape, you can choose how you take your medication: as a nasal ketamine spray or a type of oral lozenge called a troche, which dissolves in your cheek or under the tongue. Your clinician will confirm that it’s an appropriate option based on your medical history and treatment plan. Both are effective for ketamine… Continue reading Nasal Ketamine vs. Oral Troches: Which Form Is Right For You?
Something about ketamine therapy caught your attention: how differently it works, how quickly some people notice a shift, or the possibility of another option when standard care has not helped enough. The practical question is simple: who is a good candidate for ketamine therapy? Ketamine therapy is often explored by people navigating a range… Continue reading Who Is a Good Candidate for Ketamine Therapy?
The conversation about ketamine therapy focuses on what it does: it’s faster than antidepressants, it may help people other treatments haven’t. What gets less attention is why, and what makes it different from options that haven’t worked before. The answer: it’s all about neuroplasticity. So, what is neuroplasticity, exactly? It’s the brain’s ability to… Continue reading How Ketamine Therapy Supports Neuroplasticity
Ketamine treatment for depression has gotten a lot of attention as an alternative to traditional medications. The question isn’t whether antidepressants work in theory. It’s whether they worked for a specific individual. The reality is that for many people, they didn’t—or not enough, anyway. Ketamine therapy comes at things from a completely different angle.… Continue reading Why Ketamine Therapy May Work When Antidepressants Don’t
Looking at anxiety through the lens of the nervous system helps explain why some treatments work differently than others. Ketamine treatment for anxiety can help reduce anxious thoughts, but it may also create conditions in which long-standing protective patterns become more flexible. That can make it easier to change long-standing responses that once happened automatically,… Continue reading Ketamine Treatment for Anxiety: What the Nervous System Approach Looks Like
