Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

A power wash of the brain-- Ketamine, depression, and suicidality


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Chris successfully hid his increasingly severe depression throughout middle and high school, but by his first year of college he could no longer ignore the horrifying signs that his brain was losing touch with reality. Inanimate objects began to radiate into his thoughts, and suicide seemed the only way to escape. Fortunately Chris took the scariest leap of all and began to open up to a therapist about what was happening in his mind, leading to an exploration of shame, a reformulation of the self, and finally the unexpectedly powerful healing of ketamine.



Dr. H interview-- "Recognizing psychosis", on Rural Emergency Med podcast
https://www.ruralem.org/2019/03/31/episode-18-recognizing-psychosis/

Ketamine resources/information
https://www.kriyainstitute.com

Links-- Delaying treatment leads to worsening and more difficult to treat depressive, bipolar, and psychotic illness
https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201233

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608308/

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/cfaa-oyd022318.php

https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/systems/early-intervention-in-psychosis/outcomes-in-first-episode-manic-psychosis/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996412004987


Dr. H and Back from the Abyss
https://www.craigheacockmd.com

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