When you suffer from chronic and severe depression, you might have tried dozens of prescription antidepressants to no avail. You also may have had little to no luck relieving your worst symptoms through talk therapy.

Instead, you may need more intensive help to feel better and get past the worst symptoms of your condition. Your solution could involve undergoing professional outpatient ketamine therapy that is designed for severe depression. 

Faster Effects

When you take oral antidepressants, you often must wait weeks for these medications to take effect. They must build up in your bloodstream and target the chemicals in your brain, which can take weeks, during which you may continue to suffer from the worst of your symptoms.

However, ketamine therapy introduces ketamine directly and intravenously into your bloodstream. It often begins taking effect within hours, if not faster. You may notice its effects right away and start to feel better. You avoid having to wait weeks or longer for oral medications to start working when you undergo ketamine therapy.

Calming Effects

Further, when you undergo ketamine therapy, you may notice your racing thoughts calm down effectively. Part of your depression's effects on your body and brain might have led you to have racing thoughts about suicide or self-harm. You might have been unable to stop these thoughts on your own and worried about giving in to them.

Ketamine therapy, however, may calm your mind and allow you to overcome or get control of thoughts like these. You may feel calmer and more peaceful after undergoing several sessions of ketamine therapy. You may no longer have continuous suicidal ideations or thoughts of harming yourself.

Less Need for Prescription Drugs

Finally, ketamine therapy may eliminate or reduce your need for prescription drugs. The costs of these medicines that you purchase at the drugstore can be prohibitive and beyond what you can afford on a regular basis. You also may not like the side effects, such as dry mouth and weight gain, that they can cause.

When you undergo ketamine therapy, you may no longer need to buy expensive medications with which to treat your depression. Your health insurance may also cover most or all of the costs of your ketamine therapy for you.

Ketamine therapy can be a solution for your chronic and severe depression. It can begin to work quickly in your system. It may also calm your mind and spare you from buying expensive medications with which to treat your depression.

For more information, contact a psychologist such as Dr. Christina M. Charlotin, Licensed Psychologist.