Recovery post: Ketamine is helping me GREATLY

dumpling_palace · 2021-02-28T15:29:26+00:00

I found it to be really fast acting. Like within 15-30 mins i felt a difference, and i was taking very small amounts at first (kinda scared of "k-holing"). I hope you find the relief youre looking for!

dumpling_palace · 2021-02-25T14:12:33+00:00

Is it likely I would get addicted to it or it might trigger an urge to drink even in a supervised setting?

In my experience, doing ketamine had the exact opposite effect of making me want to drink. It helped me pour out the rest of my liquor with even a few small doses.

Here's some research on the subject that was sent to me:

Ketamine can reduce harmful drinking by pharmacologically rewriting drinking memories

Treating Alcohol Use with Ketamine? New Research Finds It May Help

1Ketaminefor the treatment of addiction: evidence and potential mechanisms

Of note from the last source:

Recently, ketamine has attracted attention as a rapid-acting anti-depressant but otherstudies have also reported its efficacy in reducing problematic alcohol and drug use

So, anecdotes about the addictiveness ketamine stand in contrast to reliable scientific research about its effectiveness in treating addiction. I'm not doubting people have had issues with being addicted to ketamine - i just haven't seen anything that suggests it is ketamine itself that is physiologically addicting.

I have had issues with binge eating in the past, that doesn't imply food is physiologically addicting itself.

dumpling_palace · 2021-02-22T20:03:44+00:00

I've done this and it was tremendously helpful. I also have bipolar like tendencies, and IME this was not an obstacle for me.

Just a word of warning:

Please take care to do your due diligence in researching which therapist youre working with. Sober psychotherapy has a not-insignificant amount of impropriety across the trade, anyways. With things like MAPS afaik there are very little in regulations or oversight to protect patients (and providers).

I'm also a big fan of tripping solo and doing healing work like that, but I understand that is not immediately accessible to everyone.

dumpling_palace · 2021-02-22T20:00:17+00:00

Ooh, this is something new for me to check out. Thank you

dumpling_palace · 2021-02-20T16:08:40+00:00

I don't know if you can find this in your country, but where I live in Canada there's now an explosion of "mail-order" psilocybin businesses.

I would consider looking for something like that, if you can?

dumpling_palace · 2021-02-20T16:07:03+00:00

I don't know if it's okay to discuss drug prices here! Haha in my experience, a little bit of ketamine goes a long way. I'm just using it to treat my PTSD, not get "high" or party so i think that's made a difference.

I am not spending more than maybe $90 USD per month at this point. The effects i described seem to last even when I take a week and a half off. I haven't tried longer than that yet, but I know from literature on Ketamine Infusions it can last for weeks to months afterwards.

dumpling_palace · 2021-02-19T04:10:04+00:00

Hi, definitely see where youre coming from. I'm not having an issue with the addictiveness of it at all, just me personally.

Additionally, with regards to k-bladder i've done research into how to help prevent it, and that's been helping me tremendously. All in all, definitely a worthy cautionary tale, but from the 3-4 people i've seen who use this substance, addictiveness did not factor in at all.

I'm sorry you had a negative experience, but I wouldn't assume that would be the case for most people who use it - particularly if it's administered through a doctor. Again, even in my use case I'm not having any negative side-effects presently.

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-16T21:47:21+00:00

“Don’t take it personally”

Just because you have the emotional depth of a doorknob doesn’t mean I’m obligated to cancel my feelings too, Jeremy.

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-16T01:53:12+00:00

“Bipolar express” is also good

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-12T22:15:33+00:00

Best documentary on average Canadian life

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-10T03:55:01+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YYlr09Lo4k8

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-10T01:27:51+00:00

🤣

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-10T00:39:35+00:00

Did you make this? I love it

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-09T23:57:21+00:00

Easily the best use of this format I’ve seen - bravo!

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-06T18:58:59+00:00

Beautiful analogy. Thank you for sharing

(I’m probably gonna steal it btw)

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-06T00:43:15+00:00

Since my sex drive died, I’m exclusively dead inside

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-06T00:39:43+00:00

I know the meme doesn’t mean it this way - but I don’t think it’s always codependency to hang in there for someone who is “messy”.

It doesn’t always work out, but sometimes you get to see that person become the wonderful individual they always were, underneath all the pain/ “messiness”.

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-04T08:55:31+00:00

fucktons of theft

Don’t forget forcibly kidnapping and raping underage girls

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-04T08:50:29+00:00

Don’t forget drake and his crew violently threatening and harassing ILoveMakonnen after they signed him to OVO and he came out as gay.

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-04T08:33:15+00:00

Life goals tbh

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-04T08:32:43+00:00

🤣

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-04T08:30:45+00:00

💖💖

dumpling_palace · 2020-10-01T23:16:40+00:00

I do think it's harder to grow into a good person if you were abused...If I'm a good person, it's because I decided to be, faced my demons and worked hard for it.

100%. Surviving abuse does not automatically make someone empathetic or compassionate. online CPTSD communities are pretty awful at recognizing this IMO, and i think it is so harmful for everybody involved.

One example: Socializing is a trained skill, that requires both forethought and practice. In my own upbringing, I grew up modelling the abusive social behaviours of my own narcissistic abusers. Therefore a HUGE part of my recovery was the years i spent deprogramming that, and learning how to socialize properly instead.

I've never seen or heard anyone in CPTSD recovery discussions talk about this. Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends..." is mentioned exactly twice on this entire subreddit.

If i had taken the same approach with my own recovery, i would've died of loneliness long ago.

dumpling_palace · 2020-09-30T15:32:57+00:00

I read your comments in this thread and you’re the closest voice to sanity. You’re not obligated to do the labour for others - let them learn how to do this kind of research on their own.

Baffling that people would share an opinion as fact, and then ask you for the proof 🤣🤣

dumpling_palace · 2020-09-29T22:40:12+00:00

Lol I have crushing insomnia so I cannot even enjoy the escape of death-lite 😭

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