Why do people claim ketamine will have long lasting or permanent impact on your mental health, but other NMDAR-antagonists don’t?

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If I take dextromethorphan (NyQuil) then four or so hours later I’m back to feeling like I did before I took it.

Just to be clear, I’m asking about taking ketamine under the supervision of a doctor. Not recreationally.

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I went through a Ketamine injection treatment for about a year when I was battling chronic depression as I was treatment resistant to all other forms of treatments. It was the only treatment that actually worked and helped me to permanently cure my depression; and for ultimately being the only treatment that saved my life.

It essentially allows you to reboot your brain and build new neural pathways that aren’t rooted in the deep seated negative thinking. There’s a lot of studies done around it, but I wouldn’t say that any of them are heavily peer-reviewed or conclusive enough to make a scientific conclusion on. However, from my own anecdotal experience with it, it truly is an amazing treatment if other forms of treatment have already been exhausted.

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