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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The brain is an incredible organ that can literally delete or hide memories because they are so traumatic. Most people also have a warped sense of self (ego) and ignore, distract from, refuse to accept or overlook the root causes for trauma/depression.
Ketamine is a dissociative that melts your ego away leaving nothing but facts and the truth. Biases and defense mechanisms are temporarily blocked. Most pyschadelics also have the same affect – you hear alot of people “giving in” to a trip when on acid/mushrooms/dmt.
So let’s take a normal person who was sexually abused as a child. And let’s say this person refuses to accept it, refuses to think about it or process it. This will likely result in negative behaviour, that could result in something like a drug addiction.
That person then refuses to accept they have a drug problem so overconsume drugs leading to health issues. The health issues get worse over time resulting in decreased energy or chronic fatigue. The chronic fatigue results in being withdrawn and losing friends and performing worse at work.
That person will likely blame others or bad luck for everything because that is easier to accept. They’ve created a warped sense of reality that will likely remain unchallenged forever.
See how a single event can cause a chain reaction?
Ketamine breaks the chain at the first link of trauma. You are forced to see the event, or think about it whilst being incapable of deflecting from the truth. That realisation will remain forever even after the effects of the drug have worn off.
Combine this with therapy and now the person can unpack the chain of events that got them to clinical depression or drug addiction.
Think of Ketamine like a truth serum for your brain.
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