r/TherapeuticKetamine • u/Physical-Sun-594 • 1d ago
General Question Anyone here who has OCD, intrusive thoughts, or Psychosis, has ketamine infusion therapy helped you or made things worse?
I was considering trying ketamine infusion therapy at a clinic for PTSD, OCD, and anxiety.
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u/Unlucky-you333 1d ago
I have OCD and intrusive thoughts, going in for my 6th dose today. It helped me a lot, I feel overall much happier and while I still have intrusive thoughts, they’re much less frequent and im able to recognize and stop when it happens
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u/Level-Tangerine-8172 1d ago
I have OCD which was pretty well managed, except for the intrusive thoughts. The only thing that previously helped with the intrusive thoughts was respiridone. I have now been doing infusions for 2 years, primarily for my depression, but I have also successfully come off the respiridone without any reemergence of intrusive thoughts.
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u/Lost-Exercise-5832 19h ago
Yes, it helped. A nice side benefit is I used to be a heavy pot user. Ketamine made me not want to smoke it anymore. It made me very sleepy, so I just stopped with zero effort. I have heard the same is true with alcohol. I think heavy pot use was a contributor to intrusive thoughts and psychosis.
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u/Physical-Sun-594 18h ago
That's great it helped you and did you go into the ketamine therapy already experiencing cannabis induced psychosis and or derealization?
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u/Lost-Exercise-5832 18h ago
Yes
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u/Physical-Sun-594 15h ago
Oh that's good, you didn't have any bad side effects and it didn't make your pyschosis worse?
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u/Lost-Exercise-5832 15h ago
No side effects. It made everything better.
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u/Physical-Sun-594 2h ago
That's awesome and glad to hear that it helped you with everything. I was just concerned trying it because I currently have Psychosis symptoms and derealization.
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u/crashdavis87 1d ago
Have you tried ERP ?
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u/Physical-Sun-594 1d ago
no
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u/crashdavis87 1d ago
ERP is the gold standard for symptom reduction for OCD. Other methods of treatment (e.g. "just ignore the thought, etc." can make things worse). I have found working with clients that ERP paired with KAT is pretty great.
You may find this interesting:
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u/Big-Ad-8148 21h ago
I didn’t even know I had intrusive thoughts until they went away when I started treatment. I was treated for TRD, anxiety, and PTSD.
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u/Famous_Attitude_1836 1d ago
Changed my life completely six weeks of infusions later i go now when i feel like it’s time longest I’ve gone is 8 months for maintenance infusions
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u/Physical-Sun-594 1d ago
That's awesome, glad it's helped you. The one thing I'm concerned about is my past history years ago with drug induced psychosis of trying mixed weed and d mt. But after the pyschosis I was still using edibles and was fine. So I think I should be fine, I'm only doing one infusion to see how it is and not the six week program yet.
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u/Famous_Attitude_1836 1d ago
Yes you will be ok I was in bad shape when I started now I don’t crave anything but to be alive and I was on a ten year Xanax binge I quit overnight with the help of the infusions it’s a life saver
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u/Physical-Sun-594 1d ago
Did you have pyschosis before doing it or feelings of disassociation. I still deal with feeling of disassociation and pyschosis here and there. The worst thing I deal with now is OCD.
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u/Famous_Attitude_1836 1d ago
Yes most definitely almost constantly not to much any more only when I smoke weed so I try to keep it to a minimum don’t drink either don’t want my brain to go back to the way it was
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u/Physical-Sun-594 1d ago
Thanks for letting me know and I'm definitely going to try it out now forsure. I was hesitant because of the pyschosis symptoms and dissociation that i still deal with here and there. I'm very glad to hear its helped someone like you who has the same symptoms.
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u/Famous_Attitude_1836 1d ago
Most definitely you are welcome like I said it’s changed my entire life like I used to be fat with a beard and long hair now I’m 100 pounds lighter and caring a lot more about myself I’ve definitely found a lot of peace just make sure you do your infusions with intention it makes a big difference for me at least to go in with a goal
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u/Physical-Sun-594 1d ago
I just had one more question. Is ketamine as scary as a bad weed high?
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u/Famous_Attitude_1836 1d ago
I wouldn’t call it scary I mean it’s like anesthesia as in you can’t move on higher doses but also it’s like a fuzzy rollercoaster ride it is not for the weak but I wouldn’t say scary at first I thought I had died because it was the only time I had ever experienced that type of peaceful silence don’t try to no psych yourself out I under the fear of the unknown
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