Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope

Re:Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope by Spivak on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:59PM (#37952250)

I feel like depression as a term is overloaded because it's a description of a symptom rather than a particular cause.

If you're depressed because you have a chemical imbalance then you're a great candidate for SSRIs and the like. Serotonin? In this economy?

If you're depressed because your life is miserable in some fashion then there's a lot of potential options but this sounds like what you're talking about with K as one treatment.

If you're depressed, you don't respond to SSRIs and "my life is good, why am I still like this?" describes you I think the parent is saying that transcendence is potentially one treatment for this.

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Re:Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope by nullindividual on Friday October 20, 2023 @12:04PM (#37957957)

Depression comes in many forms, you're correct, including depression due to physical deformities in the brain. This would fall under the last category where some forms of depression can be made worse by SSRIs and SNRIs, though those classes of drugs are most commonly ineffective for any patient.

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