Healthy Living & Mental Health

Ketamine can provide rapid and remarkable benefits which can be sustained with periodic maintenance infusions plus a comprehensive treatment plan. That’s where Facilitated Treatment Support comes in. We talked with expert Health & Wellness Coordinator Kayla Camp to help demystify treatment support and answer real questions from real patients.

Suicide is a growing public health crisis with limited treatment options. Fewer than half of all patients feel any relief at all from typical first-line medications and, while there is an alarming increase in suicidality among young people, some studies show little benefit from first-line medications in adolescents. All first-line antidepressants carry a boxed warning of an actual increased risk of suicide.

Suicide and mental health awareness are discussed now more than ever, but the stigma is still deeply rooted within our society. Ending that stigma will take time but the first step is to talk openly about it. Whether you are suicidal or wondering if someone you love is suicidal, speak up, reach out, just ask!

Overall spending on mental health treatment reached $225 billion in 2019 and that doesn’t include additional indirect costs caused by mental health challenges and depression. Simply accessing mental health care can be prohibitively expensive and usually far exceeds other health costs.

Depression can re-wire the structure and function of the brain creating unhealthy patterns and pathways. Research shows innovative ketamine infusion treatment for depression can rapidly halt and reverse the damage and reconfigure sustained antidepressant effects.