In this episode, Oakley’s client shares her journey through debilitating depression and anxiety and how the monitored use of ketamine may have saved her life.
Show Notes
Oakley’s client shares her journey through debilitating depression and anxiety and how the monitored use of ketamine may have saved her life—or, at the very least, months and years of her time. Join us to learn about the ins and outs of this treatment, its effects, proper use, and how most of us are still learning about this drug.
In this session, the client shares incredible insights into panic attacks, the use of anti-depressants, and what these treatments really taught her about what’s possible in her life and how they gave her a chance to step out of being a slave to her anxiety and learn to work with it to create the life she is proud of.
Main Topics
- The client’s journey with ketamine treatments as one of the first patients to go through ketamine treatments with her integrative physician following a depressive state in college (02:30)
- What is ketamine? (10:05)
- The client’s first experience with a ketamine treatment and the most beneficial and helpful factors in the experience (12:43)
- How ketamine works and how it treats the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks (25:05)
- Learning how to understand and manage panic attacks after ketamine treatments and how it’s transformed her life (29:14)
- Debunking the damaging myths around “personal development” and striving for perfection (39:11)
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Welcome to Sex Drugs & Enlightenment where we open the door and take down the walls of the therapy office—to gain tools, insights, support, and the experience of being heard and connected within the 21st century.
Hi, I’m Oakley Ogden, a psychotherapist and licensed counselor with over 17 years of experience working with young adults. In this podcast I unpack the profane with my guests to recognize how the tough stuff is the sacred stuff.
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