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Originally Posted by Duruss
Sorry I am late to this. I have been under going ketamine infusions and talk therapy and then I go and train my brain to endure and manage discomfort. And man it works, I am friendlier too now which was a pleasant surprise.
So the ketamine creates a nueroplastic window that has allowed me to break old connections and build new ones. To train my brain I first started by soaking a hand in ice water, started out at only managing 3 minutes, can now got for 12+, I then moved on to handling spiders which used to give me the creeps. Spiders are now interesting and no longer bother me. I capped it off by going skydiving, which turned out to be nothing but fun, barely a hint of anxiety.
I have been working at all this since May when I finished kicking a pair of "friends" out of my life for gas lighting and humiliating me, plus not taking No for an anwser and doing things like sending me a dick pick(I am a straight man). It was a case of if I can't trust you, then why am I tolerating you're being a creep?
The end result has been a serious sense of accomplishment and happiness. My anxiety used to require meds(benzo's) every couple weeks or weekly. Now? Once in 2 months and falling. I have never been able to manage anxiety like this before.
Psychedelic assisted therapy is very real, but it needs the talk therapy component. Honestly without the talk component I don't think it would be half as effective
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Duruss, this is a really wonderful, hopeful story. I'm so happy for you!
I have not done Ketamine therapy, but have done other experiences like sweat lodge, ayahuasca ceremony, and psylocibin. The plasticity effects you describe with Ketamine are how I would describe what my mind felt like with the other modalities. Those discomfort progressions are fascinating and make a lot of sense, what a great idea.
Where are you receiving these therapies?