The popular drug ketamine – also known as “special k” – has been found in studies to provide a fast-acting reversal of symptoms of depression. The latest study is about its reversal of anhedonia which is a loss of interest in pleasurable activities which accompanies bipolar disorder.
nimh.nih.gov: “Rapid Agent Restores Pleasure-seeking Ahead of Other Antidepressant Action”
Someone once gave me some ketamine at a club years ago. It was a club that was open all day and I think I took it in the afternoon when there weren’t that many people there other than a few die-hards.
It gave me a weird feeling of dissociation, unlike any other drug I had ever tried before. It felt really weird dancing on it and I remember the dissociation feeling was kind of funny and made me laugh.
Its kind of funny that this drug might have some therapeutic benefit for depression. I can only speculate but perhaps its therapeutic benefit is due to its turning down some aspect of the brain’s normal operation similar to the way that adaptogenic herbs can benefit people with chronic immune disorders but actually turning down the immune system.
With respect to chronic immune disorders like chronic fatigue, it is thought that the immune system wears itself out by over-responding all the time until it wipes the person out.
There is now a much better understanding that the mechanism of depression in the brain is very similar: it results from chronic over reaction of the brain until it causes a kind of collapse from over-fatigue of stress-response mechanisms, leading to shut down.
So it may be that ketamine is somehow temporarily toning-down or blocking something in the brains of depressed patients leading to a significant short-term improvement.
For me, depression is almost a political issue. The real cause of depression is living in a society with what I have been referring to lately as “cancer people”.
In life there are people who emanations bring light and betterment to the world. Similarly, there are people who only bring disease and sickness. For example, people who never ride a bicycle, who think they are entitled to constantly drive around in motor vehicles polluting the air, congesting the roads, contributing cancer-causing chemicals and stress into the environment, are cancer people.
Cancer people run America. They run the city I live in as they do most places. This is the time of the cancer people. They destroy open spaces which would be natural places of healing and refuge. It is the time of the cancer people.
Therefore one has to e careful just how far one goes with thinking that they may have a disease or disorder such as depression, when in fact the world around them does actually suck shit to use a vernacular phrase.
Its not just sad when people propose “treating” depression under such circumstances, it is in fact one of the most destructive acts that can be done because it destroys everything that a person of light lives for. It destroys the truth.
Truth is sometimes hard to bear and true healing always means a recognition of and a holding to truth, not abandoning it wholesale in the name of “healing”.
For example, I love to meditate outdoors. But in my city the cancer people have ruined all outdoor places that are suitable for meditation. All.
Similarly they have destroyed all outdoor places suitable for the practice of yoga. It is my view that any responsible practitioner of yoga and/or meditation would consider this issue to be the forefront of a true practice of wanting to heal others.
But, as it is, no yoga instructors nor meditation teachers are getting involved in restoring outdoor places of healing from the cancer people and therefore the practices they espouse are lies.
And yes, I’m sure if one wants to burn fossil fuels, there are meditation and yoga centers that people can drive to. But that just means collapse. That is not a cure.
The real cure is when the cancer people are stopped and healing places exist right here, places where one can walk, run, or ride a bicycle to, not burn fossil fuels to get to.
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