An Open Letter to the Friends and Family of Those We Serve
This letter is dedicated to honoring all of the significant others who have been a part of the Ketamine Wellness Center’s community.
The Pandemic’s Dramatic Impact on Long-Term Mental Health
The Pandemic’s Dramatic Impact on Long-Term Mental Health- Including revealing yet more failings in current care and services A February 2022 article in Medpage Today covered the startling impact on mental health conditions resulting from the COVID epidemic. A study in the British Medical Journal has found mental health-related drug prescriptions are up by a…
Practicing Self-Love and Self-Compassion
Practicing Self-Love and Self-Compassion This is not about selfishness or vanity. This is not narcissism. When you truly love yourself, you don’t need to blast it to the world or even tell anyone else. Loving yourself allows you to love others. It also allows you to feel love from others. Start today – tell yourself…
5 Tips to Turn New Year Fear into the Best Year Ever
5 Tips to Turn New Year Fear into the Best Year Ever 5…4…3…2…1 Ring in the New Year!!! This should feel delightful, right? After all, we’re celebrating and brimming with hope and optimism. It feels great to make that list of resolutions but secretly we know the truth. After the streamers have streamed and the…
How Ketamine Therapy Changed My Husband’s Life
How Ketamine Therapy Changed My Husband’s Life My husband has battled with anxiety and depression his entire life. Often debilitating and always a daily struggle to keep going. In the 21 years that we have been together, I have experienced his relentless efforts to keep it manageable. He has tried (more than I can count)…
Mary Kate – Another Name for Courage
“Over time I was losing hope in physical therapy and the medications were increasingly numbing me,” explains Mary Kate. “By my 21st birthday, the best way I can describe my life is it felt like I had lost my identity, my identity as a sister, daughter, friend. I no longer recognized the 14-year-old Mary Kate who had been so full of life and neither did anyone else around me.”
Ketamine Therapy and the High Functioning Addict
More than 40 million Americans are living with a substance use disorder (SUD) according to the 2020 survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) – just 11% of these people in need receive any kind of treatment. Ketamine has been linked with better outcomes in substance misuse treatment when used along with behavioral and motivational therapy.
Surviving Wellness
For so long, we have been under the heavy blanket of pain, depression, anxiety, or PTSD. Some of us can’t remember what it feels like to be “normal.” Since our ketamine infusions, things have changed; the blanket has been lifted! Ketamine therapy is working, so now what?
VA Community Care Network
Ketamine Wellness Centers (KWC) the largest ketamine therapy provider in the United States, announces two new partnerships with the Veterans Affairs Community Care Networks (VA-CCN) of Illinois and Minnesota. The partnership will allow KWC to offer ketamine treatments to veterans at no out-of-pocket cost at the KWC locations in Chicago, IL, and Minneapolis, MN.
Farewell flip-flops, hello fall
And just like that, Fall is here. As we transition from long hot days to shorter cooler days, some people may find themselves feeling more anxious and depressed. Lower levels of serotonin from the reduction of exposure to sunlight can be one of the causes.