Can ketamine therapy a hope or treatment for resistant depression when antidepressants and antipsychotic and ect treatment are failed.

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Stop caring too much. Always smile back or laugh at people trying to depress you with their words or other activities. It will help you to avoid them and enhance your confidence. Do not forget to make eye contact :p. Listen to your favourite music and spend your free time with your parents, because at the end only your parents will support you in your good / bad times. Try to hangout or have walk with your pet if you have one :). You will learn what unconditional love is! you will forget everything for a moment and your vision towards life will change. Keep yourself busy as much as you can. You will not get time to think of unnecessary things which lead you to depression. Most lmportant, wake up early in the morning and go to morning walk or join people doing meditation. Trust me you will be feeling very happy and healthy after that. Read books, novels etc whenever you are free. If you cannot sleep at night due to stress then wake up and start reading .you will feel better and dizzy after sometime. Try to intract with strangers alteast once per day. You will feel very confident and will not get depressive thoughts. Go to your appstore and download this amazing app yourdost. Main advantage of this app is you can share your problems chasing you and you can get solutions from professionals. Its a very good app. Play outdoor games specially with childern :). Have a adventurous trip with your friends or family. Watch tv series you like.

Rachna Mishra · Accepted Answer

Stop caring too much. Always smile back or laugh at people trying to depress you with their words or other activities. It will help you to avoid them and enhance your confidence. Do not forget to make eye contact :p. Listen to your favourite music and spend your free time with your parents, because at the end only your parents will support you in your good / bad times. Try to hangout or have walk with your pet if you have one :). You will learn what unconditional love is! you will forget everything for a moment and your vision towards life will change. Keep yourself busy as much as you can. You will not get time to think of unnecessary things which lead you to depression. Most lmportant, wake up early in the morning and go to morning walk or join people doing meditation. Trust me you will be feeling very happy and healthy after that. Read books, novels etc whenever you are free. If you cannot sleep at night due to stress then wake up and start reading .you will feel better and dizzy after sometime. Try to intract with strangers alteast once per day. You will feel very confident and will not get depressive thoughts. Go to your appstore and download this amazing app yourdost. Main advantage of this app is you can share your problems chasing you and you can get solutions from professionals. Its a very good app. Play outdoor games specially with childern :). Have a adventurous trip with your friends or family. Watch tv series you like.

Nitish Jhunthra · Answer

It has been successfully used in few cases of treatment resistant depression. Cases have to selected on cases to case basis. Esketamine is not available in india yet and ketamine therapy is available at very few centers.

Saranya Devanathan · Answer

Dear Sunil,
Definitely ketamine therapy is a hope along with all other add ons for treatment resistant depression. Ketamine can be given as infusion during a suicidal planning, as tablet or nasal spray at other times. The dosage is a critical factor since it is a new treatment. Strictly under doctor's supervision.

Prof. Jagadeesan M.S. · Answer

The improvement from ketamine therapy is for very short time 2-3 days only and not long lasting. But it has literature to support effectiveness. Whether it is due to the anaesthetic effect or actual change in neurotransmitters involved in depression, is debatable. Good luck.

P K Sukumaran · Answer

No.