“they talk of a sedative experience as a “cure”?”
Well, it is multiple treatments, but the total number of treatments is around 8 (i.e. it isn’t a recurring event in your life ... you get X number of treatments and you’re cured). Some people need more, others less.
It states that the drug appears to help rebuild parts of the brain that were damaged due to a traumatic event. It doesn’t appear to mask the underlying problem.
I just wish we had more knowledge of the brain to understand the underlying process that’s causing the healing vs. “let’s try this ... it works? NEXT!”. :-)
We DO have ways to see effects of various drugs, traumas to the brain...they are called Brain Scans.
Just because you sedate someone, that may not be good treatment.
We have evidence based ( double blind studies) treatments for bipolar disorder...which is a disease that is not “ cured”.
Any medications that are not evidence based...and are just one, or even, many people’s “stories” of their “ cures”...are usually the placebo effect...which has a 50 % positive “ improvement “ rate.
THIS doc has a great racket going! Ketamine can have great side effects!