Discover a breakthrough approach to mental wellness
Did you know that depression has been named by the World Health Organisation as the leading cause of disability worldwide? Depression is characterised by feelings of sadness or emptiness, trouble with memory or making decisions, insomnia, fatigue, increased pain sensitivity, eating too much or not eating at all, feelings of clinginess or loneliness, and preoccupation with death or risk of wanting to commit suicide.
Here at Ketafuse we want to prevent that, and enable our clients not only to overcome depression, but also to be enabled to overcome past traumas and go on to live fulfilled, joyful lives.
The medication* that we use is an anaesthetic medication, which works as a moderately fast-acting antidepressant. It has been shown to rapidly improve the mental health of thousands of people around the globe.
Our medication is revolutionary in that it has immediate and long-term effects:
The immediate effect causes an improvement in mood about 2 hours after receiving it. With regular antidepressants one typically has to wait at least 2 weeks for the antidepressant effect to kick in.
While traditional antidepressants can affect levels of certain brain chemicals related to mood and emotion, our medication influences a different neurotransmitter called glutamate. It then triggers a cascade of biochemical, structural and functional changes in the brain known as neuroplasticity.
This neuroplasticity, which only occurs after a person has received repeated infusions, causes a long-term effect in the brain: the neurons actually grow and reconnect, thus effectively “rewiring the brain”, making the brain more malleable and receptive to therapy or alternate ways of thinking.
The ideal number of infusions one needs for this to occur is six infusions, over 3 weeks.
Experts say that this medication appears to provide a kind of “mental time out” from distressing thought patterns. Dr Daniel Brenner, a psychiatrist and founder of Cambridge BioTherapies in the USA, said that as negative thinking begins to quieten down during and after this therapy, many patients begin to find psychotherapy more productive, and behavioural patterns easier to adjust. “Feelings become more available,” Brenner said. “It’s not just an antidepressant, it’s also a medication that shuts down the anti-reward circuitry in the brain that gives rise to shame and self-reproach and the desire to hurt oneself.”
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