A power wash of the brain-- Ketamine, depression, and suicidality

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Craig Heacock MD

Psychiatry, Bipolar, Suicide, Depression, Ketamine, Psychotherapy, Science, Psychedelics, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Medicine, Psychology, Mental Health

4.8 • 452 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Chris successfully hid his increasingly severe depression throughout middle and high school, but by his first year of college he could no longer ignore the horrifying signs that his brain was losing touch with reality. Inanimate objects began to radiate into his thoughts, and suicide seemed the only way to escape. Fortunately Chris took the scariest leap of all and began to open up to a therapist about what was happening in his mind, leading to an exploration of shame, a reformulation of the ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Back from the Abyss, where we bring you stories of hope and healing, recovery, and redemption.
0:18.6	I'm Dr. Craig Hickok, your host and resident psychiatrist.
0:23.6	Names and some details have been changed in these stories to maintain confidentiality.
0:29.6	Today, we hear the story of suffering for years in silence, pretending that everything is okay,
0:36.6	of feeling too ashamed and scared to tell anyone
0:39.1	or reach out for help. This is a tragically common theme in my practice, as well as the
0:45.2	centerpiece of today's story. In sixth grade, Chris is once happy in her life, steadily morphed
0:52.3	into an increasingly frightening morass of darkness,
0:55.0	obsessions of death and violence, and eventually the onset of suicidal plans and psychotic symptoms.
1:01.0	Today, he shares the story of his frightening and accelerating descent into the abyss and the treatments that eventually pulled him out.
1:09.0	Chris grew up in a close and loving family. He had friends and likes and the treatments that eventually pulled him out.
1:13.6	Chris grew up in a close and loving family.
1:15.3	He had friends in like school.
1:19.6	There was no apparent warning signs of the mental and emotional chaos that was about to envelop him.
1:22.8	My dreams, which had previously been wild, but not terrible, started to take on a very dark tone. My terrible started to take on a very dark tone my
1:29.6	talking started to take on a dark tone my wishes the same way and it all seemed to come unprovoked
1:37.7	as i said i came from that that childhood background that setting of love.
1:45.6	What do you think your family thought?
1:47.5	I hit it from them.
1:49.3	You hit it from them.
1:49.9	I hit it from them.
1:51.0	So at that point in time, I didn't notice them noticing anything.
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