Episode 137: All About Ketamine Treatments with Dr. Steven Mandel
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Friends. If there is one interview of mine that you listen to, let it be this one. In this interview, I talk to Dr. Steven Mandel, the founder of the Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles. Ketamine is one of the most effective mental health treatments that very few people seem to talk about. To me this is a shame. It's amazingly effective treatment for depression, suicidality, PTSD, and bipolar.
In the interview, we talk about why Ketamine works, what an actual session looks like, and how it is a very low-risk procedure. We also address some common misconceptions and even get into the nitty gritty of cost/feasibility.
Please share this episode with your friends, families, and networks.
This is the first of a two-part series. Next week, I will be sharing an interview with an individual who describes their personal experience and amazing benefit from Ketamine treatments for depression.
I should note that I have no personal stake in the Ketamine Clinics. I simply believe that it's a treatment that should gain more exposure.
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| 0:00.0 | With this, you really transform lives. People are not suicidal. People are not depressed. People who |
| 0:06.1 | were laying in bed doing nothing get up and start doing stuff. People who couldn't concentrate. |
| 0:12.1 | Start concentrating. Start focusing, start getting |
| 0:15.0 | pleasure. |
| 0:16.6 | People who are hopeless and helpless and feel worthless and getting no pleasure from anything. Start all of a sudden, |
| 0:24.0 | the music starts to sound not like noise but like music. |
| 0:28.0 | And the food starts to taste like something other than sawdust. |
| 0:31.0 | And a hug doesn't feel like a prison anymore, but like an embrace. |
| 0:35.1 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:39.1 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:45.3 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and |
| 0:50.8 | recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you |
| 0:55.8 | need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and |
| 1:00.8 | just see what happens. If you need to skip that's okay but you know feel |
| 1:03.7 | free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not |
| 1:08.1 | your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct |
| 1:12.2 | medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:16.0 | So with those said, let's great. All Right. |
| 1:35.0 | Hello, Friends of All Varieties. |
| 1:37.0 | This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 137. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health |
| 1:44.4 | content for real people just like you. And today I have an interview that I'm |
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