I have had a lifelong struggle with depression and anxiety and had sought many, many

treatments over the years. A variety of... This is Steve McFarland. He's 45, lives in the Chicago area,

and in his battle with depression, he says that nothing worked. I've tried so many different

medication. I am talking dozens of medications over the past 20 years. I've gone

through CBT and DBT and Act and all of that and I wanted something more and came across

Ketamine therapy in 2022.

Cetamine. Cetamine. It's a powerful anesthetic that can also help people with anxiety and

depression. Steve did some research, talked to some friends about it, and decided to give it a try.

He made an appointment with a telehealth company called Mind Bloom,

which first connected us with Steve in 2022.

In an interview this week, Steve remembered

taking the drug for the first time. The first session I had, I had tremendous

insights and began to see some things that got pieced together earlier in my life,

the unhelpful patterns of thinking and action that I had developed and right away it was this is so

transformative but at the same time so intense I have always treated it as as for lack of a better word kind of

sacred because of the power it has given me for the way it's empowered me to overcome a lot of my depression and anxiety.

And Kedimines been around for a while. It was used during the Vietnam War as a battlefield

anesthetic is also a party drug sometimes called Special K.

But its other uses have come into the spotlight more recently.

Tech CEO Elon Musk has talked about having a prescription for ketamine to treat depression.

But the drug is also under scrutiny after the high profile death of Friends actor Matthew Perry.

Perry died

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