Spring Center of Hope Blog and News

Stories about the Spring Center of Hope, ketamine infusion and relief from depression and pain.

The Spring Center of Hope blog was created to allow us to post stories about SCOH and more specifically about the stories and successes people have had using ketamine infusion therapy for relief. We hope you will find our blog interesting and appreciate your sharing with your friends and family.

Ketamine and Psychotherapy: Working Together

Ketamine therapy is not just a passing fad in the treatment of depression, suicidal thoughts, PTSD and other mental health issues. Each week continues to bring more studies to support the breakthrough use of this time-honored drug. Ketamine has been in use over 50...

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: How Ketamine Can Help

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe mood disorder, is characterized by mental health and physical symptoms in the week before the onset of menstruation and affects millions of women worldwide[i]. It is a much more intense form of PMS. Emotional and mood...

How to Make Your Ketamine Therapy More Effective

After trying and failing multiple medications for depression, PTSD or suicidal thoughts, ketamine therapy promises to be a beacon for help. It is an entirely different medicinal approach for rewiring the brain and relieving debilitating symptoms. Ketamine helps build...

Which Medications May Affect Ketamine Therapy?

There is one thing almost all ketamine therapy patients have in common: they are taking daily medications to manage their condition. Ketamine therapy is growing in popularity for the treatment of mood disorders, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal...

Anxiety Relief With Ketamine

About Anxiety Anxiety is a hot topic among social media. This is not surprising considering anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults in the United States each year. Sadly, less than 40% receive treatment, according to the ADAA (Anxiety and Depression Association of...

Mental Health and Teens: Why Ketamine May Be an Option

Mental Health and Teens: Why Ketamine May Be an Option The Statistics The numbers are staggering. 20% of teens age 13-18 have a mental health condition. 50% of cases of mental illness begin by age 14. 90% of those dead by suicide had an underlying mental illness. 8-10...

The Stigma of Mental Ilness

What does mental illness look like? Is it the man standing on the street corner talking to himself? Is it the woman huddled on the couch all day, or the prisoner pacing his small cell? Let us refocus. What if it is your extroverted coworker, or your son’s energetic...

Ketamine and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

The term Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has much deeper meaning than many of us may realize. It is not uncommon to hear it casually used in daily conversation, often as a joke. True OCD patients suffer out of proportion to what the public can see or...

Ketamine for Chronic Pain

Ketamine is well known for decades to relieve acute pain in the emergency room, operating room, on the battlefield and in the burn unit. Now, scientists are explaining how it helps with chronic neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is essentially pain that arises from a...

A Novel Approach to Suicide

There is an urgent need to treat those suffering from suicidal thoughts and attempts. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides up-to-date, startling statistics for the US and individual states. Reported annual completed suicides now hover at over...

PTSD: How Ketamine Can Help

“More than 70% of adults worldwide experience a traumatic event at some time in their lives, and 31% experience four or more events.” Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs anywhere from 1.3% to 12.2% in a lifetime. This depends on the country and people that...

What Is Ketamine Infusion Therapy?

The burden of depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and suicide are extreme and well documented. The National Institute of Health predicts depression will be the 2nd leading cause of disability in Western nations in the next 20 years. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of...

Treatment resistant depression
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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