Obsessive compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often trivialized by those who mean well but don’t understand the illness.  They often say things like “You’re so OCD, always keeping everything so clean.  What they fail to realize is that having OCD is not merely an eccentric habit and categorizing it as such does a disservice to the one suffering from the illness. In reality, OCD affects about 1 in 40 adults and severe forms of OCD take a massive toll on patients and their lives.

OCD is diagnosed as the presence of obsessions and/or compulsions that feel out of control, create significant stress and disrupt a person’s daily life.  Obsessions are characterized as persistent thoughts, impulses or images that cause distressing emotions such as anxiety or sometimes disgust.  Compulsions are repetitive actions or rituals that a person feels compelled to perform that provide temporary relief from their obsessive anxieties.  For example, if someone has an obsession with germs this will often manifest with a compulsion to constantly clean their home or wash their hands repetitively. 

Compared to traditional SSRIs that take weeks or months to work, ketamine infusion therapy works almost immediately and has fewer side effects. Ketamine breaks the obsessive though cycle in the brain and this is why it’s often referred to as the great pattern disruptor.  During the Ketamine infusion patients feel very relaxed and due to the psychedelic affect they are able to distance themselves from their thoughts and see their life from a different higher level view.  OCD creates repeating thoughts/behaviors and ketamine breaks the mold of these self imposed thoughts and allows us to disrupt this destructive pattern of thinking. Many patients find significant improvement of their symptoms after just one treatment but we recommend speaking with our doctor and seeing what course of treatment is best for you since everyone is different.  Give us a call and schedule your free consult today and get on the road to reclaiming the life you deserve.