Welcome to the brave new world of psychedelic wellness.
At seven o’clock on a recent evening, I dim the bedroom lights, call out a reminder to my boyfriend to rouse me in an hour with a gentle tap, and close the door. “Have a great trip,” I hear him say from the living room as the two ketamine tablets I’ve pressed into the pockets of my cheeks dissolve, leaving a bitter residue. Minutes later, I’m flying over water that reflects a sourceless golden light. Amthe light? The thought triggers a sensation of being stretched like taffy in all directions.
Intrigued, I did a little more digging and discovered that ketamine – a dissociative hallucinogen that is already legal for supervised medical use, including in the treatment of depression – seemed to draw out the mind in a way similar to psilocybin by putting the brain in a “neuroplastic” state, explains Julie Holland, MD, a New York-based psychiatrist and the author of the 2020 book“They have different chemical properties, but both ketamine and psilocybin have an ego-dissolving effect, where...
Because I’d chosen to work with Mindbloom, thanks to their Covid-friendly process, the setting for my four, hour-long treatments, was my bedroom. To be perfectly clear, I wasn’t microdosing. Nor was I popping a pill just to see what colours spilled out of my head. Prior to receiving my Mindbloom package, I spent over an hour on Zoom with a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner who quizzed me on everything from my family medical history to my typical responses to stress.
Easier said than done. My ketamine experiences were clarifying and often even profound, but they didn’t change certain nerve-racking facts of life, such as that I write for a living and thus have deadlines to meet if I wish to pay my bills. Or that it’s hard – like, really hard – to stay motivated in the midst of a global pandemic, when each day brings fresh spurs to panic and depression.
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