Ketamine Therapy for Anxiety
Ketamine for Anxiety
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About Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal part of life and the body’s natural response to stress. Worries about work, family, money, and health are normal and the body is designed to handle these stressors. When the body experiences anxiousness, your brain releases hormones that activate in your body to help when dealing with dangerous or overwhelming situations. Click Here to learn more about anxiety.
How Ketamine Can Help
- Reduces anxiety and brings a feeling of relief
- Elevates mood
- Helps with concentration
- Improves sleeping, helps with insomnia
- Alleviates your pain by prompting your brain to create new neural pathways, helping combat anxiety.
- Effects physical reaction to anxiety like sweating, rapid heart rate, shaking, muscle and joint pain, nausea, headaches
- Aids with nervousness or restlessness, irritability and uncontrollable worry or fear
About Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal part of life and the body’s natural response to stress. Worries about work, family, money, and health are normal and the body is designed to handle these stressors. When the body experiences anxiousness, your brain releases hormones that activate in your body to help when dealing with dangerous or overwhelming situations. Click Here to learn more about anxiety.
How Ketamine Can Help
- Reduces anxiety and brings a feeling of relief
- Elevates mood
- Helps with concentration
- Improves sleeping, helps with insomnia
- Alleviates your pain by prompting your brain to create new neural pathways, helping combat anxiety.
- Effects physical reaction to anxiety like sweating, rapid heart rate, shaking, muscle and joint pain, nausea, headaches
- Aids with nervousness or restlessness, irritability and uncontrollable worry or fear
How Ketamine Works
Regulates glutamate, a vital neurotransmitter that helps us process thoughts and emotions.
Boosts neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn.
Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops that may contribute to anxiety and depression.
Helps control emotions and creates an anti-anxiety effect without unwanted side effects.
Ketamine offers new hope for lasting life change for those suffering from mental health conditions.
Get Started
If you’re ready to begin your journey, schedule a free consultation call with our patient care coordinator below. We’re happy to answer any and all questions you may have and are here to be your advocate on your journey to a better you.
Ketamine for Anxiety FAQs
Anxiety FAQs
Yes, ketamine therapy has been shown to be very effective when treating anxiety disorder, particularly when combined with conventional therapy (psychotherapy, for instance). If you have tried conventional therapy with mixed or no results, ketamine may be able to help. Read more here.
Ketamine infusion therapy works differently than traditional anxiety treatments. It helps to rewire your brain and has the ability to treat your anxiety for long term results and not just mask the daily symptoms.
It varies from patient to patient. We generally see results within a few hours after treatment with lasting results needing 6-10 infusions. Please schedule a consultation with our office so we can discuss your specific needs.
Yes! Ketamine is considered a World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicine and is one of the most commonly used anesthetics in the world because of its safety. Our Medical Director, Dr. Peck (Anesthesiologist), reviews all intakes and is available to speak with you directly if you have any concerns.
Check out our Pricing Page for our most up to date pricing.
We started NeuConnections because we wanted to help people and we are committed to keeping our pricing as low as possible to make this life changing therapy accessible. Ketamine treatment is an investment in mental health. Allow this self-care to become an investment in your wellbeing; an investment that grows and pays dividends that last a lifetime.
The first step is an initial consultation with our patient care coordinator to answer any questions and discuss if treatment is right for you.
Visit our Begin Intake page to schedule your free consultation.
Additional Information on Anxiety
Additional Information
Types of Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is when someone has a persistent feeling of anxiety or dread. People with this disorder can experience it for months or years. Often, those in First Responder and Medical Professions experience anxiety due to the constant stress from those careers. However, anxiety disorders can show in anyone that is having difficultly processing stressful situations. About 3.1% of the U.S. populations experience GAD but less than half receive treatment. GAD often co-occurs with major depression.
Panic Disorder (PD) is another type of anxiety disorder usually related to experiencing high stress situations or phobias repeatedly. Panic attacks are mostly severe with disruptive symptoms and people with anxiety are at an increased risk of experiencing them. 2.7% of the U.S. population experiences PD.
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) also called social phobia, is an intense anxiety or fear of being judged, negatively evaluated, or rejected in a social or performance situation. This often causes those experiencing this disorder to avoid social situations and can have strong physical symptoms when placed in these feared situations. 6.8% of adults in the U.S. experience SAD and it usually begins in teenage years.
People living with anxiety disorders, phobia disorders, and those dealing with panic attacks can experience many debilitating symptoms leading to further health concerns. When it comes to GAD, PD, SAD, and specific Phobias, women are twice as likely to be affected as men. (2. adaa.org)
Symptoms
There are several types of anxiety disorders each with their own symptoms. These are just a few of those symptoms:
- Nervousness or restlessness
- Uncontrollable worry or fear
- Difficulty concentrating
- Headaches
- Muscle and joint pain
- Difficulty sleeping
- Nausea
- Irritability
- Rapid heart rate
- Sweating
- Uncontrolled shaking
Physical symptoms during a panic attack can include: pounding or racing heart, sweating, chills, trembling, difficulty breathing, chest pain, and more. They come on suddenly and involve intense and often overwhelming fear.
How Does Ketamine Help Anxiety?
Ketamine Infusions work by directly impacting the brain chemicals involved in anxiety. When receiving a ketamine infusion, the medication temporarily blocks the glutamate receptors in the brain thereby increasing the production of glutamate. Glutamate is the most abundant amino acid in the brain responsible for the optimization of chemicals that enable clear thinking and stable emotions. Ketamine also triggers neurogenesis neurological connections that have laid dormant due to aging, stress and other factors and causes neural pathways to re-activate in healthy ways that can reduce anxiety and reinvigorate your mind. Some ketamine infusion patients experience immense relief within hours of their treatment and for others, improvement shows within the weeks following their second or third infusion. To achieve the highest levels of benefit, our patients complete treatment based on specific protocol and guidelines established by researchers and tested over years of treatment. Your individual needs, symptoms, and goals of care will be addressed to determine your course of treatment.
To schedule a free consultation with the experts at Denver’s NeuConnections to learn about ketamine for anxiety disorders, Call the Littleton, Colorado Office or click here to Begin Intake.
- Harvard Medical School, 2007. National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). (2017, August 21).
Retrieved from https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu
Data Table 1: Lifetime prevalence DSM-IV/WMH-CIDI disorders by sex and cohort. - ADAA Understanding Anxiety
- https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics
- Harvard Medical School, 2007. National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). (2017, August 21).
