{"id":623,"date":"2017-12-22T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2017-12-22T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:26:29","slug":"studies-on-ketamine-in-fighting-suicidal-ideation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/studies-on-ketamine-in-fighting-suicidal-ideation\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies on Ketamine in Fighting Suicidal Ideation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/12\/171214164014.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/12\/171214164014.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The holidays can be stressful for some but for those people fighting depression the double-whammy of existing conditions and SAD (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/seasonal-affective-disorder\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20364651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seasonal Affective Disorder<\/a>) can be a very difficult combo.<\/p>\n<p>Came across the above news in several articles regarding the use of ketamine as a way to help reduce suicidal ideation in patients. While I found the article optimistic, I do hope folks tread cautiously.\u00a0 Ketamine&#8217;s addictive attributes make weaning off a frightening prospect. I do hope however that if the treatment proves fruitful that it will be another resource that people with depression can seek when stressors and their existing treatment course don&#8217;t seem to be enough.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, if you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to your mental health professional or a hotline. Link to the Suicide Prevention Hotline and their website below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/suicidepreventionlifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suicide Prevention Hotline<br \/>\n<\/a>1-800-273-8255<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/12\/171214164014.htm The holidays can be stressful for some but for those people fighting depression the double-whammy of existing conditions and SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) can be a very difficult combo. Came across the above news in several articles regarding the use of ketamine as a way to help reduce suicidal ideation in patients. While I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/studies-on-ketamine-in-fighting-suicidal-ideation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Studies on Ketamine in Fighting Suicidal Ideation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[89,15,34],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression","tag-ketamine","tag-news","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-a3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}