Who is a Good Candidate for Ketamine treatment?
- Pine Ridge Mental Healthcare
- 15 minutes ago
- 2 min read
Ketamine therapy may be appropriate for adults with depression, anxiety, or PTSD who have not improved with traditional treatments.
Ketamine is not a first-line treatment for mental health conditions. At Pine Ridge Mental Healthcare, ketamine therapy is considered after a thorough psychiatric evaluation confirms that standard treatments have been ineffective or poorly tolerated.
Who May Be Eligible?
Good candidates often include individuals who:
Have treatment-resistant depression
Experience persistent anxiety or PTSD symptoms
Are able to follow structured treatment protocols
Do not have significant uncontrolled medical conditions
When Ketamine May Not Be Recommended
Ketamine therapy may not be appropriate for:
Patients over 65 (in-office treatment required)
Individuals with significant medical conditions
Patients with Medicaid coverage
Those requiring FDA-approved esketamine instead
In these cases, Spravato®, the FDA-approved nasal esketamine, may be recommended instead.
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Treatment For Long-Term Success
At Pine Ridge Mental Healthcare, we’ve found success using a variety of approaches to major depressive disorder. Discussing these approaches with a trusted provider is the first and most important step. Getting your depression under control is a key to improving how you feel.
Our mental health team works to reduce your reliance on medications by educating you about the different tools available and how life situations can affect your mood. In addition, we help keep you on track with regular check-ins to monitor how you are doing.
For help managing your health, schedule an appointment online or over the phone at Pine Ridge Mental Healthcare in Owasso, Oklahoma. If you are interested in other services we provide, check out our services page.
This content was written and reviewed by Pine Ridge Mental Healthcare, an outpatient psychiatry clinic in Oklahoma. Treatment decisions are made by licensed psychiatric providers based on individual evaluation.
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