Real Stories. Real Healing.

“When you live so low, it’s hard to imagine ever being up again.”

Melissa opens up about decades of trying everything—and how ketamine gave her a breakthrough she never expected.

Transcript
Melissa:
Before I found Northwest Ketamine Clinics, I was hopeless.

“Before I found Northwest Ketamine Clinics, I was hopeless.”

I have done individual therapy on and off since I was 16. My first antidepressant was when I was 17. I’ve done partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient hospitalization programs—I don’t know, you name it, I probably tried it.

When I called Northwest Ketamine Clinics, it was immediately like: This is what we do. This is why it’s safe.
This is… an answer to all my questions—even before I had said, Yes, I want to do this. So that was really helpful. That was really enlightening.

I got here, and I hadn’t seen the rooms before—and it was really cozy. It was nice and warm.

During my intake, they told me about all the extra things, like: You can ask for the weighted blanket. We have headphones. We have music. We have anti-nausea medication…

They just kind of talked me through the whole process.

“To see the ketamine work that well was a huge surprise to me.”

I mean, I got that hope that I was looking for.

Two months after I started ketamine, I just got a wild hair and was like, I’m gonna do jujitsu.
And it’s also been therapeutic in its own way—but not something that, before ketamine, I ever would have said, Yes, let me go do this thing.

“Two months after I started ketamine, I just got a wild hair and was like, I’m gonna do jujitsu.”

My other friends are just really glad that I found something that works—and happy that I can go do things with them, instead of going to the hospital.

When you live so low, it’s hard to imagine ever being up again.