Ketamine, LSD and psilocybin containing mushroom are amazing. I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with cptsd. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
I'm so very happy for you, Psilocybin is absolutely amazing, the way it shows you things, the way it teaches you things. I can not believe our world and our people shows less interest about it's helpfulness to humanity. It's love. The mushrooms heals people by showing the truth, it would be so beneficial for so many people, especially politicians and the rich who have lost their way and every other persons out there.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
I am a disabled veteran. I participated in a VA experiment with IV ketamine administered in a clinical setting in 2019. The purpose was to end my dependency on opioids prescribed for my injuries. That was successful, as well as a tremendous increase in empathy. It took me years to try and understand the new thinking. I still work with therapy to make sense of and incorporate empathy into my life. Since leaving service in 2018, I now advocate for veterans and the healing aspects of creative arts. Anecdotally, I benefited immensely from this treatment. I still have the foundation of violence, but the core beliefs are not so rigid. I brought back an understanding that we are all parts of a greater whole, like different fingers of the same hand. To hate or hurt one hurts us all. Supporting one also supports all. I am optimistic about these treatments.
Interesting! I would love more details on how you tried to understand the new thinking with empathy. I am highly empathic, and I’ve been learning to tone mine down a bit. So I guess I had thought that when somebody was able to learn empathy, or have it come to them through some thing like ketamine that it would be similar to seeing an old friend. Does that make sense? Kind of like it’s a normal behavior that you were missing. I’ve never considered that someone would have to learn how to work with it, which takes me into another huge realm of questions! Have you considered writing about this, or making a video? Lol I would love to learn more about this. Thank you so much for sharing. I’m going to start trekking down this rabbit hole to see if there’s anything else out there but I’ll check back to see if you respond to this. Thank you!
Oh my goodness now I’m really going off on this concept of learning to be empathic and use empathy and that it’s a new way of thinking for you and others. And I’m beginning to wonder if empathy is indeed a normal human behavior. There are levels of severity on both ends, but perhaps the norm needs to be adjusted? It seems to me that from my informal yet extensive research that the norm may lie more to ‘very minimal empathy’ in the majority of people….Sorry told you I was going off on a trek. I should probably be recording this in my own notes instead of your feed in TH-cam. Lol but this is a huge shift in my thinking about this presumed normal behavior.
@angierox6964 , empathy is human. I'm the outlier. Conversations like this are helping me to understand how to talk about the experience. Truly, thank you for the conversation. My childhood was abusive, violent, and lonely. Probably why I was a good fit for the Army. I thought my capacity to take punishment was my superpower. After the ketamine, while in session with a therapist, the therapist gave me a genuine and kind compliment. I went into fight/flight and thought I was about to be attacked. Then I cried my face off. Kindness was processed as a trick, or predicate to violence. I had to learn I was familiar with negative experiences which made them feel comfortable to me, and avoided pleasant experiences for fear of danger. I started participating with a performance therapy group. The Veteran Civilian Arts Ensemble. The last 3 years of surrender to the process has been rewriting my neuropathways and changing how I relate to the community. After a trauma filled life, I'm discovering what kindness and compassion feel like. There's a page on strazcenter dot org that talks a little about my journey. The ketamine isn't mentioned, but more of the journey is. Search my name on the site if you want. Also search "Arts and Health" I think you'll like the conversations they have regarding healing and the creative arts. Your encouraging words are well received. I am on a journey to advocate for others.
@@theodorerooding3536 could you give me an example of your lack of empathy compared to what it feels like now after doing healing work and re-wiring and surrendering. ? My mother and most probably my father who left many years ago has NPD and I definitely healing but I am very curious about how people with NPD think. I’m also a therapist, but I haven’t practiced for about eight years I’ve started a small business, but would like to get back into practicing now that I feel like I’m healing.
@@oldladyjamz perhaps once they get arrested and they have a choice to go to jail or have ketamine treatment that might be a way to get them to take it?
Your channel helped me decide to get ketamine treatments for my depression and they saved my life. I do feel a deep sense of connection and love during the treatment so this makes a lot of sense. It would be wonderful to see ketamine become more widely available to people who need it.
As an autistic person, what came immediately to my mind was the fact that social interactions were to be more nourishing and satisfying. Most of us become completely depleted from trying to read social cues and being misunderstood as well as understanding others, and that makes gathering almost like a trauma, like something to avoid at all cost. As our society is built on social networks, it is really a disability to be on the spectrum to that regard. I would be absolutely thrilled to try it and see if it's easier to navigate the world with all the social encounters it requires 🙂
Thank you for sharing. I will be working in a class of children with autism come august, and I’ve saved this comment as a reminder of their perspective. Hopefully we can build some routines to make social interaction more tolerable and plan breaks where the students have daily alone time to study as well.
I'm really touched by your caring! I would assume you studied for interacting with kids on the spectrum, but I would suggest you follow autistic adults on TH-cam that specifically speaks about autistic challenges and what can help. As I am also a mom of an autistic child, it's really easier for me to just know how to accompany him on his journey, cause I get it from the inside. I did a lot of "scripts" for him, so he can manage social situations easier - as for me, I had to study psychology just to start to have a clue! Because I only got my diagnosis at 41... So I'm giving him the keys right away. It's a lot of "in that situation, you say that", "in that situation, you do that", like he needs to learn "a procedure" for all contexts, as it's not intuitive at all for us, and it can look like we are rude. He's now doing really great, he has a lot of friends (that wasn't always the case) ☺️ Good luck!
I treat autistic children. They are befuddled by social cues, for the most part. Things that we see infants understand without effort. No question in my mind that this is a hardwired brain difference, not a psychological problem or something that can be taught. Like someone who isn't a native speaker people who have strokes and can't walk smoothly, people with autism will always be challenged because they are trying to "think" through a subconscious neurological process.
I can say from experience that I was already empathetic and kind. After using the prescription Troches for months it helped me to stop being afraid of speaking about my trauma. Now I feel very protective of those who are troubled and being ignored, not listened to, or misunderstood. Definitely more empathetic to the people I see lost in addiction and to the homeless since it's really expensive here.
I used ketamine therapy to treat my depression several years ago. In conjunction with CBT and other therapy modalities for trauma, I was able to achieve relief from depression. Additionally, as an autistic person, I am now very intrigued by how much the ketamine therapy helped with my ability to connect with others. I am significantly more connected to my emotions now, and I do attribute that to the healing work I've done and perhaps ketamine assisted here, too.
@@DrTraceyMarks I was going to post a similar comment. I just found your site and I will likely be watching every video you have posted. Your work is awesome. It’s short but packed with information and inspiration. You knock it out of the ballpark doctor. I’ve already shared your site as I can’t imagine anyone who wouldn’t benefit from the information you provide. I would venture to guess you have turned many lives around for those who are greatly suffering and quite possibly even saved some lives. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It’s all business as usual. And it will continue to be that for a long time, I believe. I got such bad vibes from the photo of the guy in this video,(the scientist, or doctor or whatever he is)I I found it really off putting. There’s something about his eyes. - However, I am glad to hear it might help those who really need it, even if it won’t have the biggest effect, any effect is better than nothing. A little tweaking to their core, a small behavioral change could absolutely benefit those around them who might suffer from being around a less empathetic person.
I have ADHD and ASD and I’ve been using micro dosing with psilocybin and it really saved my life. I still not interested in classic social communications, id prefer my special interest in psychiatry. But now I can do some small talk. But more important benefits i have on my mood, sleep and concentration. Also it’s easier to change my schedule or routine. I’m totally into
@@Themesyndrome no, not legal. But I'm doing a lot of stuff to change it. My psy now what im doing and we speek a lot about it, but yeah it's not legal
You are young enough to be excited. I was exited in 2017 when new research proved the effect of ketamine, psychedelics proving highly helpful for tx. resistant MDD and PTSD. After waiting 7 years my excitement is now only for those will still be alive, when these revolutionary treatments are covered by regular medical insurance. Definite progress in knowledge, NOT in offering help yet to clients.🙏
Being administered by professionals in the field rather than individuals having to self treat and not know how. No longer having to guess what will work when your field of expertise would be beneficial elsewhere.
I know. I might not live long enough to find relief from these amazing plants our government says we can’t consume. No problem if I’m a heavy smoker dying of cancer or an alcoholic slowly killing myself. No common sense in our world
Hi Tracey - I love your enthusiasm for cutting-edge therapy's and your joy in sharing psychiatric lit with the masses. An important typo you should fix in your captiosn. In the line at 08:35-08:36, edit it to "Worry you? A little bit of both?" rather than "Were you a little bit of both?" That matches what the context is and what I think the audio says. You did another good video on transnasal oxytocin therapy for BPD. I do appreciate that you say these therapy's sare only going to be used as an auxillary tx. I also appreciate the citations in the description! Have a great week, Dr Marks!!!!!!!!
This is absolutely fascinating! Obviously our emotions are largely chemical and electrical processes in our brain, but the fact we are starting to find ways to work around certain "deficiencies" and help people not only feel better, but in the long-term increase their well-being even more by making it easier for them to build connections and community around them, which is so important to maintaining mental health... yeah I'm excited to see where this goes.
Hello Dr. Marks, I appreciate your educational videos. Where in the US should a person move to receive these new treatments for depression, ADHD, CPTSD, etc. I have visited with my local doctor and none of the treatment options you discuss are available where I live. Thank you.
Excellent study! The research with the rats is interesting, and thanks for explaining how the rat and human brain has similarities that allow for research. Dr stated that the FDA is about one month away from the time of this recording to making a decision about MDMA. Why didn’t she state the date, today’s date. And why is that the norm? Is it a ‘thing’, is it done purposefully? Kind of like when you watch movies and they never show money numbers. It’s always written on a piece of paper or some such thing. The up loaded date doesn’t help much because the video could have been recorded three years ago. So yeah , is this done purposefully or is it something that people just don’t think about?
I think there should be a distinction between being empathetic and being pro-social. I am a hyper-empathetic AuDHD person , both affectively and cognitively, and that hasn't changed despite having severe treatment-resistant depression. When I started my ketamine treatments, it made me more engaged and more interested in interacting with other people, but that never affected how my empathy worked. I didn't become more social because I was thinking about how other people felt, because how other people felt wasn't a factor in my depression making me anti-social. What it did do was address my anhedonia, low motivation, and feelings of connectedness, which I think has a side affect of helping me feel more pro-social. Could it help people who lack empathy? Sure, I think being more pro-social does do that, but I think the mechanism for how it gets there is different than what was described in this video. I honestly don't think it would help an autistic individual who lacks cognitive empathy. Many autistic people are pro-social and want desperately to connect already, so having an enhanced interest and feeling of connectedness wouldn't really help the fact that they lack cognitive empathy. Ketamine gives the motivation to connect, not the neural wiring it takes to cognitively understand other humans. At least in my experience of ketamine. Obviously I am only one person, but that is my take on it given what I have experienced.
This is my experience as well. I have to put in the work to be social, which ketamine does help with, but if I don't do that work or have a good support network already I sort of feel that it makes it worse. Like I want to connect but when I can't due to work or other reasons it seems to make me feel worse.
Hi Tracey, very interesting video. The Portuguese translation was made by AI? It just automatically played for me. It's odd/unnatural in some parts of the video, with same randon words overlapping the main speech. In some parts I have the impression that some of those words were in Spanish. I ended up switching back to English to hear you in the way you are. Best regards.
Yes, this sounds like it could be helpful for people with NPD ( narcissistic personality disorder ) and others with ASPD in conjunction with therapy to teach non-toxic / non-abusive behaviors !
Curious if these findings would generalize to esketamine or if would get FDA approval? It's been sad to me how much more effective ketamine is than esketamine for depression. I wish research on ketamine was more well funded but no one is making money from a med that's been around so long. Talk about empathy
I don't think ketamine is what is making you care more, I think that apathy is more of a symptom of depression, and treating it lessens the symptoms. this happened for me with marijuana, I started feeling more empathic reactions to things once I started using it.
I'm really interested in your presentation. My two children and their father, my ex-husband, seem to be completely without empathy. They have zero understanding of others suffering and scoff at it. Whereas I'm too much of an empathetic. Are there any chances to get my son into a study/clinical research?
It’s nice you use TH-cam’s multi-language audio tool. However, speaking for the German translation, it is partly very hard to understand, as another voice regularly shouts something inbetween the text of the main voice. 😀 Sometimes, sentences are cut off at the beginning or end.
When do you know if an antidepressant is not for you? I’ve been on Viibryd for 3 days and I’ve had a lot of anxiety, 1 panic attack, can’t eat, nausea, diarrhea, can’t sleep, and dizzy. I’m scared to keep taking it. I’m in bed because it’s so bad. I now have no energy to pack my home. We are moving and this medication has messed me up mentally. Any advice?? Thank you
I’m dealing with my granddaughter who has body dysmorphic disorder accompanied by clinical depression and anxiety. My daughter and I have been researching ketamine and we both feel very encouraged by what we’re finding. We both have a lot of hope that ketamine will help the beautiful young lady we desperately want to find something to help her. Right now we are both struggling to find something that will help her with these devastating conditions.
Dr. Marks, I am a Masters level Licensed Professional Counselor. Would attending medical school and specializing in Psychiatry give me the type of depth of understanding that you have?? Like seriously. Please advise!
Can’t doctors prescribe ketamine from a compounding pharmacy in different forms like capsules and lozenges? If so how do you find a dr willing to do it? I’d love a reply, Doctor
Amazing, thank you!! When you were talking about the rats it occurred to me that some of us might have an unbalanced amount of empathy & will ignore their own hunger, needs, etc to protect the others to a harmful degree to self? Would that be a chemical imbalance that could also be corrected by Ketamine? I wonder if there was a perfect recipe for mental health at some point & some chemical got suppressed along the way? Either way,I want to try it for social anxiety!! 😊
Hi Tracy I living good life very miserable depression people say go have fun socialize listen to music and you be cured what message do you have for them
Could be awesome treatment, but just the potential can also have it being abused and make people suffer through their emotional connection with others - I've been sorta "hyper-empathic" for as long as I can remember and only after burning out through suffering the pain of my last long-term partner and still best friend, I sorta burned out through it completely and then got some long-overdue Therapy and Diagnoses...and the "good" thing about his was, that all the Trauma and (C)PTSD sorta helped me stop the constant and out of my power connectedness with everyone I ever encountered and allowed me for the first time to only "read people" cognitively...there's a little higher rate of error in that one because the hunches are gone that I could sense through my emotional Empathy reading of others (but which I usually dismissed/ignored anyway to my own detriment, but at least I remember them being there pretty much all the time and my unconscious mind getting a bit more accurate readings in general out of it had I only not ignored these low-key doubts about people). So, yeah, increasing other people's Empathy and helping them understand (best to prepare them cognitively first, because that can open a whole new World of perceived information to them then and if they get overwhelmed, they are also more likely to get bs-ed by conspiracy theories/lies or "esoteric fiction" narratives - like I was as a young adult) what it is they feel when it sets in, would be really important though...otherwise it can also lead people astray or become co-dependent quicker than most of us want to imagine....
It sounds like this could be true. Let me be clear druk isn't going to make you more caring. It just opens you up to more experiences of emotion. So it will make you more emphatically if you never experienced the feelings or not that high. It gives you a new outlook on the human experience
I remember a 2017 paper by Robin Carhart-Harris that identifies 'connectedness' as a core feature of the way in which psychedelic therapy likely improves mental health. Ketamine is not a classic psychedelic and neither is MDMA so I wonder what is happening at the neurocircuitry level that they all induce these positive changes.
I have been taking ketamine for 18 months and I would have to say it’s been amazing and effective for pulling me out of a deep depression. Does it make you care more? I don’t know about that but I do know it helped me actually have true feelings again.
I’ve had 2 ketamine infusions for pain management. I also have ptsd, depression, anxiety and am dealing with depression resistant medications. I’ve been on antidepressants for 40 years and haven’t had much luck. I believe ketamine has helped reduce the sharpness of my pain as well as slowing down my racing mind. Now pain management wants to prescribe me Memantine post infusions. This medicine is prescribed for dementia/alzheimers patients. Memantine treats memory loss. Do you have any information or knowledge of this medication helping with pain management and depression? I sure need understanding. I appreciate and learn from your experience and videos. Thanks.
This makes sense. Because Psilocybin mushrooms sure do seem to do the same thing. I actually think it improved my relationship by removing the ego and allowing me and my partner to be completely honest and open in our communication and emotions.
I am suffering from clinical depression panic attacks and cpts I took psychiatric medication most of my life but it made my situation even worse. Where I live the use of mushrooms is prohibited. We do not even have specialized doctors for it. I would travel to another country just to get treated with mushrooms. I keep reading the testimonies of people how it changed their life to the better. I just want to feel normal and not depressed once in my life
I'd say I'm a little less empathetic and emotional because I'm taking Escitalopram. I received a series of Spravato (Esketamine) sessions to boost my antidepressant response. I know everyone is different, but it didn't help at all. I just felt relaxed while I got it, but no effects on my low energy and "wanting-to-isolate-" symptoms. The only thing that helped with my fatigue and low energy was 1 mg of Aripiprazole. With 2 mg I already had too much akathisia. Before that not even ECT or rTMS have done anything. Unfortunately, in Germany it's not as common to use aripiprazole because it's not officially approved for depression, so it's an off-label prescription.
Can you do a delve into the micro-dosing of GLP-1 medications benefits. I have seen several podcasts recently of how it can help with addictions, obsessive thinking, isolating and depression. Alternatively when it is dosed with the increasing doses for the weight loss effect; I have heard negative things.
Anyone else found tramadol to be, not only an excellent anti-anxiety med but also really good as an empathogen, just like mdma? I've always assumed it results from oxytocin release. I wonder how effective oxytocin is when used directly and how that compares to ketamine etc.
I’ve been thinking that psychedelics could “cure” narcissists because it would reconnect their egos to their souls. It’s based on my experiences with mescaline and psilocybin… complete dissolution of ego boundaries and experiencing that we are each an expression of God.
This is an exciting development! But, animal testing is not cool. It's one thing to test life-saving treatments on animals, because the benefit outweighs the harm. But in a case like this, it just seems gratuitously malicious to shock rats and scare their cagemates.
I understand you are referring specifically to the uncomfortable electrical shocks given to these rats. Unless they are complete psychopaths (which in this case would be ironic given they are testing for empathy), researchers develop methodologies to test psychological hypotheses with the animals' welfare in mind. The shocks are not gratuitous. However, your comment can be construed more broadly. New medicines or vaccines cannot be developed without animal models. I don't know the ins and outs of how the FDA regulates pharmaceutical testing, but animal models are necessary before moving to limited human trials. Animal testing for cosmetics has thankfully gone by the wayside except for a few corporations.
4:06 omg I own rats and the idea that one would give up a sugar pellet for a cagemate is WILD- they do have empathy, and their little social circles are real
I know I have cognitive empathy, but i don't "Feel" for others because I'm too busy feeling my own painful emotions, which I can not turn off. And I'm often irritable and unpleasant to be around because I'm too engulfed in my personal hell. I isolate because I don't want put that around others.
@@annetallegrand5656 Too much for my own good, meaning it would be better for me to have less. For example I struggle watching competition of any type. I get so anxious it feels like I am the one on the stage. Watching the opening ceremony for the olympics also made my stomach do flips. Every single athlete must have felt so much. Wanting to win, to make their people proud... That doesn't sound very productive to me xD It definetly takes up space so I struggle to take care of myself though.
@@DrTraceyMarks Must be! Usually I’ll be watching a video and eventually you’ll talk about how ketamine and shrooms may be used to treat mood disorders or ptsd in the future, but I’m probably thinking hyperbolically about this.
@@Meandmymirror Progress can't be stopped and people will see sooner than later that banning LSD and other substances (I'm talking MDMA and the like, not heroin) was stupid
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Ketamine, LSD and psilocybin containing mushroom are amazing. I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with cptsd. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
I'm so very happy for you, Psilocybin is absolutely amazing, the way it shows you things, the way it teaches you things. I can not believe our world and our people shows less interest about it's helpfulness to humanity. It's love. The mushrooms heals people by showing the truth, it would be so beneficial for so many people, especially politicians and the rich who have lost their way and every other persons out there.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
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Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
How do I reach out to him? Is he on Facebook
I am a disabled veteran. I participated in a VA experiment with IV ketamine administered in a clinical setting in 2019. The purpose was to end my dependency on opioids prescribed for my injuries. That was successful, as well as a tremendous increase in empathy.
It took me years to try and understand the new thinking. I still work with therapy to make sense of and incorporate empathy into my life.
Since leaving service in 2018, I now advocate for veterans and the healing aspects of creative arts.
Anecdotally, I benefited immensely from this treatment. I still have the foundation of violence, but the core beliefs are not so rigid.
I brought back an understanding that we are all parts of a greater whole, like different fingers of the same hand. To hate or hurt one hurts us all. Supporting one also supports all. I am optimistic about these treatments.
Interesting! I would love more details on how you tried to understand the new thinking with empathy. I am highly empathic, and I’ve been learning to tone mine down a bit. So I guess I had thought that when somebody was able to learn empathy, or have it come to them through some thing like ketamine that it would be similar to seeing an old friend. Does that make sense? Kind of like it’s a normal behavior that you were missing. I’ve never considered that someone would have to learn how to work with it, which takes me into another huge realm of questions!
Have you considered writing about this, or making a video? Lol I would love to learn more about this. Thank you so much for sharing. I’m going to start trekking down this rabbit hole to see if there’s anything else out there but I’ll check back to see if you respond to this. Thank you!
Oh my goodness now I’m really going off on this concept of learning to be empathic and use empathy and that it’s a new way of thinking for you and others.
And I’m beginning to wonder if empathy is indeed a normal human behavior. There are levels of severity on both ends, but perhaps the norm needs to be adjusted? It seems to me that from my informal yet extensive research that the norm may lie more to ‘very minimal empathy’ in the majority of people….Sorry told you I was going off on a trek.
I should probably be recording this in my own notes instead of your feed in TH-cam. Lol but this is a huge shift in my thinking about this presumed normal behavior.
@@angierox6964 empathy is absolutely a natural human behavior. you aren't broken at all if you have it, rather the opposite
@angierox6964 , empathy is human. I'm the outlier.
Conversations like this are helping me to understand how to talk about the experience. Truly, thank you for the conversation.
My childhood was abusive, violent, and lonely. Probably why I was a good fit for the Army. I thought my capacity to take punishment was my superpower.
After the ketamine, while in session with a therapist, the therapist gave me a genuine and kind compliment.
I went into fight/flight and thought I was about to be attacked. Then I cried my face off.
Kindness was processed as a trick, or predicate to violence. I had to learn I was familiar with negative experiences which made them feel comfortable to me, and avoided pleasant experiences for fear of danger.
I started participating with a performance therapy group. The Veteran Civilian Arts Ensemble. The last 3 years of surrender to the process has been rewriting my neuropathways and changing how I relate to the community.
After a trauma filled life, I'm discovering what kindness and compassion feel like.
There's a page on strazcenter dot org that talks a little about my journey. The ketamine isn't mentioned, but more of the journey is.
Search my name on the site if you want. Also search "Arts and Health" I think you'll like the conversations they have regarding healing and the creative arts.
Your encouraging words are well received. I am on a journey to advocate for others.
@@theodorerooding3536 could you give me an example of your lack of empathy compared to what it feels like now after doing healing work and re-wiring and surrendering. ? My mother and most probably my father who left many years ago has NPD and I definitely healing but I am very curious about how people with NPD think. I’m also a therapist, but I haven’t practiced for about eight years I’ve started a small business, but would like to get back into practicing now that I feel like I’m healing.
A possible use for helping people that suffer from narcissism? That would be life changing for them and the people they react with.
Yes, NPD and ASPD in particular.
Except narcissistic people do not think they are suffering and will not seek treatment. They think they are perfect.
@@oldladyjamz perhaps once they get arrested and they have a choice to go to jail or have ketamine treatment that might be a way to get them to take it?
Really I would be interested in improving narcissistic behaviors
Your channel helped me decide to get ketamine treatments for my depression and they saved my life. I do feel a deep sense of connection and love during the treatment so this makes a lot of sense. It would be wonderful to see ketamine become more widely available to people who need it.
I'm proud of you!!
What kind of ketimine
@@Themesyndrome I’ve had the IM injections and I’m currently on spravato
As an autistic person, what came immediately to my mind was the fact that social interactions were to be more nourishing and satisfying. Most of us become completely depleted from trying to read social cues and being misunderstood as well as understanding others, and that makes gathering almost like a trauma, like something to avoid at all cost. As our society is built on social networks, it is really a disability to be on the spectrum to that regard. I would be absolutely thrilled to try it and see if it's easier to navigate the world with all the social encounters it requires 🙂
Thank you for sharing. I will be working in a class of children with autism come august, and I’ve saved this comment as a reminder of their perspective. Hopefully we can build some routines to make social interaction more tolerable and plan breaks where the students have daily alone time to study as well.
@@njohansson2092Thank you ❤
I'm really touched by your caring! I would assume you studied for interacting with kids on the spectrum, but I would suggest you follow autistic adults on TH-cam that specifically speaks about autistic challenges and what can help. As I am also a mom of an autistic child, it's really easier for me to just know how to accompany him on his journey, cause I get it from the inside. I did a lot of "scripts" for him, so he can manage social situations easier - as for me, I had to study psychology just to start to have a clue! Because I only got my diagnosis at 41... So I'm giving him the keys right away. It's a lot of "in that situation, you say that", "in that situation, you do that", like he needs to learn "a procedure" for all contexts, as it's not intuitive at all for us, and it can look like we are rude. He's now doing really great, he has a lot of friends (that wasn't always the case) ☺️ Good luck!
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I treat autistic children. They are befuddled by social cues, for the most part. Things that we see infants understand without effort. No question in my mind that this is a hardwired brain difference, not a psychological problem or something that can be taught. Like someone who isn't a native speaker people who have strokes and can't walk smoothly, people with autism will always be challenged because they are trying to "think" through a subconscious neurological process.
I can say from experience that I was already empathetic and kind. After using the prescription Troches for months it helped me to stop being afraid of speaking about my trauma. Now I feel very protective of those who are troubled and being ignored, not listened to, or misunderstood. Definitely more empathetic to the people I see lost in addiction and to the homeless since it's really expensive here.
How did you obtain a green light for this prescription if you don't mind sharing?
I used ketamine therapy to treat my depression several years ago. In conjunction with CBT and other therapy modalities for trauma, I was able to achieve relief from depression. Additionally, as an autistic person, I am now very intrigued by how much the ketamine therapy helped with my ability to connect with others. I am significantly more connected to my emotions now, and I do attribute that to the healing work I've done and perhaps ketamine assisted here, too.
Love your work Tracey, you are doing an amazing job for mental health sufferers ❤
Thank you!!🙏🏽
@@DrTraceyMarks
I was going to post a similar comment. I just found your site and I will likely be watching every video you have posted. Your work is awesome. It’s short but packed with information and inspiration. You knock it out of the ballpark doctor. I’ve already shared your site as I can’t imagine anyone who wouldn’t benefit from the information you provide. I would venture to guess you have turned many lives around for those who are greatly suffering and quite possibly even saved some lives. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
How awesome is this for sociopaths,narcissists and narcissistic people🎉❤
I just wish Ketamine therapy was more available and affordable, aside from all the mail-order gimmicks
It’s all business as usual. And it will continue to be that for a long time, I believe. I got such bad vibes from the photo of the guy in this video,(the scientist, or doctor or whatever he is)I
I found it really off putting. There’s something about his eyes.
- However, I am glad to hear it might help those who really need it, even if it won’t have the biggest effect, any effect is better than nothing.
A little tweaking to their core, a small behavioral change could absolutely benefit those around them who might suffer from being around a less empathetic person.
I have ADHD and ASD and I’ve been using micro dosing with psilocybin and it really saved my life. I still not interested in classic social communications, id prefer my special interest in psychiatry. But now I can do some small talk. But more important benefits i have on my mood, sleep and concentration. Also it’s easier to change my schedule or routine. I’m totally into
Is it legal where you live ? And is it prescribed or sold in a place or individual?
@@Themesyndrome no, not legal. But I'm doing a lot of stuff to change it. My psy now what im doing and we speek a lot about it, but yeah it's not legal
I'm excited about this information.
If this is true, about 75% of the US population needs it!
You are young enough to be excited. I was exited in 2017 when new research proved the effect of ketamine, psychedelics proving highly helpful for tx. resistant MDD and PTSD. After waiting 7 years my excitement is now only for those will still be alive, when these revolutionary treatments are covered by regular medical insurance. Definite progress in knowledge, NOT in offering help yet to clients.🙏
Being administered by professionals in the field rather than individuals having to self treat and not know how. No longer having to guess what will work when your field of expertise would be beneficial elsewhere.
I hear this!
I know. I might not live long enough to find relief from these amazing plants our government says we can’t consume. No problem if I’m a heavy smoker dying of cancer or an alcoholic slowly killing myself. No common sense in our world
Hi Tracey - I love your enthusiasm for cutting-edge therapy's and your joy in sharing psychiatric lit with the masses. An important typo you should fix in your captiosn. In the line at 08:35-08:36, edit it to "Worry you? A little bit of both?" rather than "Were you a little bit of both?" That matches what the context is and what I think the audio says. You did another good video on transnasal oxytocin therapy for BPD. I do appreciate that you say these therapy's sare only going to be used as an auxillary tx. I also appreciate the citations in the description! Have a great week, Dr Marks!!!!!!!!
Man, I love this channel ❤
Thanks so much!
This is absolutely fascinating! Obviously our emotions are largely chemical and electrical processes in our brain, but the fact we are starting to find ways to work around certain "deficiencies" and help people not only feel better, but in the long-term increase their well-being even more by making it easier for them to build connections and community around them, which is so important to maintaining mental health... yeah I'm excited to see where this goes.
I was on Spravato for a year and it completely changed my life!
I’m trying to do it again. Having trouble Finding a doctor that takes Medicare.
Trying to get back on it. Waiting to see if insurance will pay!
Loving all your updates on ketamine. Thanks!
So exciting! Can’t wait to see where this research goes
Prozac has done this for me. But I am also considering the ketamine treatments. This video and the comments were very helpful!
Hello Dr. Marks, I appreciate your educational videos. May God Bless you with all good things.
Thank for providing such brilliant insight. It has truly helped. ❤
A really good video❤thx Tracey!
Hello Dr. Marks, I appreciate your educational videos. Where in the US should a person move to receive these new treatments for depression, ADHD, CPTSD, etc. I have visited with my local doctor and none of the treatment options you discuss are available where I live. Thank you.
I’d love to know that too!
Thank you for sharing this valuable information Dr. Marks. 😊
Excellent study! The research with the rats is interesting, and thanks for explaining how the rat and human brain has similarities that allow for research. Dr stated that the FDA is about one month away from the time of this recording to making a decision about MDMA. Why didn’t she state the date, today’s date. And why is that the norm? Is it a ‘thing’, is it done purposefully? Kind of like when you watch movies and they never show money numbers. It’s always written on a piece of paper or some such thing. The up loaded date doesn’t help much because the video could have been recorded three years ago. So yeah , is this done purposefully or is it something that people just don’t think about?
I want to keep a close look at this.
What about people with treatment resistant depression that present people pleasing and savior complex? Would ketamine treatment enhance this features?
This is so exciting
I think there should be a distinction between being empathetic and being pro-social. I am a hyper-empathetic AuDHD person , both affectively and cognitively, and that hasn't changed despite having severe treatment-resistant depression. When I started my ketamine treatments, it made me more engaged and more interested in interacting with other people, but that never affected how my empathy worked. I didn't become more social because I was thinking about how other people felt, because how other people felt wasn't a factor in my depression making me anti-social. What it did do was address my anhedonia, low motivation, and feelings of connectedness, which I think has a side affect of helping me feel more pro-social. Could it help people who lack empathy? Sure, I think being more pro-social does do that, but I think the mechanism for how it gets there is different than what was described in this video.
I honestly don't think it would help an autistic individual who lacks cognitive empathy. Many autistic people are pro-social and want desperately to connect already, so having an enhanced interest and feeling of connectedness wouldn't really help the fact that they lack cognitive empathy. Ketamine gives the motivation to connect, not the neural wiring it takes to cognitively understand other humans. At least in my experience of ketamine. Obviously I am only one person, but that is my take on it given what I have experienced.
This is my experience as well. I have to put in the work to be social, which ketamine does help with, but if I don't do that work or have a good support network already I sort of feel that it makes it worse. Like I want to connect but when I can't due to work or other reasons it seems to make me feel worse.
Thank you! I wonder how this might help with autism/spectrum behaviors. I love all your content! 😊
Hi Tracey, very interesting video. The Portuguese translation was made by AI? It just automatically played for me. It's odd/unnatural in some parts of the video, with same randon words overlapping the main speech. In some parts I have the impression that some of those words were in Spanish. I ended up switching back to English to hear you in the way you are. Best regards.
Thank you Doctor for interesting video. ❤
Yes, this sounds like it could be helpful for people with NPD ( narcissistic personality disorder ) and others with ASPD in conjunction with therapy to teach non-toxic / non-abusive behaviors !
They never get therapy!
Curious if these findings would generalize to esketamine or if would get FDA approval? It's been sad to me how much more effective ketamine is than esketamine for depression. I wish research on ketamine was more well funded but no one is making money from a med that's been around so long. Talk about empathy
draaa we need thta you talk about hyperventilation causes caused by anxiety
I don't think ketamine is what is making you care more, I think that apathy is more of a symptom of depression, and treating it lessens the symptoms. this happened for me with marijuana, I started feeling more empathic reactions to things once I started using it.
It's likely that the one posting the video knows more about this than you do.
Yes, your opinion and feelings as a layperson are more valid than the professional and science based information provided in the video. 🙄
video on irrational fear aging body dysmorphic disorder, ocd. , date related ocd past related , chronic regret
How would this work with schizophrenic emotional blunting and negative symptoms?
Dr Marks what is your opinion about neurofeedback techniques?
Thank you
I'm really interested in your presentation. My two children and their father, my ex-husband, seem to be completely without empathy. They have zero understanding of others suffering and scoff at it. Whereas I'm too much of an empathetic. Are there any chances to get my son into a study/clinical research?
Does this work for Spravato as well?
Thank you for this.
It’s nice you use TH-cam’s multi-language audio tool. However, speaking for the German translation, it is partly very hard to understand, as another voice regularly shouts something inbetween the text of the main voice. 😀 Sometimes, sentences are cut off at the beginning or end.
When do you know if an antidepressant is not for you? I’ve been on Viibryd for 3 days and I’ve had a lot of anxiety, 1 panic attack, can’t eat, nausea, diarrhea, can’t sleep, and dizzy. I’m scared to keep taking it. I’m in bed because it’s so bad. I now have no energy to pack my home. We are moving and this medication has messed me up mentally. Any advice?? Thank you
As I had that as a teen I do see how that would work .😊
Make a video about body dysmorphic disorder again
I’m dealing with my granddaughter who has body dysmorphic disorder accompanied by clinical depression and anxiety. My daughter and I have been researching ketamine and we both feel very encouraged by what we’re finding. We both have a lot of hope that ketamine will help the beautiful young lady we desperately want to find something to help her. Right now we are both struggling to find something that will help her with these devastating conditions.
@@SEHardy-pd2mm same here
Is there any single dose that will make me care less if possible?
Cuz that what I really need
Dr. Marks, I am a Masters level Licensed Professional Counselor. Would attending medical school and specializing in Psychiatry give me the type of depth of understanding that you have?? Like seriously. Please advise!
Can’t doctors prescribe ketamine from a compounding pharmacy in different forms like capsules and lozenges? If so how do you find a dr willing to do it? I’d love a reply, Doctor
Amazing, thank you!! When you were talking about the rats it occurred to me that some of us might have an unbalanced amount of empathy & will ignore their own hunger, needs, etc to protect the others to a harmful degree to self? Would that be a chemical imbalance that could also be corrected by Ketamine? I wonder if there was a perfect recipe for mental health at some point & some chemical got suppressed along the way? Either way,I want to try it for social anxiety!! 😊
I have anhedonia along with depression. I'd love to try this but insurance doesn't cover it. Maybe someday it will. ☹️
Hi Tracy I living good life very miserable depression people say go have fun socialize listen to music and you be cured what message do you have for them
Could be awesome treatment, but just the potential can also have it being abused and make people suffer through their emotional connection with others - I've been sorta "hyper-empathic" for as long as I can remember and only after burning out through suffering the pain of my last long-term partner and still best friend, I sorta burned out through it completely and then got some long-overdue Therapy and Diagnoses...and the "good" thing about his was, that all the Trauma and (C)PTSD sorta helped me stop the constant and out of my power connectedness with everyone I ever encountered and allowed me for the first time to only "read people" cognitively...there's a little higher rate of error in that one because the hunches are gone that I could sense through my emotional Empathy reading of others (but which I usually dismissed/ignored anyway to my own detriment, but at least I remember them being there pretty much all the time and my unconscious mind getting a bit more accurate readings in general out of it had I only not ignored these low-key doubts about people).
So, yeah, increasing other people's Empathy and helping them understand (best to prepare them cognitively first, because that can open a whole new World of perceived information to them then and if they get overwhelmed, they are also more likely to get bs-ed by conspiracy theories/lies or "esoteric fiction" narratives - like I was as a young adult) what it is they feel when it sets in, would be really important though...otherwise it can also lead people astray or become co-dependent quicker than most of us want to imagine....
Hey Dr. Marks has a new video!!!
It sounds like this could be true.
Let me be clear druk isn't going to make you more caring.
It just opens you up to more experiences of emotion. So it will make you more emphatically if you never experienced the feelings or not that high. It gives you a new outlook on the human experience
This is super super interesting
Thank you for sharing. I’ve dabbled. I don’t recommend anyone try at home. Please go to medical professionals. YES they work for some of us.
How to get ketamine here they only give in hospital incare patients waiting list year ..help.pleas
Do you think that the game BRAIN N POWER can help with ADHD ?
Amazing, I think it will help with social phobia 🎉
I remember a 2017 paper by Robin Carhart-Harris that identifies 'connectedness' as a core feature of the way in which psychedelic therapy likely improves mental health. Ketamine is not a classic psychedelic and neither is MDMA so I wonder what is happening at the neurocircuitry level that they all induce these positive changes.
I have been taking ketamine for 18 months and I would have to say it’s been amazing and effective for pulling me out of a deep depression. Does it make you care more? I don’t know about that but I do know it helped me actually have true feelings again.
Please make a Video about Methylen Blue
I’ve had 2 ketamine infusions for pain management. I also have ptsd, depression, anxiety and am dealing with depression resistant medications. I’ve been on antidepressants for 40 years and haven’t had much luck. I believe ketamine has helped reduce the sharpness of my pain as well as slowing down my racing mind. Now pain management wants to prescribe me Memantine post infusions. This medicine is prescribed for dementia/alzheimers patients. Memantine treats memory loss. Do you have any information or knowledge of this medication helping with pain management and depression? I sure need understanding. I appreciate and learn from your experience and videos. Thanks.
I wonder if it would curb violent behavior, psychopathic behavior like grape & murder.
Please talk about the “real” reasons MDMA was shot down by the FDA! Thanks😀
Very interesting!🤔
Very spooky timing considering I just took mushrooms a couple of days ago and I’m pretty narcissistic……
very very interesting for sure.
Thank You for this video. 🧠🏥🧠🏥🧠🏥🧠🏥🧠
When can the average person get this with insurance including Medicare and Medicaid covering it ?? When?
Amazing!
This makes sense. Because Psilocybin mushrooms sure do seem to do the same thing. I actually think it improved my relationship by removing the ego and allowing me and my partner to be completely honest and open in our communication and emotions.
A healthy ego is important
I am suffering from clinical depression panic attacks and cpts
I took psychiatric medication most of my life but it made my situation even worse.
Where I live the use of mushrooms is prohibited. We do not even have specialized doctors for it.
I would travel to another country just to get treated with mushrooms. I keep reading the testimonies of people how it changed their life to the better. I just want to feel normal and not depressed once in my life
Intense exercise daily, no caffeine no drugs/alcohol, no social media and the DARE app helped me immensely.
@@gordythecat thank you for your comment
It can be found online in USA
Yes it does most definitely
I'd say I'm a little less empathetic and emotional because I'm taking Escitalopram. I received a series of Spravato (Esketamine) sessions to boost my antidepressant response. I know everyone is different, but it didn't help at all. I just felt relaxed while I got it, but no effects on my low energy and "wanting-to-isolate-" symptoms. The only thing that helped with my fatigue and low energy was 1 mg of Aripiprazole. With 2 mg I already had too much akathisia. Before that not even ECT or rTMS have done anything.
Unfortunately, in Germany it's not as common to use aripiprazole because it's not officially approved for depression, so it's an off-label prescription.
Can you do a delve into the micro-dosing of GLP-1 medications benefits. I have seen several podcasts recently of how it can help with addictions, obsessive thinking, isolating and depression. Alternatively when it is dosed with the increasing doses for the weight loss effect; I have heard negative things.
Anyone else found tramadol to be, not only an excellent anti-anxiety med but also really good as an empathogen, just like mdma? I've always assumed it results from oxytocin release. I wonder how effective oxytocin is when used directly and how that compares to ketamine etc.
Informative Dr Tracey. Thx
Interesting.... for sure.
I wonder if it could help a developing brain...
Integrated Medicine❤
I’ve been thinking that psychedelics could “cure” narcissists because it would reconnect their egos to their souls. It’s based on my experiences with mescaline and psilocybin… complete dissolution of ego boundaries and experiencing that we are each an expression of God.
This is an exciting development! But, animal testing is not cool. It's one thing to test life-saving treatments on animals, because the benefit outweighs the harm. But in a case like this, it just seems gratuitously malicious to shock rats and scare their cagemates.
I understand you are referring specifically to the uncomfortable electrical shocks given to these rats. Unless they are complete psychopaths (which in this case would be ironic given they are testing for empathy), researchers develop methodologies to test psychological hypotheses with the animals' welfare in mind. The shocks are not gratuitous.
However, your comment can be construed more broadly.
New medicines or vaccines cannot be developed without animal models. I don't know the ins and outs of how the FDA regulates pharmaceutical testing, but animal models are necessary before moving to limited human trials. Animal testing for cosmetics has thankfully gone by the wayside except for a few corporations.
Obrigada ❤❤🙏💯✍🏻🌎🔥
Wirth q try maybe
maybe Master Yoda was onto something after all
4:06 omg I own rats and the idea that one would give up a sugar pellet for a cagemate is WILD- they do have empathy, and their little social circles are real
This is what doctors lack in Ketamine
I know I have cognitive empathy, but i don't "Feel" for others because I'm too busy feeling my own painful emotions, which I can not turn off. And I'm often irritable and unpleasant to be around because I'm too engulfed in my personal hell. I isolate because I don't want put that around others.
Good call.
My therapist told me I have too much empathy for my own good, I don't want more of it xD
Not possible to have “too much empathy” unless you don’t have enough for yourself!!!!
@@annetallegrand5656 Too much for my own good, meaning it would be better for me to have less. For example I struggle watching competition of any type. I get so anxious it feels like I am the one on the stage. Watching the opening ceremony for the olympics also made my stomach do flips. Every single athlete must have felt so much. Wanting to win, to make their people proud... That doesn't sound very productive to me xD It definetly takes up space so I struggle to take care of myself though.
Dr., every time I see your vids, you’re always pushing some ketamine lmao
TH-cam must be preferentially sending you these videos then. I’ve covered ketamine in maybe five out of 300+ videos.
@@DrTraceyMarks Must be! Usually I’ll be watching a video and eventually you’ll talk about how ketamine and shrooms may be used to treat mood disorders or ptsd in the future, but I’m probably thinking hyperbolically about this.
Because it’s the future of mental health
If be scared to death to take ketamine. I already feel things very deeply. Too deeply.
This is the future
Someday
@@Meandmymirror Progress can't be stopped and people will see sooner than later that banning LSD and other substances (I'm talking MDMA and the like, not heroin) was stupid
I hope before I die
Okay well... what ever the heck Elon Musk is doing with Ketamine isn't working then.
The only thing that keeps popping into my mind now, "Oh no... PETA was right all this time???" 😅
Amazing! Animals have the same capacity to feel emotions! I wonder what dogs or primates would behave! I hate animal research!
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