Inspiration

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The following quotations are observed in publicly accessible papers and news articles.

Simple computer exercises using positive words and images designed to boost self-worth can prolong the antidepressant effects of ketamine in people with depression.

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Ketamine infusion appeared also to open a clinical window of opportunity, enabling the efficient uptake of positive self-representations to protect against the return of depression.

After priming the brain with ketamine, training positive self-associations could provide an efficient, low- cost, portable, noninvasive, and highly dissemination-ready strategy for leveraging and extending ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects.

If the present results can be replicated, this novel, integrative treatment may provide a method to urgently bring relief and to efficiently extend this relief via safe, low-cost, portable techniques.

We found that after just a single intravenous infusion of ketamine, patients experienced relief from depression symptoms for at least one month as long as they were assigned to the group that completed the digital exercises within the first five days.

We believe these observations substantiate our intuition that exposing yourself to positivity, especially when combined with the drug Ketamine, may lead to improvements in your mental health. We offer activities that provide positive self-affirmation. We are not attempting to duplicate their protocols.

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