Happier You Ketamine Clinic in Columbus, Ohio uses low dose IV ketamine infusion therapy to treat your PTSD symptoms and better enable you to cope with whatever trauma they may have experienced. Psychotherapy in combination with Ketamine therapy allows the patient the emotional ability to identify stressors which their life’s path has taught them to repress.

We highly encourage our treatments for your PTSD (if we feel you would be a good candidate), as well as traditional talk therapies for the longest-lasting and deepest recovery. 

About 8 million adults have PTSD during a given year. According to the National Institute of Medicine, “PTSD develops after a terrifying ordeal that involved physical harm or the threat of physical harm. The person who develops PTSD may have been the one who was harmed, the harm may have happened to a loved one, or the person may have witnessed a harmful event that happened to loved ones or strangers."

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has recently become a focus of our government and military, partly due to the recent documentaries, movies and publicized legal proceedings.  PTSD deserves to be addressed much like any other medical or physical ailment, and the men and women who have served our country deserve to have relief. When people hear “PTSD,” they generally think of veterans of the military. However, PTSD is a diagnosis which relates to one who may have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. 

There has been a breadth of compelling research conducted on PTSD patients utilizing Ketamine, many of which have concluded that “Ketamine infusion was associated with significant and rapid reduction of PTSD symptom severity.”

In PTSD, there is “mounting evidence for a role of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate in stress responsiveness, the formation of traumatic memories, and the pathophysiology of PTSD, raising the possibility of identifying novel glutamatergic interventions for this disorder.”12

• One double-blind study demonstrated that infusion of ketamine rapidly and significantly reduces symptom severity in patients with  PTSD compared with midazolam.2
• Another study found that administration of ketamine immediately after witnessing a traumatic event has been shown to prevent the enhancement of passive avoidance learning in mice.13 Ketamine may thus target the mechanisms involved in the consolidation of traumatic memory and may enable the brain to reconsolidate memory and release trauma.14