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Ketamine & Schizophrenia

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Taoluo

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First of all sorry if there's a better board for this subject but I figured here might be the best place to ask. I ask as I know (though not very well) two schizophrenics who have had/currently have ketamine addictions and I was just wondering what the ketamine experience is like for schizophrenics and what would compel schizophrenics to take a drug which some say mimics the symptoms of schizophrenia? Can it act as a fighting fire with fire effect or is it just, like everyone else, they like the feeling of it?
 
Taoluo said:
First of all sorry if there's a better board for this subject but I figured here might be the best place to ask. I ask as I know (though not very well) two schizophrenics who have had/currently have ketamine addictions and I was just wondering what the ketamine experience is like for schizophrenics and what would compel schizophrenics to take a drug which some say mimics the symptoms of schizophrenia? Can it act as a fighting fire with fire effect or is it just, like everyone else, they like the feeling of it?
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All I'll say is, your friends would be excellent test subjects in a questionably ethical and questionably legal psychiatric study which will never be conducted in the First World. (The ship would-be Karl Janssens and John Lillys sailed decades ago, now that ketamine is on the DEA's radar, and mental hospitals have either cleaned up or shut down.) I would be very, very interested to know just how similar your friends found their experiences on ketamine to their acute psychotic episodes before every trying a dissociative.
 
Ketamine is not like a freak-out. At all. Anyone who says any drug feels like schizophrenia has never experienced an episode.

That being said, if you can integrate well, it's helpful (at least I found it so).
I can recognize when I'm being delusional better because I can notice the thought patterns on drugs and associate that with my waking world. Incidentally, I did a few trial experiments with Datura for this purpose.

In all honesty, both have probably exacerbated certain aspects of my so-called "illness".
But they've done their parts to make me functional in society, too.
 
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