by Megan Bonney | Jun 10, 2026 | Depression, Ketamine, Mental Health
Some words I love to hear from patients (real patients, real words): “I cleaned my whole house last night. Got a good start at work this morning.” — 50-year-old man, after his first infusion “It’s working. You’re not getting stuck on...
by Megan Bonney | Jun 10, 2026 | Depression, Ketamine, Mental Health
Some of the words I love most to hear from patients (real patients, real words): “I have more energy than I did in high school.” — 27-year-old woman, after her second infusion “I got out in my yard and did stuff.” — 46-year-old man, after his...
by Megan Bonney | Jun 10, 2026 | Depression, Ketamine, Mental Health
Some of the words I most love to hear from patients (real patients, real words, names changed for privacy): “I’m fabulous. I haven’t been fabulous for a long time.” — 64-year-old woman, after her second infusion “I cleaned my whole house...
by Megan Bonney | Jun 10, 2026 | Depression, Ketamine, Mental Health
Most stories about ketamine therapy get one thing wrong. They emphasize the trip — the colors, the dissociation, the transcendent moment. That’s the icing. It’s not the cake. The actual story of recovery — across the 800+ patients I’ve treated — is...
by Megan Bonney | Jun 10, 2026 | Depression, Ketamine, Mental Health
The phrase “treatment-resistant” gets handed to a lot of people who don’t deserve it. In clinical practice it usually means just one thing: you’ve tried two or three antidepressants and none of them got you where you wanted to go. That’s...
by Megan Bonney | Jun 10, 2026 | Depression, Ketamine, Mental Health
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month — and as a physician, I’ve come to believe we’ve been getting this wrong for fifty years. I want to walk you through why, and why the language we use to talk about depression, anxiety, trauma, and burnout actually...
