A common question that arises is the confusion over the dissociative effects of Ketamine and how that relates to the symptoms of dissociation in a patient with mental health symptoms. The two words are the same but mean completely different things!
In short one can look at it this way:
On a very simple level trauma-based dissociation, which is a form of hyper compartmentalization of different aspects of a traumatic experience (for the sake of psychological or physical survival after overwhelm and endangerment or various forms of traumatic injury and intrusion, threat etc.) is very different from the benevolent, kind of pharmaceutically or biologically mediated dissociation, which helps people separate from at lower doses, their ruminative calculative, obsessive, thinking, and constricted consciousness and at a higher dose, helps people separate from their biographies, and their sense of being limited by time, space, and identity, and so that type of dissociation lubricates the therapeutic process. Whereas the first type of traumatic dissociation , protects peoples’ sanity, and sense of self from further re-traumatization or protects from further disintegration under the pressure of trauma or post traumatic navigation of life.
See full blog post for more information on ketamine therapy and the safety and efficacy in patients with dissociation
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