Rethinking Themoignage: Thomas Gohier's journey against serious depression

Bonjour, je me présente je m'appelle Thomas Gohier, j'ai 25 ans. It has been more than 4 years since I fought against a serious form of depression.
During these four years, I have been fighting to survive my symptoms, but also to try to treat them with a number of different treatments, some of which are very difficult to access.

I have therefore tried medical treatments of antidepressant types at maximum doses for everyone, but there has been no demonstrable result.
I therefore tried more invasive methods such as seismotherapy, but even this had no effect on me.

Being very close to abandonment, I have continued to look for a solution to get rid of this disease.

After a few hours of research on the Internet, I was alarmed to learn about the treatment of depression through the injection of ketamine, a medicine that I was until now very familiar with. But on the other hand, I soon realized that its most widespread use and even its first use was medical, and that I and my colleagues had very certainly had the opportunity to use it in the context of general anaesthetics.

Je me suis donc beaucoup plus facilement ouvert à cette solution thérapeutique, mais il me restais donc de trouver où je pourrais suivre ce traitement.

It is therefore to the clinic The Clinic of Change, in Lisbon, that I am
tourné. En effet une très bonne réputation l'entourait, réputation qui s'avéré fidèle à la réalité.

The teaching staff, my psychologist and the psychiatrist who was in charge of me were
charge se sontré extrêmement avenant et aimable. This first approach has usually helped me to calm down, but despite the fact that I am reassured by the nature of the medicine, which is ketamine, I am still a little anxious about this totally new experience for me.

The first was one of the most liberating.

If you're afraid of undesirable effects or simply of a bad experience during the "journey" made by ketamine, once the session is fully started, all my anxiety, my anxiety, my stress is gone. It's an indescribable, shifting sensation, a state of extreme detente, but on the other hand a very alert and bright state.

It's as if everything took on a meaning. Thanks to this, over the course of the sessions, I was able to gradually understand the psychological origin of my illness.

Although I can't qualify ketamine as a "magic" solution in my case, I can still attest that it is very close to being one.

Je suis quasiment certain que quelque soit l'état de gravité de la situation mentale d'une personne, la kétamine va forcément aider cette personne. I usually have trouble imagining that a person would not be able to feel any effects and would not be able to recover from this experience.

But hey, this treatment is first and foremost an experience for me, something to try at least once in your life.

However, even if I know that someone isn't able to fight back at the level of depression, I'm still very aware of the fact that it will always be possible to redo the ketamine injection sessions in order to stop it.

En définitive, je conseille à quiconque se sentant dans une "impasse"
psychologique, d'essayer ce traitement à base de kétamine, et plus particulièrement à la clinique the clinic of change, qui a su m'accompagner médicalement et psychologiquement dans une totale bienveillance vers la sérénité que m'a procuré ce traitement.

I would also like to thank all the staff at the clinic for this.