As the field of psychedelic therapy continues to gain traction, it is becoming increasingly important for practitioners to ensure their treatments are safe and effective.
Depression can be treated in a number of ways. The traditional SSRI treatment is effective for some, but not for everyone. Studies on ketamine have shown that it is very helpful with depression, especially when other treatments have not been able to help as much.
The number of options for ketamine-assisted therapy is growing quickly, and you may be wondering how to choose the one that is right for you. Nushama happens to be quite different from most clinics—in fact, we don’t even call ourselves a “clinic,” and here are the reasons why.
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Each September, the National Alliance on Mental Illness marks Suicide Prevention Month with campaigns built around a simple idea: talking about suicide openly saves lives. That idea holds up, because awareness reduces stigma, and stigma is one of the reasons people wait. The harder question sits just past the conversation. When someone finally says out […]
Definium Therapeutics recently earned its second FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation for DT120, an orally disintegrating tablet form of LSD, this time for major depressive disorder. In the company’s Phase 3 Emerge study, a single dose eased depression symptoms significantly more than placebo. It’s a genuine milestone. It also raises a question our field can’t afford […]
You’re on the 6 train headed to your Spravato session in Midtown. You’ve felt like yourself for months now: sleeping, laughing, showing up. And then the thought arrives. Am I doing this forever? Most people ask how long you stay on Spravato quietly, with a little guilt, as if wanting an endpoint means they aren’t […]
You are sleeping again. You laughed at something last week and meant it. The morning no longer arrives with dread. And then, this afternoon, you read the same paragraph four times and still could not tell anyone what it said. If that is where you are, you are probably drawing one of two conclusions: the […]
You got through the funeral without crying, and that bothered you more than crying would have. You can name the things that used to feel good, and you feel none of them. You are getting to work, answering emails, showing up, which is exactly why nobody has asked if you are okay. This has a […]
You found the clinic. You read the studies at 1 a.m. You may be the one paying, or driving, or rearranging the week so the appointments happen. And nearly everything written about transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is for the person in the chair, not the person in the car afterward. Almost nothing is written for […]
Maybe you have been reading about TMS for weeks. Maybe someone you trust brought it up over coffee. Either way, one question sits heavier than the cost, the schedule, or the commute: does TMS change your personality? Will I still be me afterward? Our care team hears this all the time, usually once the door […]
Bipolar depression has one of the shortest treatment shelf lives in psychiatry. For decades, the list of approved options has stayed thin, and most of what’s on it comes with side effects that are hard to live with. A randomized trial published in JAMA Psychiatry 2026 (Orsini, Di Luch, Rosenblat et al.) adds a new name […]
Depression that hasn’t lifted after a couple of medicines leaves you with a hard question, and lately with three answers instead of one. You may have read every TMS vs Spravato comparison already, understood the differences, and still felt stuck. That’s normal. The right choice depends on your treatment history, your insurance, and what your […]
If you or someone you love is in crisis, call or text 988 (the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) any time. You’ve probably heard esketamine described as one of the faster ways out of a depression that has dragged on for months. And then, when you started reading, every source seemed to say something a little […]
