“The experience has been life changing in the truest sense. I’m an analytical person, and for years an anxious one, so when I began looking into ketamine infusions for treatment-resistant depression, I spent months researching before committing to anything. I read the medical studies, but I also spent a lot of time reading about other people’s experiences on social media. What I noticed was a pattern: the negative experiences almost always came from ketamine centers or general wellness centers where patients get hooked up to an infusion and left alone in a room, told to call out if they need help. I don’t know how anyone manages to call for help while on ketamine. I certainly can’t.

What I love about MBC is that every infusion, the provider who doses me stays with me. There’s a blood pressure cuff, the option to bring a guest, a show playing while I recline – and none of the underlying stress of wondering how I’d get someone’s attention if I had a bad reaction, needed my dose adjusted, or started feeling sick. I’m lucky enough to have Linda as my provider almost every time, though every nurse there is excellent. They stay in the room for the entire infusion. Linda also checks in beforehand about how my last treatment went and builds a plan around whatever symptoms I’ve been having.

Ketamine changed my life. It ended a depression I’d carried for twenty years and significantly eased my anxiety. But even though ketamine itself is what helped, the way MBC handles these infusions is the reason it worked for me. It just as easily could have gone the other way if they weren’t set up to be this attentive and patient-focused.”