Is ketamine therapy helpful for eating disorders?

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) can be very helpful for addressing eating disorders. Findings include the following outcomes: 

• Increased self-regulation and emotion-processing skills
• Increased self-efficacy and confidence in ability to address challenges
• Remission or partial remission of eating disorder symptoms
• Significant decrease in compulsive behaviors
• Elimination or reduction of depressive symptoms and suicidality
• Complete and sustained remission of eating disorder symptoms
• Clinically meaningful changes in depression
• Modest changes in anxiety and disordered eating
• Reduced obsessive-compulsive tendencies
• Weight restoration and weight maintenance
• Increased in food intake and food variety
• Less anxiety and rumination related to eating and body image