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