Joyous - Low-Dose Ketamine TreatmentReviews of joyous.team

Joyous is a great company that takes care of their patients! They respond quickly to any inquiries and are more that happy to answer any questions you may have. I have found relief from my anxiety that manifested as negative self talk and no longer have suicidal ideation. I can't recommend them enough.

My anxiety and depression has greatly improved since I started with Joyous. The doctors really care, and the entire process is seamless. I feel like I got a second chance at life!

I was not sure what to expect at first, and I was not sure how to track progress or even what I wanted from Joyous treatment. I knew that Ketamine was being more widely used for depression treatment and I felt that my current medication regimen was leaving something out. I have been on 3 medications for the last 6 years and my mood has been stable but also somewhat numb and sometimes reminiscent of when I was at my lowest. I used Joyous as prescribed and combined it with mindfulness meditation and yoga - things I only recently started doing. I never achieved full dissociation, which is not the point or aim of micro dosing, but I did notice elevated mood, openness, and less anxiety. On top of this, ketamine is almost an "instant" antidepressant, even in micro dose form. This is a double edged sword, as it can be tempting to reach for more when your mood dips. However, as someone with addictive tendencies the feeling was completely different from substance abuse. I did not "crave" more, I simply felt like sometimes one dose hadn't done enough. I was not sure exactly how treatment was going until a couple of months ago when I washed all the troches in a shirt and was out of medicine for 3 weeks. In the 3 weeks without medication, I noticed that many of the feelings I had while taking my dose were still there and part of me, like I was an actual complete person. This is what convinced me to actually start the process of closing my subscription. Without the medication I was more open, more receptive to my own feelings, more of myself. I do believe the neuroplasticity claims have merit, I do feel like the medication has done what the research suggests. Still, mental health is work, it is a journey, and I still have a lot of work ahead of me, but I do think that Joyous was a necessary part of that journey.

I was surprised it help me stay calm

Using this platform and ketamine made me be more present in my body and it required me to mindfully report my progress regularly. This is the push I needed to acknowledge how I was feeling and actually voice my concerns. I’m going through some other issues related to hormones, but joyous made those issues impossible to ignore. And although I’m taking a break from the program to go track down my other symptoms, I can’t actually wait to come back and finish the leaps and bounds (after years and different modalities of therapy and SSRIs) I was making before I got sidetracked with my stupid hormones. Recommend for anyone that can seem to shake off the depression or anxiety.

I recommend for anyone curious to try. Easy to follow directions with a plethora of support.

When I came to Joyous I was unable to leave my home due to panic attacks from C-PTSD & PTSD. I wasn’t working, I felt stuck, I couldn’t get out of rumination mode and I was essentially ready to give up on life. Once I got to a dose that worked, I was able to receive the most beautiful insight through positive disassociation in my meditations. Those insights along with therapy helped me tremendously in flipping perspective and changed the internal narrative I had for myself. Joyous was a life saver for me.

Navigating my post-menopausal hellscape has been challenging, to say the least. Joyous gave me my life back, and I don’t say that lightly. Very grateful for my experience, and Courtney was amazing as well!