Here's What It Felt Like When I Took Ketamine for Depression

[View this email in your browser]( | [Manage newsletter subscriptions](newsletter=all2) [Allure logo image]( July 02, 2022 [A drawing of a person wearing sunglasses in front of a trippy background. The chemical compound symbol for ketamine is reflected in their glasses.]( Ketamine Dramatically Improved My Life. Why Don't More People Use It? Here, Allure beauty editor Alaina Demopoulos goes into deep detail about her life-changing experience with ketamine therapy, and asks: Why is it so prohibitively expensive? [Read it here on Allure.]( I sat on an ergonomic, heated massage chair that looked like it cost almost a year in student loans, stared at the cloud-printed wallpaper pasted all over the room, and wait for a nurse to give me a shot of ketamine. “You seem incredibly Zen today,” Jenna, a licensed [psychotherapist]( and my trip sitter for the day, remarked. How could I not be? Up until that day, most of my drugs came courtesy of some dude who's saved in my phone as "Fluffy." But now, I was cozied up for a k-hole in [Field Trip](, a cutely-named startup where ketamine therapy costs $750 for a medical evaluation, an intake session, one therapy session, a ketamine day, plus a debriefing appointment. [READ MORE]( [Sign up for Allure's Beauty Box]( [Get 1 Year of Allure Magazine]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Pinterest]( This e-mail was sent to you by [allure.com](. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, allure@newsletters.allure.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( or [Manage your newsletter subscriptions](newsletter=all2) Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.