Ketamine Therapy vs. Antidepressants: How They Work Differently

Traditional antidepressants like SSRIs work slowly on the brain’s serotonin system, often taking four to six weeks to help. Ketamine works on a different system entirely, glutamate, which is why it can lift depression in hours or days instead of weeks. That single difference in target explains almost everything else: why ketamine acts fast, why […]