What ketamine can do to your body and your life?
Learn about ketamine and its impact on your bladder, mood, memory and relationships, and why getting support early can help you move toward a life free from ketamine.
Allen Carr’s Easyway doesn’t try to scare you off ketamine. Our focus is on removing the desire to use it, by clearing up the myths that make it seem appealing. But you deserve to know the facts, so here they are.
Your bladder
Ketamine can irritate and damage the lining of your bladder, sometimes within months of regular use. You might find yourself constantly needing the toilet, day and night, experiencing pain when you pee or even passing blood. Some young people lose control of their bladder entirely. In severe cases, the damage is irreversible, and some people have needed surgery to remove their bladder. There is no established safe level of recreational ketamine use.
Your stomach
Ever heard of “K cramps”? These can be agonising stomach pains linked to ketamine use. Some people take more ket to numb the pain, without realising they’re making the problem worse.
Your brain and mood
Ketamine can affect your memory, concentration and mood. It can leave you feeling anxious, low or panicky, and some people experience paranoia, hallucinations or psychosis-like symptoms. Research has also linked long-term, heavy ketamine use to changes in brain structure, including reduced gray matter in areas involved in thinking, emotions and decision-making.
Your safety
Ketamine affects your coordination, awareness and ability to react. That means a greater risk of falls, burns and accidents. At higher doses, you may be unable to move or speak, leaving you particularly vulnerable to harm or exploitation.
Your future
Ketamine is a Class B drug in the UK. Possession can carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison, while supplying it, even sharing it with a friend, can carry up to 14 years. A drug conviction can also affect future opportunities, including certain jobs and international travel. The rules are different for under-18s, but there can still be serious consequences.
Your money
Ket might seem cheap at first, but as tolerance builds, you may need more to get the same effect. What starts as an occasional expense can become a serious drain on your money.
Your life
Schoolwork suffers. Hobbies lose their appeal. Friendships change. Family relationships become strained. Little by little, ket starts taking up more and more of your time, money and attention, pushing aside the things that once mattered to you.
None of this means it’s too late to turn things around. Many people experience significant improvements in their physical and mental health after they quit. Some effects can improve over time, particularly when you quit early. However, severe bladder damage can sometimes be permanent, so getting help sooner really matters.
And whatever you’re experiencing right now, you don’t have to deal with it alone.
You deserve support, not judgment. And a life free from ketamine is absolutely possible.
“The good news? You don’t have to keep taking ket. And you don’t have to spend the rest of your life fighting the urge to take it. Once you understand the trap, you can start to see your way out of it.”
What program is right for you?
Both programs are a form of spoken therapy delivered in simple English with no scare stories or images.
Both cover the illusions of the addiction/issue, question your beliefs, provide insights into why you think as you do, shows you how to gain freedom and changes the way you will think about the addiction/issue so that you can leave free without any feeling of loss or battle of wills.
The 1-2-1 seminars are a live one-day course delivered by trained facilitators, all of whom quitted with the method. They are delivered either online via Zoom or at a center and are one to one seminars. There are shorter booster seminars that are different to the first seminar for the few that require them. There is also a money-back guarantee.
The online video is a pre-recorded program that can be streamed to your device. There are version for quitting cannabis or cocaine and are all presented by a facilitator who has helped thousands of people to freedom. They can be accessed anywhere and at anytime.
