[jsn]

I don't know why you are being downvoted. My understanding is that yes, that's more or less how it works. Speaking from experience, whatever it is you are obsessing about, a ketamine trip makes you forget about it for about an hour. I think the main feeling you get when coming down from the trip is that you were just shown a world where your obsession doesn't make any sense, and it's a very good time to question your obsessions.

[gwern]

> I don't know why you are being downvoted.

He's being downvoted for making a moronic criticism: what the person feels under the influence of ketamine is obviously irrelevant, of no value for treating depression, this would be just as obvious to the researchers as to him, and so they couldn't possibly have meant that, and indeed, the second sentence of the article says benefits last well beyond the immediate influence.

[veganarchocap]

You're an idiot, I wasn't making a moronic criticism, I happen to be 100% anti-drug prohibition, but yet again on Hacker News, I've been massively down-voted and insulted for making a joke.

[veganarchocap]

I'm glad you think so! I was making a light-hearted observation and I'm actually 100% in favour of legalising and exploring the potentials of some of these substances for people with severe mental health problems. Mental health problems affect my family deeply and don't think any stone should be left unturned. It's just a shame everyone seemed to jump at me assuming I was criticising it somehow!