Jess Thompson: Workplace Stress, Mental Health and Ketamine

In this candid conversation about workplace stress and mental health, Jess Thompson, shares her experience with ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Jess recounts how ketamine based psychotherapy allowed her to revisit past traumatic experiences and allow her to move forward with a new sense of emotional freedom. Through treatment, Jess was able to release trauma in the body, leaving her feeling as if, "things are just a little brighter." She recounts, it was like I "got through years of therapy in so little time." Jess has wanted to, "heal out loud, so others don't suffer in silence." She felt her position at work was compromised because of her mental health, her job threatened. After experiencing passive suicidal ideations, Jess took time off from work to deal with her mental health. However after sharing about her struggles on social media, a company representative informed she was, "shedding a bad light on the organization." Laid off from her project management position after returning from mental health leave, Jess was compelled to create the Association of Clinical Research Project Managers, where she sees "people as whole individuals, not productivity engines." Following her course of 6 ketamine sessions, Jess is busy implementing new healthy habits and developing new neuropathways. She says it feels like a dark cloud has been lifted and the, "sun seems to shine brighter." You can catch up with Jess and find out more about the Association of Clinical Research Project Managers here: https://acrpm.org/.