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I Took Ketamine for My Depression. Things Got Pretty Weird.

By Vanessa Barbara — 2021

My first encounter with ketamine did not go well. A lifelong depressive — I picked up the habit of despairing sadness in early adulthood, and it remained faithfully with me — I’d turned to a more experimental form of treatment: ketamine infusions, in which a kindly anesthesiologist funnels the drug into a sad person’s veins for around 50 minutes and hopes it perks her up.

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