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Hugely anecdotally, I think ketamine might have fixed my depression for about 6 months with one heavy dose. It was early 2018, I had just gone through a really bad breakup the December previous. Around March, my friends invited me on a ski trip - where I promptly had a bad fall and ended up in the hospital with a dislocated shoulder. The doctors had a hard time getting it back in while I was conscious, so they knocked me out with ketamine (smaller, more rural hospital) to put it back in.

In the days and weeks following I felt amazing, with almost all of the post-breakup blues gone and a fantastic outlook on life - I chalked it up to the "near-death" experience, but later found out about the potential anti-depressive properties of the drug and I've wondered ever since.