Ketamine for Depression Worked for Me

I’ve been depressed off and on since I was a teen, and most recently severely depressed for the last two and a half years. The worst of my depressions when I was young occurred at age 19, 20 and 23. At 19, I could barely leave the house and my mother drove me to my psychiatry appointments. That doctor put me on two tricyclic antidepressants. The first medication caused a grand mal seizure, where I fell on a sidewalk and dislocated my right shoulder. A stranger saved me by putting his wallet in my mouth and calling 911. The second medication (also tricyclic — this was 1984), caused nausea…