Marie-Claire, Brazil - March 19th
Filmmaker Mariana Baques Soares, 31, has been depressed for two decades. After treatment with various drugs and psychotherapy, she tried a different substance for her illness: ketamine. The effect of the drug, she says, has changed her life: "I've regained that innate will to live and I don't have to force myself to get out of bed". Mariana has what doctors call resistant or refractory depression, i.e. when the patient doesn't respond to conventional treatment with antidepressants and mood stabilizers. For a few years now, ketamine, an anesthetic also known as ketamine, has been used to treat people with the same diagnosis as the filmmaker.
