Ketamine is licensed to be used as an anaesthetic but has a reputation as an illegal party drug.
But Simon Bottle, from Hawkhurst, Kent, has lived with depression for 30 years and says taking the drug has been "game changing".
Mr Bottle said depression had impacted his education, career and personal life, until he paid for a private prescription of ketamine. The businessman is campaigning for the NHS to prescribe ketamine for patients who have not responded to other forms of antidepressants."One of the things that happened for me almost instantaneously was a feeling of a huge weight starting to be lifted off your shoulders, which I hadn't felt in decades.
"I think if we were to get a license for intravenous ketamine as an alternative for people who have been considered for ECT, it would without doubt be a game changer," he said."And what is really exciting is that there is new data which suggests that it is as good as the best treatment for depression that we've got, which is ECT."
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