Musk Says His Ketamine Prescription Is in Investors' Best Interests

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/musk-says-ketamine-prescription-is-in-investors-best-interests

by NN88 • 2 years ago

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r721• 2 years ago

The authors predicted that a low dose of ketamine in healthy volunteers who scored in the low hypnotizable range on the Stanford Clinical Hypnotizability Scale would report an increase in subjective ratings of dissociation and demonstrate an increase in hypnotizability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39744725

jjackson53242• 2 years ago

I understand that the MSM hates Elon Musk but it's sad that they have to spread misinformation about Ketamine Therapy in their lust for clicks.

It's had amazing results for treating depression -> https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketamine-for-treatment-r...

nullindividual2• 2 years ago

Everyone should dislike Elon Musk. He's a horrible person and needlessly rich. The man has sociopathic tendencies. We just have to listen to his ethos to determine that.

With that said, yes Ketamine is effective for depression. But it is not designed for "depression-like symptoms". It is designed for acute depressive mood disorders and suicide ideation which cannot be treated by other means, similar to electroshock therapy or TMS. Ketamine is not a "first line" treatment for depression.

Simply based on his own words from this article, this sounds like abuse of Ketamine.

My question would be if he's getting IV treatments or using compound medication. They are wildly different in their usage, effects, and monitoring.

jjackson53242• 2 years ago

Everyone should dislike Elon Musk. He's a horrible person and needlessly rich. The man has sociopathic tendencies. We just have to listen to his ethos to determine that.

Thanks for telling me what to think.

But it is not designed for "depression-like symptoms". It is designed for acute depressive mood disorders and suicide ideation which cannot be treated by other means, similar to electroshock therapy or TMS.

That's literally not true. Spend a few mins reading a survey paper on it perhaps? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28249076/

NN88• 2 years ago

I don’t like this notion where every drug intervention, especially around mental health, has to be superficial defended

I can’t help but feel this is a superficial defense of Musk as a proxy for defending the drugs.

Musk Says His Ketamine Prescription Is in Investors' Best Interests

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