[jjackson5324]

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...

[NN88]

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.

[nullindividual]

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.

[jjackson5324]

> 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/