[valtism]

Funnily enough, PCP is a drug that is very similar to Ketamine, but has a very different reputation.

Whenever someone sees someone in full-blown psychosis walking stark naked on the side of the road, PCP immediately gets the blame. In reality, both drugs have the same psychosis potential.

It's not an immediate thing. Heavy users will just start feeling confident and motivated. Little need for sleep and a spring in their step like they are light as a feather. As the heavy use continues, this can spiral into mania, delusions of grandeur, detachment from reality and paranoia.

I have no way of knowing how much Elon uses, but it would not surprise me if he is treating himself with consistent low doses of ketamine. I wonder how his memory is, that would be a pretty good tell.

[AstralStorm]

Phencyclidine is just much more potent - it has been used for dissociative anesthesia in the past too.

Memory is only impaired in really end cases of abuse of ketamine. First the ability to learn newcomplex tasks is damaged. Then usually kidneys go. Unlike PCP, wholesale psychosis is rare.

This is though mostly in abusers again, ones going for so called k-holing. Whether Musk does these high doses is a different question. Normally you can spot these people as acting zombie like and having an equivalent of absence seizures, not grandious manic episodes.

Musk might be (self) medicating with a wrong drug for a different mood disorder. Now that is both relatively common and might look exactly like his behavior - a hypomanic shift for example. Ketamine really is meant to be used as an antidepressant for standard depression and only short term...