2024-04-04 03:27:42
Elon Musk confirms suffering from depressive outbreaks and taking a ketamine-based treatment to control them
The millionaire confirmed that in no case does he abuse because his job does not allow him even a break
Elon Musk has participated in the premiere of a new talk show by former CNN host Don Lemon. During their conversation, the interviewer touched on several controversial topics in which the millionaire has recently been involved. One of the most delicate was when the interviewer asked the South African tycoon about his mental health and drug abuse.
Far from denying it, the CEO of Tesla confirmed a few months ago that he was taking a medication called Ambien, a compound analogous to benzodiazepines, which is prescribed for the treatment of insomnia and anxiety.
His biographer, Walter Isaacson, recounted in his book how Elon Musk seemed to suffer from a “kind of undiagnosed bipolar disorder” that took him from being a fun and active person, to an angry being or falling into the darkest pit of depression and leaving him awake with long sleepless nights.
Likewise, during the interview on the Don Lemon show, Elon Musk acknowledged having a medical prescription to consume controlled doses of ketamine to help stabilize his mental state. “It’s a pretty private thing to ask someone about a prescription, but there are times when I have a negative chemical state in my brain. Like depression. But not caused by a negative vision.”
Ketamine: the difference between poison and medicine is the dose
Administered in controlled doses, ketamine is an antidepressant increasingly used for the treatment of mental illnesses. Elon Musk highlighted in the interview that he was taking a dose every one or two weeks, when his mental state suffered, but that in no case was he abusing ketamine because, sometimes, weeks went by without taking it.
“I take a small dose every two weeks or something like that, but there’s nothing on the bottle that says ‘take this dose.’
Sometimes several doses a week, other times several weeks go by and I don’t need them. It’s like a chemical state in your brain that you just can’t get out of on your own, so ketamine can be useful to get me out of that depressive state of mind,” Elon Musk described during his interview. “I wouldn’t say I’m a case of long-term depression. But occasionally I enter a negative chemical state of mind. It’s not common, but it happens sometimes.”