Elon Musk tweeted late Wednesday night time that he’s by no means gone to remedy, a indisputable fact that he desires to be immortalized on his headstone. And no matter you consider the billionaire’s angle to psychological well being remedy, Musk’s tweet would appear fairly unremarkable in isolation. Nevertheless, Musk retains tweeting about this for some cause, together with 3 times prior to now two months alone.
- “Put ‘By no means Went to Remedy’ on my headstone,” Musk tweeted on February 28.
- “He’s lifeless proper. Please put ‘By no means went to remedy’ on my headstone,” Musk tweeted on January 29 in response to a video of movie director Wernher Herzog.
- “Please put ‘By no means Went to Remedy’ and ‘Invented Automobile Fart’ on my headstone. These are my solely requests,” Musk tweeted on January 8, including an additional factor for his hypothetical tombstone.
However these are simply the latest instances Musk has tweeted about remedy. One other occasion of Musk utilizing the identical language occurred in July 2023, when the Tesla CEO was responding to a far-right influencer on X who advised white liberals have extra psychological sickness than the final inhabitants.
“Why is psychological sickness so outstanding amongst Liberal Whites?” the account, which works by the identify The Rabbit Gap, tweeted.
“’By no means went to remedy’ Please put that on my headstone,” Musk responded.
Clearly the selection to go to remedy is a private one and Musk is free to determine if he’d discover that sort of factor useful. But when he’s really “by no means” gone to remedy it does appear a bit odd that he’d assume he could make an efficient judgement about whether or not it will work for him. In any case, the billionaire microdoses ketamine for melancholy, in line with a Wall Street Journal report from final 12 months. Sometimes, any drug interventions for psychological well being points require remedy from an expert.
Musk has made repeated solutions that he’s usually struggled with psychological well being points, together with on the Lex Fridman podcast when he referred to his thoughts as a “storm” final 12 months.
“My thoughts is a storm. I don’t assume most individuals would need to be me. They might imagine they’d need to be me however they don’t know, they don’t perceive,” Musk told Fridman.
Musk was requested about that remark—that his thoughts is a storm—in an interview with the New York Occasions’ Andrew Ross Sorkin on November 30, 2023 on the DealBook Summit in New York. Sorkin tried to probe deeper into the problems that could be troubling Musk and after an achingly lengthy 12-second silence in entrance of a stay viewers, Musk stated fully unprompted that it felt like he was in a therapist’s workplace.
“I want we have been like on a psychiatrist sofa or one thing. You already know, I feel to some extent I used to be born this fashion, however, after which it was amplified by a tough childhood frankly. However I can bear in mind even in completely happy moments once I was a child that there’s simply, it simply seems like there’s only a… a rage of forces in my thoughts continually,” Musk defined.
Musk stated that generally this disturbance in his thoughts would make him productive. However after itemizing successes, Musk appeared to get troubled and introspective once more.
“So these demons of the thoughts, , are for probably the most half, harnessed to productive ends. However that doesn’t imply that infrequently they don’t, … go improper,” Musk stated.
Musk additionally introduced up the subject of suicidal ideation at a younger age.
“I imply, I did have this existential disaster once I was round twelve about what’s the which means of life? Isn’t all of it pointless? Why not simply commit suicide? Why exist?” Musk recalled.
That interview might be greatest remembered for Musk’s defiant angle within the face of advertiser backlash over feedback that have been extensively seen as anti-Semitic. However these feedback are value revisiting because the billionaire retains repeating that he doesn’t want remedy.
Once more, Musk can maintain no matter opinions he likes concerning the psychological well being career and is free to decide on no matter path he desires to make in life. He’s, in spite of everything, the wealthiest man on this planet who’s doing simply effective in a fabric sense. However given the frequency Musk tweets about how he’s by no means been to remedy, it’s clearly a subject that’s on his thoughts, and a few individuals do discover it helpful to only have somebody to speak with.
Greater than 50,000 Individuals died by suicide in 2023, barely greater than the 49,449 suicide deaths in 2022 and 48,183 suicide deaths in 2021, according to the CDC. And whereas remedy isn’t magic, it may assist individuals who discover themselves in determined circumstances.
In case you or somebody is having a disaster or considering suicide, please name or textual content the Suicide and Disaster Lifeline at 988. You can even name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or textual content the Disaster Textual content Line at 741-741.