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carrie fisher didn’t get laid to rest in a prozac-shaped urn for us not to take our meds…………. so take your meds

i kno posts like this are meant to be positive and nice but like… medications arent a nice pure glass of water theyve got all sorts of social and historical baggage. uwu stay medicated is not a trend we should be getting on

Okay but I don’t care about nebulous baggage, I care about my neurochemical state permitting me to retain executive function so I can be a relatively competent human being who feels like life is pretty okay at least some of the time. So I will absolutely uwu stay medicated and the many other people whose lives would be better if they took their meds should absolutely uwu stay medicated, and I wish to strongly urge everyone else to uwu stop and think critically before you blithely parrot baseless handwringing rooted in the bizarre social stigma against literally just taking medicine for illnesses.

Thanks for reading, have a nice day, ooh woo take ur fuckin meds

Because dependency is a brilliant way to live?

You know its crazy but I think i’d rather be “dependant” on medication than die of say diabetes or cancer or AIDs and the same applies to my mental illness, I’d rather be dependant on meds than be out of my gourd half to suicide all the time, you assclown

I don’t think it applies to mental illness. Physical illnesses can’t be solved by speaking and by therapy so don’t try and equate the two. Also in a world where there’s so many progressive and harmless procedures Doctors have at their whim to help treat mental illnesses actually having to physically take drugs to rebalance your brain surely should be a last resort. Doctors still don’t have a fucking clue how about 80% of the human brain works so taking a drug that numbs or distorts a particular region could have any number of affects, I refuse to advocate that and I can’t understand in a world where so many alternatives exist why you would. And don’t be so immature and resort to name calling. It degrades us both.

No, sit the fuck down and listen. I have bipolar disorder, a severe chemical imbalance of the brain. There is, on gods green earth, no amount of surgery, or therapy that will fix this.
There are only meds that can balance it.
So i’ll thank you to keep your stupid fucking mouth shut since you very clearly can’t think before you fucking speak and haven’t the faintest idea how mental illness actually works, since you think they can be solved with therapy.
I don’t give a fuck oubout your “no name calling” high horse when you’re sitting there trying to tell sick people not to take their meds because “uwu dependancy uwu there are better solutions like therapy and diet uwu”.

You’re the same as every white wine facebook mom who thinks autism can be cured with fucking salad.

Fuck off back into the ether.

Bipolar Disorder can be aided by Therapy and changes in lifestyle. Trying to pretend it can’t is dangerous and selfish. And in your world do psychology and psychiatry exist? Because again trying to pretend as if these wonderful fields don’t aid in treating mental illnesses is just fucking bizarre. I’m not preaching. If you are comfortable with pumping yourself full of ambiguous chemicals and creating serious issues for yourself in the long wrong then absolutely go ahead; but if you’re someone reading this who is struggling with your mental health there are ways to help that are absolutely harmless. And you acting as if therapy somehow doesn’t exist is extremely irresponsible.

Lastly you can’t control your mental state so I apologize for expecting you to control your language.

Okay you can fuck off with that last line, you little shit. You’re not slick, i see what you fucking did there, I’m manic, not stupid.

No, changes in lifestyle won’t fucking fix this, nor will therapy, those help IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEDICATION.

Psychology and psychiatry have spent well over 100 years researching my disorder and guess what they found?

That medication is THE PROPER COURSE.

Fun fact: Bipolar 2, in men at least but likel;y also in women, leads to progressive brain damage if not treated WITH MEDICATION because the unbalanced chemicals do permanent fucking damage.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2003/05/4777/study-suggests-bipolar-disorder-may-cause-progressive-brain-damage

But guess what? WITH MEDICATION theres a significant slowing of those effects!

Because MEDS. ARE. GOOD. FOR. US.

So take your anti science UWU talk-it-out bullshit the fuck elsewhere you applefucking shiteater.

I can’t believe it’s fucking 2017 and medication for mental illnesses is still being looked down on. Like, I know, there are some valid criticisms out there, but if you’re going to be critical about meds be specific, be honest, and be respectful, especially to people who actually take these meds.

Please don’t make stupid blanket statements like “doctors don’t know what they’re doing they’re just messing everything up in your head” or “the best thing to do is to just talk through your feelings to get through it, don’t screw up your brain chemistry.” Bitch my brain chemistry was screwed up long before I was even diagnosed, let alone started taking meds.

Studies have proven time and time again that while therapy can help you develop skills to live with these disorders, medication alone is more effective than therapy alone (though a combined approach is most effective). At least, that’s what I’ve read about BPD, ADHD, and MDD.

Therapy exists, we know that, thanks. I’ve been through two “rounds” of serious counseling already, and I’m only 19. But for many people, it doesn’t work on its own. I was two months into my second round of counseling when we realized that I needed to try taking an anti-depressant to treat MDD too.

Medication doesn’t work for everybody, that’s a fact. There are always going to be people who have really bad negative side effects from certain meds. In fact, the first meds I tried, a type of antidepressant, gave me terrible insomnia and a lot of weight gain. So I stopped taking it and my psychiatrist suggested I try a different type of medication to combat depression, a SSRI. And it works for me.

I like who I am when I take my meds. I like being able to talk to people without feeling like I’m going to throw up from the pressure. I like being able to actually pay attention in my classes and concentrate on boring but necessary projects. I like being able to feel emotions.

In my experience, there’s nothing more isolating and disheartening than realizing one day that you can’t remember the last time you’ve felt real emotion–sadness, anger, joy, anything. I went more than two years like that before I started taking my SSRI meds. I experience that numbness not because I don’t “try” to feel or don’t “want” to feel, but because there’s a chemical imbalance in my brain that prevents me from feeling any significant emotions. That’s why I take medication.

I’m sick and tired of hearing people say “physical illness isn’t like mental illness, it can’t be cured with sunshine and rainbows like mental illness can.” Congratulations, you’ve just exposed yourself as an uneducated bigot who doesn’t know anything whatsoever about what causes psychological issues in the first place–hint: it’s more than just bad thoughts. For pretty much every illness out there, there is a physiological aspect, and mental illnesses are no different than physical illnesses in that regard.

If you’re so concerned @declansutherland98 that psych medications are releasing “ambiguous chemicals” into people’s brains, I suggest you actually look into it yourself. Here’s some actual names you might want to look up: Strattera, Ritalin, Abilify, Risperidone, Fluoxetine, Bupropion. These are some of the big meds used to treat such conditions as ADHD, BPD, MDD, and other related disorders. I’d also recommend you look into what “neurotransmitters” are and how stimulants, anti-depressants, and SSRI’s actually affect the brain’s chemistry.

Maybe scientists don’t know everything about the human brain, but we know a lot more than you give us credit for, dammit, and it’s not as if these meds are all untested. Every person’s brain is unique and is going to respond to different treatments in different ways, but that’s not to say that we have NO idea how most people undergoing a specific treatment are going to react.

I’d really appreciate it if people like you would stop pretending to know more about my brain’s chemistry than my psychiatrist.

TL;DR: take your fucking meds and don’t shame others for taking their fucking meds

Also…

“in a world where there’s so many progressive and harmless procedures Doctors have at their whim to help treat mental illnesses actually having to physically take drugs to rebalance your brain surely should be a last resort.”

I stayed unmedicated for as long as it was humanly possible for me. Please don’t insinuate I don’t know what last resort looks like for me.

(But also: please don’t humiliate people who don’t wait for a last resort. Someone who goes “hmm my brain is doing a thing, let me see if chemicals will make it not do that” right away is DIFFERENT from us, not WRONG ABOUT THEMSELF.)

Also what is this rubbish that all non-medication procedures are “harmless” and “progressive”.

Therapy, done poorly, can fuck you up. It can do exactly as much damage as it can fix. Its not actually a thing where you sit in a pile of bunnies and talk about your feelings and your problems magically evaporate. It requires skill to administer and often intense effort and a lot of time to have good effects, something which you literally may not have available to you if you have a serious mental illness. Or can’t pay for it, or can’t get to a therapist.

And that’s not limited to mental illness. I’m sick of this dipshit idea that medicine is somehow scary and dangerous and non-medicine things are magically harmless.

Herbs are basically drugs given with no standardization and no oversight, or they’re useless and you might as well chew a mint leaf and save your money.

Physiotherapy can do a tremendous amount of damage if done wrong.

Dramatic dietary or lifestyle changes can really help people, or even save your life if you have something like celiac disease. They can also cause malnutrition if you get bunk ideas from someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about but still gets to call themselves a nutritionist because its not a protected title.

Massage can cause injuries. 

Chiropractors have paralyzed people.

Side effects and danger are not some sort of cosmic punishment for interfering with the natural order of things. They’re a reflection of the fact that the body is an integrated system and changing just one part of it is virtually impossible, and that the trade off for a big effect where you want it, is usually a big effect elsewhere too. Medicine is dangerous because the human body is complicated. There’s no way around this. There’s no magic, risk-free bullet you can conjure out of your ass and pretending their is is insulting to every scientist whose spent their life trying to understand the body, every doctor and therapist and medical professional whose spent years working their hardest to be able to give the best treatment possible within the limits of human knowledge and to every single person whose ever had to make serious decisions about their health or take risks to recover.

^^^^^

This.

My meds have side effects. They make me tired. This is extremely annoying.

This is a vast improvement over constant intrusive thoughts that made me imagine everyone I encounter dying in horrifying agony.

Do I like being tired? No. But it’s a good trade off, imo.