1D10@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I say: no body has any right to know what meds I’m on, that said. I’m on mood stabilizers, antidepressants, anti anxiety, pain killers and glp1. So I’m a bit used to the stupid shit people think.
Random person: “Antidepressants don’t really help, they are just a crutch”
Me: yeah me and 3 of my brothers have depression and they never took meds, but I think they help me, and my brothers all committed suicide so I can’t ask their opinion.
Then for some reason that person never wants to discuss meds anymore.
58008@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Every time I meet someone new, especially if it’s a romantic partner, the second they learn I’m on a cocktail of psychiatric medication, their first impulse is to tell me how they’re gonna try to wean me off it. I’m sure their hearts are in the right place… kinda… but yeah, they can fuck all the way off if they think I’m going back to my pre-medicated state. They really think of psychiatry as some fluffy non-science that deals with amorphous and vague conditions, and no doubt believe the books that seem to come out every year claiming the entire industry is a placebo factory. Like, come spend the week with me when I stop taking my meds and tell me it’s a placebo 😒
I’m sorry to hear about your brothers. Two of my brothers are fellow depression sufferers too, multiple attempts between them, so I feel incredibly lucky when I read a comment like yours. It’s been hard, but it hasn’t been that hard. I don’t know what I’d do if one (nevermind both) of my brothers checked out. Doesn’t bear thinking about, and again I feel lucky that I have the option to not think about such eventualities. I can’t imagine what your family has gone through.
All the best to you 💗
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
The thing is psych meds are made to sedate and make legible rather than treat and they’re over prescribed and used badly the system to get them us awful and could all be so much better but brains are weird and different and sometimes they just fucking work and that’s fine I knew a guy who was like a normal guy turned out he had a crippling h addiction couldn’t function without it even after withdrawals but like totally fine as long as he had a little in his system I don’t see why fucking seroquel or fucking Zoloft should be any different works for everyone and works for me are very different statements