#Hell *I* have very complicated feelings about my meds and I haven't really been *harmed* by them just... Chilled Out Too Much
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Bro they really be trying to put four year olds on antipsychotics... crazy shit
#Look I have very mixed and confusing feelings about the fact that I didn't receive any psychiatric treatment at all until I was 19-20 and#didn't get antipsychotics until I was 22-23. But like...#The pendulum can swing way too far in the other direction too#I'm reading Anatomy of an Epidemic and oh I'd love to have a conversation with Robert Whitaker about my case#<- grew up fundie Christian and very extremely anxious and then obsessive compulsive and then psychotic and depressed#(but did not receive any medical care for it whatsoever)#While I think meds would have helped me I also think that the average modern American psychiatrist solution of like#'throw more and more drugs at the problem until they go away and throw drugs at the side effects of those drugs' is. Bad#Idk what I'm saying tbh#I know for a fact my issues (aside from at least part of my emotional numbness) aren't iatrogenic. I was Very Mentally Ill from the start#And while I do consider my utter lack of care as a kid/teen/young adult to be some form of neglect it's like#The alternative (the modern American psychiatric system) was NAWT good either#I don't know a single person who's on meds who doesn't have some sort of complicated relationship with them and all I'm saying#is they shouldn't be treated as a magic bullet#Hell *I* have very complicated feelings about my meds and I haven't really been *harmed* by them just... Chilled Out Too Much#ANYWAYS#This book is kind of shitty towards ppl on SSDI (kind of implying that they're a Burden To The Country) which is gross#but otherwise I'm enjoying it
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