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Meds were nice for a little while but I started to get dependent and I hated that. Trying to do my best for a year with ups and downs.
Update: damnit, I just realized I should be doing something else.
CeruleanSky1988
I'm in this and I hate it
AtsaMattaForMe
why I'll have you know--
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constipatedmemes
tinydog
Squirrel?
ReadMyLeaders
I need a hand like that.
LaikaPath
The best thing that helped me accepting meds was hearing "you wouldn't expect someone who is nearsighted to work without glasses."
Rodltwo
Or a diabetic to go without insulin. Neither glasses or insulin “cure” the issue, they’re tools to help. Same for ADD meds
Sendmen00ts
Isn't that what they do in America?
Rodltwo
Sadly yes
ReadMyLeaders
That's true too. Different but true. It changed me in a way that was scary to me. I lost some kind of creative beauty and humanity.
ReadMyLeaders
When I stopped I started to feel my normal brain coming back and it was like an old friend that I took the chains off. Melodramatic, I know
ReadMyLeaders
But I literally wept because I was myself again and I could feel again. I missed being myself. Maybe I was on the wrong meds.
woozle
there's a difference between physical dependence, abuse, and addiction
ReadMyLeaders
Yeah, that's why I was trying to be specific. Thanks for the clarification, my dude. It just wasn't for me.
woozle
no prob. I was an addiction counselor and ran a 30 day treatment center. That's something I had to clarify with clients quite often
Sendmen00ts
I too am addicted to my brain working so I can complete tasks & finish thoughts. Takes 30mg of Dex SP and I fucking hate it...
ReadMyLeaders
It was one of the hardest decisions I made to get off it. Getting off it hurt my life in a lot of ways but like always, you just...
ReadMyLeaders
Pick up the pieces and move on
Lynkfox
I'm sorry you feel that way ? I do not like who I am off my meds, I do not like my brain when it can't focus. I may be dependant but
Lynkfox
I prefer to be the nicer, calmer, less likely to lash out grumpy ahole I easily become off them. However, that is me. You be comfortable in
Lynkfox
Your own skin and with your own decisions and that is fine by me!