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Ngl I feel antivaxx about having reluctance to psych drugs due to three friends' negative experiences with them
I think there's plenty of reason to be wary about. My experience with psychiatrists is that there's not a good way to know beforehand if meds are going to work well or give nasty side effects, you just have to try and see.
That being said, ever since I'm on my current adhd medication and antidepressants i am able to think about the future, and to build my own happiness, rather than trying to put out so many fires I couldn't help to be terrified and paralyzed by everyday life.
Antivaxxers overwhelmingly talk about made up problems (or ones that are absurdly exaggerated). Psych drugs can sometimes have genuinely completely debilitating effects in a person at a much, much higher frequency depending on the specific drug, while others are really banal.
shit literally destroyed my life.
Yeah, I've never been given anything that hazardous but I know people who got more fucked up by drugs than their actual mental illness and it robbed them of years of their lives. Now they're on medication that are helpful, though
Everyone that I know that has been on meds has had negative experiences, but I think an important distinction is that a lot of psych meds are trial and error, and having bad experiences is part of the process of finding what works for you and adjusting to it. I went through it all and discovered that meds aren't for me personally, but there are people I know who rely on their meds and they seem to work well. Chutes and ladders really I guess.
:yea: it fucking sucks