Thank you, Robyn. I am one of the few, extremely lucky people for whom regular exercise does alleviate and prevent episodes of clinical depression. But when I was unable to walk for several months, the depression took hold. I refused medication because fucking stupid and stubborn, but finally gave in. It worked, thank goodness. I got off of it as soon as I got to exercise again, but now I am humbly grateful that medication is there for me when I need it.
To paraphrase, I want to say the sometimes inconsistent Christopher Titus: They say, "it's just a crutch." Of course it's just a crutch. You don't walk up to a person with a broken leg and say, "Those sticks under your arms are just a crutch. Walk it off!"
New Age Taxidermist and part time shyster lawyer/failed politician Robert Fucking Kennedy? Sounds like the necessary resume for Hair Furor's HHS Secretary? I happen to think he comes off as an elitist "thinning the herd is good" believer who thinks evolution and genetics rather than medicine should decide who survives.
I live in NJ and just this year they rolled back the telehealth exemptions for scheduled medications—i.e. my ADHD meds—and now I have to see a doctor quarterly, at some expense, to maintain a prescription that I have been on for two decades now. And that's with the doctor doing me a favor, the nasty release I was forced to sign for the nonprofit health network wanted me to be seeing the doctor monthly and threatens me with urine tests. I mention this because in both cases, the issue here is that the majority of SSRI users are not "victims of overprescribing", just as the majority of people on stimulants are not abusing or selling their pills. Yet we have to be put through these regimes of suspicion just because the people making these shit policies are overly concerned with flashy edge cases that trigger disgust and contempt in the powerful and the uninformed.
The time for radical drug legalization is now. Stop giving MAGA, MAHA, and centrist cowards any say over medical decisions that the targets of their hate are making.
You know how the heroin addict gulps methylene blue? It’s an SSRI. He’s an asshole.
You’ll need to dig deep into pharmacology to find that, but anybody on an MAOI (good for ADHD driven depression 😉) should have heard about it. The two drugs do not mix.
Do they have anything to treat the willingness to get evacuated from a shooting incident by SS but leave your wife scrambling after you unprotected? Because I think he needs some of that. He's getting plenty of exercise, doesn't seem to help here. To be fair, a diet of roadkill and raw milk might not be salutary for any condition.
Thank you, Robyn. I am one of the few, extremely lucky people for whom regular exercise does alleviate and prevent episodes of clinical depression. But when I was unable to walk for several months, the depression took hold. I refused medication because fucking stupid and stubborn, but finally gave in. It worked, thank goodness. I got off of it as soon as I got to exercise again, but now I am humbly grateful that medication is there for me when I need it.
Why are we mad at RFK for being an ex-junkie? And benzos are worse to come off of than any heroin.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/rfk-jr-wants-to-send-people-on-antidepressants-to-government-wellness-farms/
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/rfk-wellness-farms-us-disabilities
So wrong. I’ve studied safe medications for the elderly and going after Medicare patients is insane. SSRIs are often the safest medications available.
Amen!
To paraphrase, I want to say the sometimes inconsistent Christopher Titus: They say, "it's just a crutch." Of course it's just a crutch. You don't walk up to a person with a broken leg and say, "Those sticks under your arms are just a crutch. Walk it off!"
New Age Taxidermist and part time shyster lawyer/failed politician Robert Fucking Kennedy? Sounds like the necessary resume for Hair Furor's HHS Secretary? I happen to think he comes off as an elitist "thinning the herd is good" believer who thinks evolution and genetics rather than medicine should decide who survives.
Agree!
Would be nice if I knew what SSRI stood for. Can anyone here help with that?
I live in NJ and just this year they rolled back the telehealth exemptions for scheduled medications—i.e. my ADHD meds—and now I have to see a doctor quarterly, at some expense, to maintain a prescription that I have been on for two decades now. And that's with the doctor doing me a favor, the nasty release I was forced to sign for the nonprofit health network wanted me to be seeing the doctor monthly and threatens me with urine tests. I mention this because in both cases, the issue here is that the majority of SSRI users are not "victims of overprescribing", just as the majority of people on stimulants are not abusing or selling their pills. Yet we have to be put through these regimes of suspicion just because the people making these shit policies are overly concerned with flashy edge cases that trigger disgust and contempt in the powerful and the uninformed.
The time for radical drug legalization is now. Stop giving MAGA, MAHA, and centrist cowards any say over medical decisions that the targets of their hate are making.
There is always some unhealthy , secret strategy being rolled out when Trump and his ilk suddenly begin picking on a new bone.
Fucking Assholes: “It’s not the guns, it’s a mental health issue!”
Also Fucking Assholes: “Eliminate mental health screening in schools! Restrict access to medications!”
You know how the heroin addict gulps methylene blue? It’s an SSRI. He’s an asshole.
You’ll need to dig deep into pharmacology to find that, but anybody on an MAOI (good for ADHD driven depression 😉) should have heard about it. The two drugs do not mix.
Nobody has a problem with you being on crutches because you have a broken leg.
Why do they have such a problem with a broken brain?
I do not know.
Do they have anything to treat the willingness to get evacuated from a shooting incident by SS but leave your wife scrambling after you unprotected? Because I think he needs some of that. He's getting plenty of exercise, doesn't seem to help here. To be fair, a diet of roadkill and raw milk might not be salutary for any condition.
I guess I'll have to run down to the local GOP headquarters and ask them why I should take medical advice from a junkie without a medical degree.