Great they already depress me and make me feel psychotic rage now they will take away the tools I use to not go crazy pants. That seems unwise since they are the main antagonists for my rage and that of so many others.
Oh, I get it! That poster child of natural good health, our very own president, wants to promote healthy diet and exercise! So it's Mickey D's and diet Coke all round, but we get to skip the Adderall? Oh, and exercise = golf, but you get to drive the cart everywhere including the greens.
I'm receiving chemo for breast cancer right now. I was prescribed an anti-psychotic and I was puzzled. When I questioned why, I was told that they are really effective for treating nausea. DO NOT COME FOR MY ANTI-NAUSEA MEDS. Or my anti-depressant meds, or my ADHD meds. These things are keeping me going through one of the most challenging times of my life, and will continue to help me afterward. When I found out I had cancer, I asked if I would have to stop taking my Adderall (thankfully, no). It has literally changed my life for the better.
"And, of course, the people who think depression and anxiety can be overcome with sheer willpower ... "
In the late 1980s, I worked for a small co. where the so-called HR person had access to our medical claims -- and zero discretion, and very little humanity and common sense. I was in intensive psychotherapy (I'd grown up as the target in an abusive family), and this person took it upon herself to tell me that reading the Bible helped her when she felt down, with the clear implication being that I should give that a try.
(I was somewhere between 25 and 28 and still a people-pleaser, so I didn't tell her that she was wrong/ignorant, that she was violating my privacy, that she was breaking the law, and that she should go to hell.)
It will be interesting to watch this nonsense play out. If you noticed, the pharmaceutical industry has thus far remained silent about these issues. I doubt that will last, as what Junior proposes will be highly detrimental to their corporate profits…
I'm both bipolar & a borderline personality (I write about being diagnosed late in life on my own blog, FallingApartAndComingTogether) and this is particularly troubling. I take a mood stabilizer, anti-anxiety medication, AND an anti-psychotic. Under RFK Jr's proposed plan, I'll be relieved of my medications and sent to a farm to be "reparented" whatever the hell that means.
Everywhere that Robert F*cking Kennedy Junior goes, he should be greeted by a crowd of demonstrators blowing on duck calls: Quaaack, quack-quack-quack-quack-quack.
That is what he is. He's a bigot with a big advertising budget, like most Republican Party leaders, and the people he resents the most are qualified experts in various fields of medicine who actually know what they're doing, and worse, who actually care.
He's going to hurt people, and people are going to die for his prejudice and his ego.
"Armchair Medical School of All You Need To Do Is To Eat Right, Get Some Fresh Air And Exercise And Get Off Your Dang Phone."
That is actually how I lead my life, but I have also had abdominal and back surgery, and antibiotics for infections. I take responsibility for myself, but also understand I cannot prevent every bad thing, and I may (will) need medical help some day.
Because they want mental health problems. They want people to grab guns and go shooting random folk so other folk get all terrified and vote law and order! mouthings and buy more guns themselves.
Terror is an effective way to keep a population subjugated.
I lost my father, my uncle and two cousins due to their lack of mental health meds and care. I will die if they take away my meds. But I guess that is the point. I am just a queer hippie lib anyway right?
Oy vey! My sympathies to people in the US who risk ending up cur off from medication which helps them.
Also, watch out for the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology. Ever since L Ron Hubbard failed to gain any traction in the medical field for his nonsense ideas, psychiatry has been a target of propaganda from this nasty cult. And the organisation has previously campaigned hard against SSRI and any other psychiatric medication.
For years I tried vitamins. Herbal supplements. Meditation. Stretching. Exercise. Positive thinking. Dream journaling.
And then I got prescribed an SSRI, basically against my will, because I thought I just needed to be stronger, and within 6 weeks, danged if I didn’t understand what other people must feel like when they don’t live life ruled by fear and anxiety and depression. I cannot believe how long I suffered for no real purpose.
RFK JR is a fucking monster. Cross into Mexico or Canada or order online rather than die. God what a shitshow.
I spent much of my younger adult life (and tens of thousands of dollars) in psychotherapy for my depression, because I didn't want to be on medication. I started prozac when my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and it was astounding how much it helped me get through that. (I still got therapy.) After several years it stopped being effective; I tried a few other things briefly which offered no help and spent several years descending into a pit of anxiety and depression. Recently started on sertraline, and a low dose of this is nearly miraculous. I figure I've paid my dues with psychotherapy, no more of that. I do have peer support, though.
And I'm a former clinical social worker. Fuck RFK Jr. and everyone else in that goddamed administration. What a fucking nightmare. But at least now I am able to feel defiant joy in life.
Great they already depress me and make me feel psychotic rage now they will take away the tools I use to not go crazy pants. That seems unwise since they are the main antagonists for my rage and that of so many others.
They will have to pry them out of my cold, dead fingers
Oh, I get it! That poster child of natural good health, our very own president, wants to promote healthy diet and exercise! So it's Mickey D's and diet Coke all round, but we get to skip the Adderall? Oh, and exercise = golf, but you get to drive the cart everywhere including the greens.
I'm receiving chemo for breast cancer right now. I was prescribed an anti-psychotic and I was puzzled. When I questioned why, I was told that they are really effective for treating nausea. DO NOT COME FOR MY ANTI-NAUSEA MEDS. Or my anti-depressant meds, or my ADHD meds. These things are keeping me going through one of the most challenging times of my life, and will continue to help me afterward. When I found out I had cancer, I asked if I would have to stop taking my Adderall (thankfully, no). It has literally changed my life for the better.
At least the idiots don't have worms. Anymore.
"And, of course, the people who think depression and anxiety can be overcome with sheer willpower ... "
In the late 1980s, I worked for a small co. where the so-called HR person had access to our medical claims -- and zero discretion, and very little humanity and common sense. I was in intensive psychotherapy (I'd grown up as the target in an abusive family), and this person took it upon herself to tell me that reading the Bible helped her when she felt down, with the clear implication being that I should give that a try.
(I was somewhere between 25 and 28 and still a people-pleaser, so I didn't tell her that she was wrong/ignorant, that she was violating my privacy, that she was breaking the law, and that she should go to hell.)
It will be interesting to watch this nonsense play out. If you noticed, the pharmaceutical industry has thus far remained silent about these issues. I doubt that will last, as what Junior proposes will be highly detrimental to their corporate profits…
I'm both bipolar & a borderline personality (I write about being diagnosed late in life on my own blog, FallingApartAndComingTogether) and this is particularly troubling. I take a mood stabilizer, anti-anxiety medication, AND an anti-psychotic. Under RFK Jr's proposed plan, I'll be relieved of my medications and sent to a farm to be "reparented" whatever the hell that means.
Everywhere that Robert F*cking Kennedy Junior goes, he should be greeted by a crowd of demonstrators blowing on duck calls: Quaaack, quack-quack-quack-quack-quack.
That is what he is. He's a bigot with a big advertising budget, like most Republican Party leaders, and the people he resents the most are qualified experts in various fields of medicine who actually know what they're doing, and worse, who actually care.
He's going to hurt people, and people are going to die for his prejudice and his ego.
"Armchair Medical School of All You Need To Do Is To Eat Right, Get Some Fresh Air And Exercise And Get Off Your Dang Phone."
That is actually how I lead my life, but I have also had abdominal and back surgery, and antibiotics for infections. I take responsibility for myself, but also understand I cannot prevent every bad thing, and I may (will) need medical help some day.
Because they want mental health problems. They want people to grab guns and go shooting random folk so other folk get all terrified and vote law and order! mouthings and buy more guns themselves.
Terror is an effective way to keep a population subjugated.
Amazing, isn't it, how the "Law and Order" people so cheerfully ignore the law and cause chaos when it suits them, huh?
I lost my father, my uncle and two cousins due to their lack of mental health meds and care. I will die if they take away my meds. But I guess that is the point. I am just a queer hippie lib anyway right?
I'm so sorry. I've lost people very close to me to mental health issues. I'd fall apart without my meds too.
Nooooooo, I need my happy pills to treat my SAD. It’s so dark and cold up here.
Oy vey! My sympathies to people in the US who risk ending up cur off from medication which helps them.
Also, watch out for the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology. Ever since L Ron Hubbard failed to gain any traction in the medical field for his nonsense ideas, psychiatry has been a target of propaganda from this nasty cult. And the organisation has previously campaigned hard against SSRI and any other psychiatric medication.
O Freud! Nicht diese Töne...
For years I tried vitamins. Herbal supplements. Meditation. Stretching. Exercise. Positive thinking. Dream journaling.
And then I got prescribed an SSRI, basically against my will, because I thought I just needed to be stronger, and within 6 weeks, danged if I didn’t understand what other people must feel like when they don’t live life ruled by fear and anxiety and depression. I cannot believe how long I suffered for no real purpose.
RFK JR is a fucking monster. Cross into Mexico or Canada or order online rather than die. God what a shitshow.
I knew a lass online who'd picked the '/nick 'sertraline', because that had saved her life.
I concur. It's a deliberately nasty shitshow.
Yep. Bottom line: Sertraline makes it possible for me to be creative and functional.
I spent much of my younger adult life (and tens of thousands of dollars) in psychotherapy for my depression, because I didn't want to be on medication. I started prozac when my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and it was astounding how much it helped me get through that. (I still got therapy.) After several years it stopped being effective; I tried a few other things briefly which offered no help and spent several years descending into a pit of anxiety and depression. Recently started on sertraline, and a low dose of this is nearly miraculous. I figure I've paid my dues with psychotherapy, no more of that. I do have peer support, though.
And I'm a former clinical social worker. Fuck RFK Jr. and everyone else in that goddamed administration. What a fucking nightmare. But at least now I am able to feel defiant joy in life.