What are your thoughts on psych drugs, such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilisers, etc?
Doctors love to prescribe these drugs. But they have very bad side effects, based on what I’ve read. And they can give you strong withdrawals when you try to come off them. Also, should we really be medicalising emotions and taking drugs to emotionally cope with the world? Maybe we need things like friends, family, social connections, to make the world more enjoyable.
What do you think?
I was given SSRIs and after those caused explosive reactions later rediagnosed Bipolar Type 1 and prescribed mood stabilizers. The SSRI put me in an odd haze and stunted my emotional abilities to look more naive/childlike, with rare outbursts of emotion loosely connected to anything rational, ending in me taking midnight walks in bad places sobbing and manic the whole time. When I was prescribed Lamictal as mood stabilizer, it did work bit but I started to notice a split-brain where my thoughts and external body were disconnected and I felt trapped unable to actually express what I feel in my mind. Then those made my eyes bleed and got The Rash so I quit and gave up and stopped all mental health care, then later moved. The best thing I got out of it was all the eye-opening therapy and counseling. Things have gotten better since then, unmedicated, but keeping calm and meditating inward is still sometimes tough.