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yukie((Yeah this is - me and one of the boys in concert. He doesn't have my issues but neither of us like ignorant liars with agendas, so he's out. :B Also: I am a jerk in this entry, and profane, so if you're not in the mood, you're not gonna wanna read this!))
Authors, if you're going to be writing about any psychiatric medication, be it SSRI, NDRI, stimulant, or otherwise?
Do your research.
Don't just rely on scarequote bullshit and dumb photomanips of newspaper comic strips.
I'm very tired of agenda pushers who have no idea about shit on a stick preaching from on high about how all drugs is bad and all I need to do is cheer up and focus.
You know what, you abysmally ignorant whelps, you sons and daughters of mongrel whores?
I am better now that I have my medication.
I am no longer suicidal. I am no longer losing gaps of time because I lost my temper so badly that everything clicked off. I no longer hate myself so badly that I want to stop being.
I can focus. I have been able to relearn how to think - yeah, meds alone didn't work for me. Cognitive therapy plus meds? Yeah. That.
The medication prescribed for kids with ADD is not sedative. It's actually stimulant. You'd think that would be entirely counterproductive, but if you did your fucking homework, you useless whelps, you'd know WHY stimulants are prescribed.
But you're all so much more interested in pushing your agenda. So much more interested in calling me a liar and pretending that my mental disorders are just character flaws and that nothing ever happens outside your narrowminded pitiful understanding of reality.
(You're an ignorant and I hope your awakening is the most shocking, shattering and painful one possible.)
Yes, there is a problem with misdiagnosis and overmedication, but let's be reasonable, little ones, shall we? The plural of anecdote is not data. Paxil made me worse; Paxil is wonderful for others. If I condemned Paxil as useless and said no one should ever take it because it's shit and anyone who gets results is kidding themselves, I'd be acting like a privileged son of dust. I hated Effexor; some people like it. I'm on Wellbutrin and some people can't stand it.
I'm also on Adderall for ADD. The condition exists. Do not preach to me about how it doesn't, I will ridicule you and slap you down with your own ignorance until you wish yourself deceased. And you know what? The Adderall has actually increased my art output and writing output, and what I produce is BETTER. I FINISHED a story, something I could never do before. I can focus on my art, get interrupted by the phone, take the call, and then go back to my art without having my focus shattered into a million sharp little fragments like before. I don't forget to eat like I used to. I can stick with a task even when it's boring me to death. I COULD NOT DO ANY OF THIS BEFORE.
I have a job. I've had it for about three years now.
I am happy much of the time. I am thriving.
It's not all the medication, but the medication is like extra support for a structure.
The wrong medication is awful. It's like the wrong shoe size.
Getting it right is like a new pair of damn sneakers after walking in cheap offbrand ones for seven years.
tl;dr Do not make foolish, uninformed, self-righteous, vainglorious, conceited statements about other people's lives and minds around me if you want to keep your precious ego intact. Dare to suggest that my doctors and my friends are liars and I will shatter you utterly. Call me what you want, I don't give a christ, but do not cast aspersions on people I care for, or you will suffer.
Mental illness and disorders are real.
If you wish to write about them, and the treatment thereof, do your homework, you self-important children. Ritalin and Adderall aren't sedatives and you don't treat depression with antipsychotics.
Do your homework, ignorants. Don't, and you have no right to cry and whine and fuss when I savage you for foolishness. If you're stupid online you'll get called on it.
Authors, if you're going to be writing about any psychiatric medication, be it SSRI, NDRI, stimulant, or otherwise?
Do your research.
Don't just rely on scarequote bullshit and dumb photomanips of newspaper comic strips.
I'm very tired of agenda pushers who have no idea about shit on a stick preaching from on high about how all drugs is bad and all I need to do is cheer up and focus.
You know what, you abysmally ignorant whelps, you sons and daughters of mongrel whores?
I am better now that I have my medication.
I am no longer suicidal. I am no longer losing gaps of time because I lost my temper so badly that everything clicked off. I no longer hate myself so badly that I want to stop being.
I can focus. I have been able to relearn how to think - yeah, meds alone didn't work for me. Cognitive therapy plus meds? Yeah. That.
The medication prescribed for kids with ADD is not sedative. It's actually stimulant. You'd think that would be entirely counterproductive, but if you did your fucking homework, you useless whelps, you'd know WHY stimulants are prescribed.
But you're all so much more interested in pushing your agenda. So much more interested in calling me a liar and pretending that my mental disorders are just character flaws and that nothing ever happens outside your narrowminded pitiful understanding of reality.
(You're an ignorant and I hope your awakening is the most shocking, shattering and painful one possible.)
Yes, there is a problem with misdiagnosis and overmedication, but let's be reasonable, little ones, shall we? The plural of anecdote is not data. Paxil made me worse; Paxil is wonderful for others. If I condemned Paxil as useless and said no one should ever take it because it's shit and anyone who gets results is kidding themselves, I'd be acting like a privileged son of dust. I hated Effexor; some people like it. I'm on Wellbutrin and some people can't stand it.
I'm also on Adderall for ADD. The condition exists. Do not preach to me about how it doesn't, I will ridicule you and slap you down with your own ignorance until you wish yourself deceased. And you know what? The Adderall has actually increased my art output and writing output, and what I produce is BETTER. I FINISHED a story, something I could never do before. I can focus on my art, get interrupted by the phone, take the call, and then go back to my art without having my focus shattered into a million sharp little fragments like before. I don't forget to eat like I used to. I can stick with a task even when it's boring me to death. I COULD NOT DO ANY OF THIS BEFORE.
I have a job. I've had it for about three years now.
I am happy much of the time. I am thriving.
It's not all the medication, but the medication is like extra support for a structure.
The wrong medication is awful. It's like the wrong shoe size.
Getting it right is like a new pair of damn sneakers after walking in cheap offbrand ones for seven years.
tl;dr Do not make foolish, uninformed, self-righteous, vainglorious, conceited statements about other people's lives and minds around me if you want to keep your precious ego intact. Dare to suggest that my doctors and my friends are liars and I will shatter you utterly. Call me what you want, I don't give a christ, but do not cast aspersions on people I care for, or you will suffer.
Mental illness and disorders are real.
If you wish to write about them, and the treatment thereof, do your homework, you self-important children. Ritalin and Adderall aren't sedatives and you don't treat depression with antipsychotics.
Do your homework, ignorants. Don't, and you have no right to cry and whine and fuss when I savage you for foolishness. If you're stupid online you'll get called on it.
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Date: 2009-12-28 02:17 am (UTC)Nah, not your fault, I'm just pedantic. Mostly I was wondering if the reason some people think depression is treated with antipsychotics is because of that occasional situation, or because they've confused it with borderline or bipolar or something.
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Date: 2009-12-28 05:05 am (UTC)Blah I dunno man! It seems a lot of people don't wanna bother with 'homework' even if it's just basic lolwiki. And I keep going like, 'half my friends who want to be pro authors cannot google WHYEEEEEE' because you guys have never been strangers to doing the dang research, and Drak and Kyl and the hootenanny are the same - but then there's this other bunch who apparently have broken google fingers? I don't even know man.
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Date: 2009-12-28 05:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-28 07:00 am (UTC)Or like, CSI or House.
(though! I will give CSI that they managed to get BDSM kinda right in a bunch of respects that are usually dicked up beyond reason.)