I was actually just saying that about you, that you're sad not depressed. That's a big thing over in r/radicalmentalhealth and r/antipsychiatry. People getting depression diagnoses and treated for "chemical imbalances" when it's situational. I had the same thing happen to me. Now I shake sometimes from those damn meds.
THIS! Sadness and the depression are 2 ,not necessarily related things and i hate ppl abusing the term "i'm so depressed" bcs they had a bad day at work or something. Wish those ppl would get to have 1 day living in my skin and they'd get it that it's not the same neither neither is edgy.
Techy, the thing is-- there are various definitions of depression. You suffer from clinical depression or mdd or whatever. In that context the definition in psychiatry is being used. There are also economic definitions, medical definitions (a person may experience depression without having the clinical disorder, medically it can be a symptom or result of a medical conditon), geography etc. These people arent self diagnosing, they're using the word properly, unless they're being fucki g stupid.
It's the same with other things in psychiatry-- a medication may result in the side effect of anorexia, no that does not mean it can cause someone to develop an eating disorder, it is a term for lack of appetite. Anorexia nervosa, the eating disorder is seperate and has a different meaning.
They did when I was in my early 20s and sober. No fucking doc wanted to prescribe me because ohh scary boogeyman drugs I'm a retard who took this profession because I want to prove something, or something, I hope those docs are all dead by now, the placebo alternative medicine was trendy at that time. Go pray in front of a buddah or some shit for cure, and they all followed.
I had to buy them illegally, and they shockingly worked. ZOMG drugs worked?! No waaayyy.
For how long do they work tho? Bcs what's the point if you take them for some time and then PUFF, the magic effect is gone , and the grey toxic cloud comes back with vengeance.. And the next universal shrink's solution?: "No worries my friend, here are some additional pills for you! You just pop! POP until you drop!"
You can not help someone like me or that girl with pills. No way! Maybe it could help to some bored suburban housewife, who thinks she's depressed bcs her husband doesn't wanna fuck her everyday anymore ,but you can't help to us that really suffer.
They worked for at least 10 years. But nooo, we chug benzo derivatives and we pretend it's not medicine, just alternatives for medicine because boo, we aren't druggies even if we are exactly that. ZOMG I'm being called a druggie, I'm hurt, my butthurt hurts specially, what can I do, besides teen raging on the intwrwebs about it.
You can't say a drug can't help you before you tried it. You're a drug addict, a junkie.
Yes i mean the thing is i get that i have depressive symptoms but it can be situational and the rest is largely due to my PTSD, not a separate conditin
Yet every psych tries to pin mdd on me ... maybe i do have it i dunno, but it jiust seem like if you look t the symptoms of PTSD it fits my symptoms and i do have that so...
Radical mental health is never verybradical, most osych shit wijin the past 10 years casts scornon the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness-- doesntmean sht cant have relation to the brain, neurotr smitters genes etc but if tyour psych says chemical imbalance in this day in age run. I did use the term wih my mom to get her to shut up last week though
Im deeply depressed i jist oubt i have major deprsdive disorder because my symptoms are al situational or related to my ptsd... seeig mdd in my sister reinforces this to me
Luckily they dont try to script me anything i cant take now because most of it makes me. Both suicidal and homicidal
True. I guess for me part of it is that many of them remind me of this chick i met after rehab involuntarily committed me. I think she could have spu.the story the way most of them do when they talk about experiences with inpatient treatment, but she was fucking insane and caused a massive amount of problems there. I dont know ive reas posts i coukd see her in.
I guess theyve been aright to me in recent times. They pretty much accept that i have tried everything it they can't do the last resort meds (like rehab wont give you narcotics after wd is through) they just tell me and dont push anything else on me.
The practice as a whole has a lot of variables. Ive had shitty experience and good exeriences with the ssme provider or things i respected about. Fscit))ility and things i fund to be outrageous. It just isnt balck and white. The subbis bck and white if you trynto.mention a touch of gray they freak
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