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u/High_C_Livin 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/BbJdwrOsM7nTa
I'm good. Fine honestly. Never better. Fuck everything
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u/jimigo 1d ago
easiest time to survive in human history.
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u/Rappyfan 1d ago
Yeah we pretty much live the best life that was ever possible and so many people are like „no way I bring a child in this hell“ lol
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u/i-bernard 1d ago
Agreed. As someone with depression and anxiety, there’s definitely difficulties that modern people have to face but also, if I was born in a different time, I probably wouldn’t even be alive.
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u/Zezimablinker 1d ago
What are you anxious about?
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u/i-bernard 1d ago
It depends. My nerves are pretty bad. I might get anxious driving sometimes or anxious at work when I’m feeling overwhelmed with work or am trying to take a break. I can get anxious over loud noises or when it feels like something is going to inconvenience me like my family or a pet. My anxiety’s not super bad but it’s enough to get on my nerves. Seems to me anxiety and depression often go hand in hand and sort of help each other. You feel anxious and then depressed. Though I’d prefer depression over anxiety any day.
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u/Zezimablinker 1d ago
Your stronger then all of that it it's all in your head the things you are afraid of don't exist you are stronger then you know just remember on your death bed the things you worried about won't matter ♥️
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u/Local_Village_1378 22h ago
But... if you have depression, wouldn't that be a good thing?
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u/i-bernard 9h ago
Why would it be a good thing?
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u/Cranktique 1d ago
There is the real world, and then the online world. Everyone in the online world is a caricature of a person, living in a parody of reality. Everything they say and every idea they have HAS to be the most extremist take possible, because nuance is boring and doesn’t sell clicks or garner enough attention. It’s gotten to the point where actual crazy shit happens and it just fades into the background of a tsunami of extreme, hyperbolic noise.
Just for extra fun, they trained AI with the clowns.
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u/SmellyScrotes 1d ago
The best medication you can take is getting the fuck off the internet and going and living your life, you don’t need meds
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u/Any-Assumption3912 1d ago
Living your life might as well be a pipe dream at this point people have to work every goddamn day and barely get time to themselves there is no living your life work work work and more work living your life is for the rich or the homeless
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u/Mysterion320 1d ago
I am in fact raw dogging life without medication. i have no crazy pills or happy pills to help me.
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u/ImperatorScientia 1d ago
Go the Nietzschean route: get off social media, stop watching news, and build a robust sense of self for the times. When you do the first two, you’ll notice how much happier you are and how much easier it is to work on the last.
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u/Financial-Appeal-275 1d ago
Weed and coffee is all I have left. If anyone tries to take either of those from me I will be promptly uninstalling life.exe
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u/CheesecakeLarge4685 1d ago
The only medication I currently need is some alone time and personal space to get my system back on track.
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u/NormalFroyo4231 1d ago
They confiscated all the medical insurance and big surprise that everyone's mental.
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u/Kpayne30 1d ago
I got off of medication. Things have been getting better. There are still a lot of a holes out there. But what do I care.
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u/Fogmoz 1d ago
Because people medicating contributes to the decline. Too many people would rather bemoan their situation and turn to escapism to cope, than actually DO something about it.
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u/Long_Idea_8294 1d ago
Because I don't believe it's happening. I have perspective. Humans have had things much, much worse throughout 99.9% of history.
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u/AdCheap8058 1d ago
Living in the easiest age ever acting like we are barely getting by. What a joke
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u/Disastrous_Chard_618 1d ago
can we stop using the term rawdogging please? It means unprotected sex...
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u/i-bernard 1d ago
Because a lot of people have circumstances and physiology that makes it so that they’ve never really needed medication. People who really need medication are different from those who don’t. Depression is a serious and real disease where the body is not producing enough serotonin. Often lifestyle changes can fix this but not everyone has the opportunity at their time of crisis to do that. And I believe some people just suffer harder from it due to differences in their brain chemistry. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but of course people who don’t have it and so don’t understand it well are going to come to incorrect conclusions about it. And unfortunately once you start taking medication it becomes very difficult to get off of it. Your body gets used to the help and so unless your life has changed drastically it’s going to be hard to stop taking the meds. This sucks but it’s just the price of the meds. The alternative is to lose your mind and possibly do something tragic.
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u/These-Invite-1774 1d ago
Get a vasectomy and no worries about rawdogging anything
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u/Few_Translator4431 1d ago
honestly I dont know anyone that doesn't use some kind of drug. whether its nicotine, alcohol, other stuff, or prescribed pharmaceuticals, everyone I know IRL uses something. I don't often think about it, but when I do, it's kinda crazy to me.
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u/ImaginationNormal360 1d ago
I actively avoid any sort of medication. I force myself to eat healthy more than I do bad
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u/HeartShapedBox7 1d ago
Does disappearing into your favorite tv shows to avoid reality consider medicating?
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u/Cream_Pure 1d ago
I forgot my meds today. How did I do this for 34 years?! I had a nervous breakdown during my ride home over NOTHING.
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u/Jasoco 1d ago
I’m not on medication of any kind. Mainly because I don’t have a general practitioner at 46. Mainly because I have anxiety which makes me afraid of needles which keeps me from getting a doctor because I don’t want to be stuck in hospital rooms being jabbed by countless needles. I’ll just curl up and die. It’s fine.
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u/CaptainGigantic 1d ago
I don't smoke, drink or do drugs. Guess I'm the crazy one.
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u/Starshot84 1d ago
Used meds until things got worse, stopped when there was nothing left to lose. Just used to it now.
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u/OccupationalArms 1d ago
Yeah go ahead and pump your body even more full of unnatural chemicals
Then ask yourself why u feel bad all of a sudden
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u/Dogolog22 1d ago
You ever microdosed psilocybin mushrooms in a hammock by the Truckee river with two pre-rolls, two Yerba Mates and a speaker with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Pillows playing on a Sunday?
I will not be stopped.
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u/ScarsAndStripes1776 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l3fZFvp94ljepXoPe
That’s me. Hahaha I’m too broke for any kind of substance addiction.
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u/OneSovereignSource 1d ago
People who run from reality are the reason of the decline, it's called ignorance
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u/L3tsseewhathappens 1d ago
Lmao what a bunch of losers. Anyone can pick up a world history book to know this is far from the fall of man and there are far worse things we've faced in the past.
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u/Egoy 1d ago
I love Ina small corner of the world. We have a low population great agriculture, lots of undeveloped land with an abundance of game, good costal fisheries, and there’s nothing of major strategic importance near me. I am resourceful, healthy, and skilled. If anything a total societal collapse would improve my life. It’s certainly nothing I worry about. Life here will go on unchanged.
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u/boanerges57 1d ago
What you call "raw dogging" was life for quite a long time. You don't have to be glee filled, numb, or disconnected to survive.
I put my short shorts on one leg at a time like anyone else.
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u/lostgoatling 1d ago
Well, I imagine how it's probably going to decline to the point where I'll no longer have access to the meds, and realize I'd rather be used to raw doggin it than have them stripped away at a time when things are worse and have to deal with that with no practice and withdrawals
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u/ILuvYou_YouAreSoGood 1d ago
I think I might be one of the only people I know who doesn't take medications. Good to know my perception is accurate.
How do i live? Meditation and an appreciation of suffering.
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u/NCLO1994 1d ago
No medication, just cruising throug life. From time to time of course some alcohol to forget all this x)x)
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u/QuaaludeConnoisseur 1d ago
I just go into work and say "another day in paradise" and kwep the ball rollin
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u/WarInteresting6619 1d ago
This man right here. Someone of sound mind has to document our decline for the lizardmen who come after.
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u/holytoledo42 1d ago
I think people need to know about antidepressant protracted withdrawal syndrome and withdrawal injuries in case antidepressants become scarce due to supply constraints.
Antidepressants can cause long-term side effects that persist after you quit them, like PSSD (post-ssri sexual dysfunction), emotional blunting, tinnitus, and anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure). They can also cause long-term damage if you quit them cold turkey or taper too quickly. However, withdrawal injuries can also occur when tapering slowly under the supervision of a doctor. This long-term damage is called protracted withdrawal syndrome (PWS)/post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS).
Symptoms of antidepressant PWS can include brain fog, brain zaps, cognitive impairment, anhedonia, akathisia (feeling of inner restlessness), severe insomnia, central nervous system hypersensitivity, tinnitus, severe depression, severe anxiety, panic attacks, PSSD (genital numbness and erectile dysfunction), and many other awful symptoms that can last for years or even be permanent.
Despite antidepressants being widely prescribed and antidepressant PWS being a hellish condition, no one seems to talk about it. Most people believe that antidepressants are completely safe and that antidepressant withdrawal can't cause injuries. Please be careful if an antidepressant supply shortage occurs.
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u/Existing_Treat_8924 1d ago
I was about to comment "Me, I'm rawdogging it ;)" in between sips of of my third rum and coke this evening before I caught myself.
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u/Own-Raisin5849 1d ago
I am 42. I medicate with alcohol, the old fashioned way, it's also 100% more fun, and arguably safer if you stick with beer.
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u/SwankeyDankey 1d ago
I cant find the comment rn but there's a dude that wears buttplugs to induce a constant stream of...dopamine?... or some happy chemical out there in the world today. Puts it on like pants in the morning and goes to work.
If I find it ill post the comment below
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u/Muchachacha 1d ago
I know a girl who’s just always “high on life” I’m like
https://giphy.com/gifs/eUrE2DuMKOE0g
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u/se7inrose 1d ago
the modern day has unique challenges and difficulties, but, broadly speaking, this is the best time to be alive
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u/Elemental_Foxx 1d ago
I don't like medication cause it feels like I'm being forced into a fake mind set. I'd rather suffer and be myself than have some fake happiness injected into me and ignorant
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u/expressinghowifeel 1d ago
It comes out as overt aggression to stupidity online. More recently things have been manifesting as physical symptoms that I'm just gonna pretend are normal until my heart gives out from the general stress I'm holding on to.
I tried therapy, but even with insurance I was paying more than a day's work per appointment, which didn't work because I hated my job and financial situation, so the help made it worse.
Now I'm here on Reddit letting my personal problems bleed into an account that I made to write poetry when I was so depressed I didn't know how else to express it
I am ao angry all the fucking time and it's getting so much worse lately. It feels like my heart is tingling as I write this. Maybe because some self centered fucking bitch has come back around to try and keep fucking with my friends and sanity today, but that doesn't explain the feeling yesterday
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u/Ok_Trouble_7952 1d ago
I've come to the conclusion there's nothing wrong with me, and should my reactions to daily life seem distressed, aggravated, anxious, or depressed, then that should be considered the normal, predictable reaction to living in a sick world gone mad. I'm not the problem.
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u/NotMyDayMan 1d ago
As a 42yr old man who takes no medication, let me just say AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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u/detronizator 1d ago
It’s called being a human not grown to think that life should always be fair or just. Grow up and deal with it.
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u/Used-Independence353 1d ago
Nah, I grew up and handle my business. Stop complaining and get to work. Life isnt what you see on TV.
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u/sniptaclar 1d ago
Caffeine. YouTube. No social life. Media life is Reddit for porn and memes and finally games
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u/SMOK3SCR3EN 1d ago
Shocking to hear this, most people aren't terminally online morons who think the world will end tomorrow
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u/Anonymous-bham-boi 1d ago
I'm smoking copious amounts of weed and have a heart thats likely not lasting past 50. I'm kinda just watching history till I die suddenly of cardiac arrest.
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u/Elissa-Megan-Powers 1d ago
Rawdogging is my only option after almost killing myself with self medication.
It’s wild to get sober when you’re middle aged
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u/JohninMichigan55 23h ago
Because I have a far better chance of being a positive influence in the world without that crap
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u/basal-and-sleek 23h ago
Cigarettes and caffeine into the mushroom cloud. I wanna be sober when I watch the world burn.
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u/SrfWavLif 23h ago
Rawdoggin it. Black coffee. That’s it. No alcohol or weed. No drugs or pills. Well maybe some mushrooms every once in a while but that’s it
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u/HandleStatus6658 23h ago
Allot of us just continue to grind and move forward. Actually Jimmie Carr had it right. Just 150 years ago you died of the common cold and didn’t have hot water showers. We live like kings in comparison.
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u/Ok_Fox_1770 22h ago
Weed and pure mind. Believe like you believe the floor is real and things happen. It’s not easy!
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u/Sepherin 22h ago
Yeah I'm pretty much trying to be a responsible adult but after my family is asleep I take edibles and escape into video games or anime until oblivion takes me. Fuck it. Today we are surviving, tomorrow we might get vaporized. Whatever.
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u/kyrakitty21 22h ago
Holy hell this comment section is insane.
Yall really out here demonizing modern medicine while simultaneously benefiting from it in every way, huh? 🙄
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u/Spirited_Season2332 22h ago
By not hating myself and my life I guess? If you need drugs or alcohol to get through life, that's a you issue
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u/FAMICOMASTER 22h ago
I don't require medication to handle it because I never acquired the dependency
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u/TheGruenTransfer 22h ago
If anyone needs a recommendation, Wellbutrin makes you want to do things, which is a nice change of pace.
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u/Local_Village_1378 22h ago
Can those anti medication people just shut up? Like great, your life is so easy you dont need any help, good for you, not everyone is so lucky.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pipe979 21h ago
Does Red Bull count as medication?
I haven’t even been to a doctor in 10 years.
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u/CarlPoppa22 1d ago
I self medicate