I indeed tend to see AP’s similarly. I do see them as changing my authentic self. I do not believe medications are always taken to correct something that is not working properly.
In diabetes there is a proven physical failure and the medications in a specific way correct that. It isn’t that clear in psychological diseases. Nobody ever has proven that I had an “overdose of dopamine” before given “dopamine-numbers”. Or that this was the cause of my problems. Maybe having gotten myself in a ■■■■■■ up situation (let’s say, a sociopathic ex threatening to totally mess up my kid, who was still a baby, and CPS willfully and gladly helping him with that, saying a sociopath could be a good dad too) was the reason for my fear. More so than a disfunctional dopamine system. I think when I wasn’t fearful yet, that was more disfunctional than when I got scared.
Maybe the medications, whether AD or AP, don’t correct a physical illness in a person, but simply numb their awareness of everything inside and outside themselves. This can obviously be very helpful too…walking around so crazily scared that I can’t function is not very bearable to self and others, even if it is the adequate emotion in the specific circumstances. 
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I think the stigma behind mental illness and its treatment is still high.
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I think you misunderstand what I am trying to say or I misexpress myself. I do not wish to belittle your experience.
I am critical of the way ADs are now used. Everyone should use them as they wish. But I have seen them be used when they were really helpful, like when people want to unalive themselves a lot, as you say.
I have also seen people - and I am talking about myself - use medications, while at the same time staying in really bad circumstances like an abusive relationship. I think in this case an AD might be less helpful than correcting the circumstances. For in MY specific situation, not OTHER PEOPLES, I feel that I should have corrected the circumstances and my character and not my brain chemicals.
I think if many people need an AD to function in a society, the society might want to see how to create better life circumstances. That doesn’t mean I look down on you for using an AD or decide whether that is helpful or not in your specific circumstances. I think it was not helpful in my specific circumstances.
I do not say I know when people need medication. I say situations exist when better circumstances are more helpful than medications. Giving myself as an example. The girl in the bad marriage I gave as a second example, because she herself felt the AD use was a bad idea in retrospect, it was her own judgment actually, not mine.
Could you tell me where I said I know which individual needs an AD and who doesnt? Or that people who use an AD are somehow less? Because that is not my opinion.
I feel offended and think it is pompous and judgemental that you judge me for simply a different view on ADs.
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Again, you don’t have a right nor knowledge to decide if those circumstances needed or did not need medication. Doesn’t matter how much you explain it, it’s a pompous attitude.
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Closing as this is just going in circles and is insulting to those who rely on ADs.
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