How many of you here dont take meds or know someone who don´t - and are doing well?

The thing was that I was unable to control my thought processes & wound up in bouts of intense confusion. I didn’t know what time or day it was or what I should be doing. I had to quit work because it became too overwhelming.

I had to move back into my family’s house and I broke a window in a temporary fit. She called the cops on me for shouting back at the voices and for that day. They brought me into a mental ward and a case manager & doctor I was assigned to have tried to push meds on me ever since. I didn’t want to, but since I was still heavily confused & somewhat deluded about reality I decided to comply.

In retrospect I should have never been put on medication, but I wasn’t clairvoyant enough to make decisions - my imagination & mind were being completely ruled over.

P.s. - this summary is when I was FIRST put on meds. I was simply afraid of authorities at the second time I was put on meds, so I complied given the doctor’s “orders”.

It’s quite pathetic, really, that they were using meds essentially to just sedate me and keep me “behaved”. Very typical of the State & County to do that where I live.

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I saw that way too often working in a residential school for kids with autism. The kids were either optionally out of control or medication zombies. It would be nice to find a happy middle.

*completely out of control. Autocorrect trolled me again!

My wife has pharmacophobia. Hates to take any pill even Tylenol.

There are pills she needs for blood pressure, diabetes, blood clots, etc., but it is a continuing struggle to get her to look at the question rationally.