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[+] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

lots of therapists prescribe drugs these days, because reality is ... bleak for some

as for me, i've never taken medicine in the last 15 years or so, and i try to avoid taking any, except maybe the occasional mescalin. but that is for recreation and not for sleeping disorders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Where the hell do you find mescalin? That's a bucket list item for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You will find that there are lots of folks these days that have trouble coping with the collective stress of a bleak present and future.

Meds just help us feel closer to normal so we can function instead of having a nervous breakdown every other week.

I’m a little envious that you have the resiliency and coping mechanisms outside of meds to deal with it all

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t know if this is something to be proud of tbh.

You’re basically saying ‘my life is secure; fuck everybody else that hasn’t got what I have’.

I’m glad you built a good base for yourself, now help lift up others. It doesn’t stop sucking for everyone else just because you check out.

IMO you have the obligation to create the environment that allows what you have (an existence without worry for politics) for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think you’re overestimating the influence of doomscrolling, internet and politics in the scope of needing meds to feel baseline, but it definitely plays a part.

Those things, broadly speaking, are somewhat transient unless said politics directly affect your safety or rights to live life, or of those you care about. This applies to a lot of people.

Now I'm retired at age 55. My house is paid off. I have no debt. Live in a beautiful mountain city of 500,000 people. I have chickens in my backyard

now I just fuck around on Lemmy all day, write and publish my fiction, and take trips with my gf.

This is more in line with why many in my cohort are struggling. Your situation is out of reach for most of us now because of a whole lot of economic reasons outside of our control. The singular person being able to side hustle their way to a house with backyard chickens and money for vacations is a win no doubt, but also the exception to the rule.

Lifting our noses off the grindstone and looking at the horizon shows a future without hope of any of this changing. Too much stacked against us.

And for lots of other long term reasons. One off the top of my head, the microplastics accumulating in our bodies. That’s definitely going to be a problem.

My point is that a lot of people would be well served by not worrying so fucking much about the state of politics and the world at large

The cliff notes version is that people are surviving, not living. You are living.

You should enjoy the fruits of your labor, truly. Just be aware your path isn’t one we can follow anymore

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

based and not giving a fuck pilled

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

In my experience with SSRIs, I couldn’t sleep for shit the first couple days, then my body got used to it and it was no problem after

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just try not taking the antidepressant, see what happens...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

why is this downvoted?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Because people think I'm saying to just not take antidepressants rather than if you stop taking them, the withdrawal is going to really suck.