Checkmate big Pharma, I’m a poster-pilled serotonin factory now. I’ve seized the memes of endorphin production and liberated myself from Capitalism. Posting is praxis and I’ll cry if anyone tells me otherwise, so you better not! You’d hate it. I’m a real ugly cryer.
I don’t want to go back on antidepressants but on the other hand I don’t think it’s normal to cry literally all day over my circumstances in life then come home and keep on crying
I could try to improve my circumstances but I am too busy being unable to stop crying
Sometimes, we need help. That’s okay and I don’t mean for this to be anything more than a shitpost. I do hear that when you find the right drug it can minimize side effects and really improve one’s life. Love and solidarity in your pursuit of mental health comrade.
Having another chain around my neck for my employer to yank should I misbehave is something I refuse to do again. I refuse to take on a financial burden that emotionally numbs me so I will be a more effective cog in the great machine. Make no mistake, I am suffering greatly but it has always been due to my circumstances. I don’t need chemical correction. I need community, companionship, affection, purpose, and meaning. I need love. I need a life worth living.
I want to feel my feelings now. Even if it hurts. I just want it to hurt less a bit.
Highly relatable and respectable. Looking back on my previous years of depression it was absolutely a product of my material circumstances and alienation. Drugs weren’t the answer, radically restructuring my life was. I’m lucky I was able to do so, many can’t.
Two things that have helped me see mental health meds better:
- The right combination of medications does not make it easier to cope. It makes coping less necessary in the first place.
- You’re not just supposed to be along for the ride when it comes to your emotions. Everyone is swept away by their emotions sometimes, but most people can experience their emotions without numbing them while still having a baseline of control over them.
Both of these things are helped by therapy and practicing new skills, but for me, neither of them would be possible without my meds
Mushrooms helped me a ton more than SSRIs, very recommended for depression and anxiety. Of course, research a bit before taking them, don’t just trust me. They are much less toxic than the opioids the doctors give you and have a better effect on you, with moderate to high improvement of depressive symptoms within a week. You can already find studies on psylocibin for depression, and I have tried it myself to confirm those studies too, they are great.
🍄 fan club meets every 8th day of the week. You can only get there when you’re tripping hard maaaaaaaannnnnn.
Shitposting aside - yes. Please do look into Ketamine/Shrooms as an option for hard to treat depression. They are wonderful, but need to be used responsibly.
I was just telling someone yesterday that I wish people would stop giving this advice because it can be pretty harmful for a lot of mentally ill people. I don’t even have psychosis but I’ll slip into dissociating if I’m not at least a little careful, and psych usage makes that much harder. in fact the last time I used one I had to go in to the hospital bc I couldn’t get my sense of reality back even after it wore off. I’m better at knowing what’s healthy for me now but back then I was definitely influenced by people constantly talking about how helpful and wholesome psychs are, and I still blame that whole scene for positioning itself as some kind of wiser authority on mental health when frankly you’re not taking these issues seriously.
That’s why I always say to research and not just trust me, for many people it can be a miracle cure, for others it can have negative effects, I also had some bad trips until I controlled more the dosage. All I can say is that I recommend researching about them. I understand your point and I’m sorry they had a negative impact on you, but if it weren’t for posts like these that spiked my curiosity for psychedelics, I wouldn’t have discovered the medicine that cured my depression.
Lets hope that these obscure bans on drugs get repealed for research and we start making actual science and medicine with these, because today’s capitalist rather have us addicted to opioids and sell us snake oil, and banning our cures, because that’s profitable.
