Posted by Phidippus on December 31, 2009, at 15:57:03
Drugs do little to take away from the basic person you are and are really designed to eliminate the symptoms of mental illness which do much more to abscond the 'real you' than the side effects of most drugs. I can not function as the 'real' me without Lithium, period. I lose myself to the symptoms of my illness without a simple metal.
Does the cancer patient lose themselves to the bone-burning effects of their chemotherapy? No. We mentally disabled were born with inadequacies instilled in our thinking organ and those inadequacies can cripple us in an instant. We toil with invisible disabilities and need medication just as much as the sufferer of MS.
Without medication we can't be ourselves, otherwise riddled with anxiety, fending off voices or riding the waves of impossible emotions. An array of pills are available to us and more than likely we choose the pills that make us feel best and suit our basic selves. Pills can never make us something we are not because we reject those that make us feel not-ourselves.
Hopefully this new year will see most of us faring well and succeeding in beating back the gremlins of our respective mental ailments. And cheers to all those colored beauties we pop on a regular basis-may the science that delivers them grow ever more sharp.
PHIDIPPUS
ADHD/BP II/OCD/CDH
Geodon 120 mg
Keppra 2000 mg
Lithium 1200 mg
Prozac 40 mg
Vyvanse 70 mg
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