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I sit on a bed thoroughly convinced that I can write a masterpiece in 5 minutes. Four milligrams of Xanax can't help but further my inability to judge anything as worth reading.
We're the prescription generation, no doubt about it. Feeling sad? Pop a pill. Bored? Pop a pill. Tired of your ex-girlfriend calling you in the wee small hours of the morning screaming at you and swearing on her mother's grave that she's seconds away from jumping in front of a truck because you’re such an ass? Pop a pill. I'm convinced that people are supposed to feel shitty anyway. Feeling good is really just a nice way to describe not feeling shitty. Happiness is pretty much unattainable.
- No ….scratch that.
No sooner had I written those words than did something happy enter my mind. Imagine five hot naked virgins fighting for you. No drugs necessary for that kind of happiness (unless you're fucking 90.)
Maybe I'll convert to Islam. It's not an entire bad life - except for the blowing up part.
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I chose to reject the ADHD medications I was prescribed when diagnosed, and instead work on myself. Ten years later I no longer fit the ADHD diagnostic criteria, and have a reasonable attention span *and* can sit still.
I also chose to reject the SSRIs prescribed for depression, and instead face what my life truly consisted of. Five years later, I am relatively content. Seldom joyous, perhaps, but seldom miserable.
I'm a part of this generation, but actually, I'm not.
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i pushed away ssri's for a long time, until i hit rock bottom. finally, i caved in. even after a couple weeks of taking them, i wanted to jump in front of a train. i was drinking a bottle of wine every day. i was binging and purging. i was mentally anhilated. i took the damn things for about a year. after about five months i started to get my shit together. by the end of the year i decided to stop taking all medications, including the birth control pill (the_pill), cold_turkey. i never had withdrawals; as a matter of fact, on the contrary, i felt almost immediately better. i'm not sure if it was the pills that helped me pull through, i think they played a small role (at least they took the suicidal edge off after a while), and the rest was just me, clawing away at my hole until i once_again saw the light.
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paxhell
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my suicide attempt was while ON ssris
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jane
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yeah, it's pretty much all mental
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u24
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paxhell; some SSRIs have actually been linked to increased suicide attempts, so that's probably why.
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