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We're not taking medication anymore! It made me too artificial.

Go ahead, flame me.

This is one of the primary reasons why I want an official AS diagnosis. I want to get off the meds! (Wellbutrin and Klonopin -- used to be Xanax and tequila.) I figure that if, as a matter of medical fact, I do have AS, then (hopefully?) depression and anxiety are the *results* as opposed to being "causes" or somehow "self-existing." Maybe what I need is behavioral therapy to fix the cause rather than medication to smooth over the results. Hoping, anyway!

Anyway, good for you. Happy to hear someone else with the same goal, even if it's for a different purpose.

I'm not on meds (I will not permit what comes from pharmaceutical labs to enter my body) and I am an Aspie. I have had serious issues with depression and anxiety in the past, but now those things are like an annoying pest because I have a much better idea of why I get that way sometimes. Knowing what brings such things on (to me) is the key to managing such aspects of living.

It's stupid to fix the symptoms while paying no attention to the real cause. It is possible for an Aspie to be generally free from depression and anxiety, but to achieve that requires work and maintenance. Therapists think it's possible to achieve this goal faster with the use of meds, but I can't help but wonder how that's possible when meds affect how you think.

To me, it seems better to have a mind clear from any influence of drugs in order to think best. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but (for the most part) meds seem to be too big of a portion in the political/economic fabric of today's society.

Even though I actively pursued what measures I needed to take to structure my life in order to care for it better, I couldn't have known how to do it if I didn't pray and study the bible like I do. I've been to gobs of therapists in the past (talked with some in the near present) and NONE of them ever helped me. Instead, I felt like I was teaching them. I'm not the only Aspie who thinks therapists are a waste of time and money.

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I hope you feel better without the medications; just be very careful. I did the same thing; went cold turkey without the meds. It's not safe and it's not something I can recommenced but I understand why we do it. Sometimes they really make us feel worse and the side affects can be scary. It also sucks when no one listens to your feelings and instead they just add another prescription to the list or up the dosage.

Whoa, just remembered something after reading this post. Although I advocated being med-free above, I had worked my way up to a fairly large daily dose of Xanax (about 6mg/day) a few years ago. Coming off that *absolutely* requires pretty close medical attention/observation -- maybe even hospitalization. I don't know what you're taking, but don't have a seizure and die! That will make you *really* "artificial."