Do you take psychiatric medication?

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I'm curious to know how common taking this kind of medication is among us.

I do, but I think that a person without ASD who had the same life experiences I do would need them, too.

Of course, we’re more likely to be bullied and abused so that’s probably a factor.

A more interesting result would be achieved if you could also break this down by how successful the person is in living with their condition(s). My contention would be that in the main, people who do take meds fare better than those who don't. Just a guess though.

Bear in mind that alcohol and marijuana are some of the oldest psychiatric drugs ... they just don't get written very often in most places. A lot of people who shun prescription drugs are self-medicating, often unwisely.

Psych meds? Likely never ever took one.

No diets to follow, I don't smoke or drink. I only drink coffee out of pleasure than need for energy, I don't drink tea... I don't even take vitamins.
Recreational drugs are outright and infamously illegal from where I live.

And I barely take meds for allergies. Because my 'allergies' are also turned out to be idiopathic. So it's more or less pointless.

Unless one counts drowse antihistamines, and sugar for psych meds...


My mental is good. Emotional health is also good.
I'm just as clueless and uncertain as any aspie in life. But that doesn't mean I'm just as beaten up or abused.

Success? Well, the standards of success here is a bit different.
If the bar of success is the western standards of success and achievement, then the majority of people I've known in my life are 'very unsuccessful'. Most of them are, for few generations now.

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No medication for me.

I find that hard to believe. You're too easygoing to not be on something. Lithium perhaps.

i want to believe that i'm strong enough to make myself happy and fulfilled without the need for medication or foreign chemicals, but that seems to be more and more unlikely and unrealistic as time goes on.

apart from a one month period in 2016 when i was on xanax to soothe an intense bout of anxiety and general panic i had when a speck of dirt flew into my eye and stayed there for two days....no, i was never on any medication.

i hope that will change, though. anything to help claw myself out of this absolutely miserable hole i'm in. i do smoke some weed and i like the sensation of being high, but i don't do it often cause i'm too stupid to get my own and i usually just smoke whenever my sister or friend has when i come over.

Mirtazapine here. Hopefully quite a bit more than this if I can get a job with a better health plan.

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No I don`t but I did twelve years ago. I tried different types of SSRI`s for about eight years and eventually, together with my doctor, decided to stop because they didn`t seem to have any effect on me(my doctor agreed). I didn`t feel any different on them than off them and couldn`t detect any help from them. They simply didn`t seem to make any difference.
I personally know people who feel they have benefited from SSRI`s and are satisfied with them so I don`t doubt they can help but they didn`t help me.

I care for my mental health by sticking firmly to personally suited healthy coping strategies, seeking what is good for me as well as consulting a psychologist.