Would you be able to survive without medication?

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Do you think you'd be able to live and survive without medication?

I try to.

One day hopefully, but at the moment, no chance.

Of course, it's not like it's keeping me breathing or anything.

I've never been on a medication, other than antibiotics every other year.

Most likely not.

I take Dilantin for a seizure disorder. The problem is under complete control with minimal medication, but I cannot go off it entirely. It could be dangerous to go off it for extended periods. I wouldn't want to risk choking on food if I had a seizure.

I would survive, but I would be a lot more panicky, worried and anxious.

When I have major depressions, I *HAVE* to take an antidepressant or I will perish. Modern medicine stands room for improvement but it has come a long way in helping to save lives.

Proaby, I'm not sure other people would survive me without medication, lol

Lol im a severe asthmatic. i found this hilarious.

Anyway i take depakote and asthma meds, and when im not taking either, its no good at all.

it would probably be more like he said:

I am not on meds...I often wish I was.

I assume you mean medicine that helps with mental health? Like antidepressants, anti-anxiety, moods, etc?

I only take medication for some backpain, but other then that im good without it, just dont like to go without it but do if I dont have enough $$ for that week to get them.

I'm not medicated, I rarely take any rx meds, and I've never taken meds for my AS. I've been very surprised and rather disconcerted by the number of people on this forum who are on meds. In some cases (say, like 9CatMom's seizure meds) it's understandable, but it's more than that. It seems a lot of people are convinced they should be medicated, and it makes me wonder how legit it all is. I have never known HF autistics or Aspie in real life as medicated as some of the people around here claim to be, except in cases where the person was misdx'd and given the wrong meds (often to very bad results). Everything I've learned about therapuetic methods for autistics suggests meds don't really work or they have significant side effects that render them less effective. So why are some many supposedly known autistics on so many medications? It seems like it's assumed we're all medicated, judging by jjstar's question. Am I missing something here?

I have been on meds for depression and depression specifically, but that was only one small part of my overall treatment for depression specifically, which was exactly what I was told by the shrink. I was in psychotherapy 3 times longer than I was on meds and I've had to overhaul my diet and lifestyle as well. Yet I get the impression that a lot of people here are simply medicated - and perhaps more to suppress whatever is wrong (or believed to be wrong) rather that for actual therapuetic purposes. It's like people aren't really trying to improve their situation and be in control of their own lives - it's more like they've just accepted they're f***ed and they should just take whatever some doctor says to take. I don't think that's how any of these people wish to come across, yet that's the impression I'm getting. I've seen post after post about meds, yet virtually none about cognitive therapies, behavior modifications, coping skill learning or lifestyle changes. I don't mean to be passing judgement on anyone, but it is troubling when you look at it that way.

That is so exactly what i was thinking and feeling. I've been on anti-deps once, for about three months, and been in counselling twice for several months each time, but the biggest changes i have made to my state of mind and body has been with diet. I almost never go to the doctor, never take anti-biotics, never buy any over the counter drugs other than aspirin/paracetomol and Vit C from time to time. I used to have weekly headaches, bad feverish colds/flu every couple of months, allergies to mosquito bites which made summer hell, practically permanent depression and anxiety, aswell as having a breakdown after three years of worsening mood-disorder. Aswell as the AS which was all tangled/tied up with the depression. I am still AS, and still suffer from inertia, but almost everything else i've cured with diet.
But then i remember being actually more shocked on an NT site, supposedly for the normally "healthy", to find out how many people were suffering from chronic health problems which to me are often simply diet connected,and were dealing with them by medication. ( One person even preferred to wear a mask to aid breathing at night because of sleep apnea, than give up cream cakes and pastries. And a lot of people say " i could never give up ..." and would rather take meds/be ill than stop that food habit. )
But then i probably wouldn't have taken my health in hand, or even realised that it was my responsibility, that i could do something about it, if i had not had a powerful out of body moment 15 years ago in which i perceived my body as a sep creature that would do anything it could for me, and that could be cared for, by ME.
( I obviously understand that some medication is virtually essential for survival for some people, or at least their safety.)

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