You shouldn't be evaluating your diagnosis and the effects of a drug upon it, to the point of advocacy, within hours.
Your perception that you have been helped is not coming from the drug, it's coming from the conditioning before you got to the point of trying it. I was willing to put up with a lot of bullshit that would have to be rolled back if RFK just stopped prescription drug advertisements, which are definition targeted to the weakest people in their weakest moments, but that immediately disappeared from the agenda.
I have not advocated for anything. At best you could say I advocated for talking to a professional, and I do. I certainly didn’t say it would help them (try reading all the words).
> Your perception that you have been helped is not coming from the drug, it's coming from the conditioning before you got to the point of trying it.
I’ve had lots of things that were supposed to help and didn’t. I was told this may or may not help and is the first thing that has made a real difference in decades. Other than taking stimulants before and finding it weird it made me very calm.
I do not live in your country and do not see any prescription drug adverts.
Maybe that's true of some drugs for some illnesses, but stimulants absolutely do just straight-up fix most of the issues you struggle with as an ADHD person, pretty much immediately (as in, they take about an hour to kick in, and then boom). As someone who's taken them for a couple years, it really is life changing, and it's obvious it's life changing within about an hour of taking your first dose.
...mental health medications, to my knowledge, that’s the only type of medication that when people find out you’re taking it, they feel this freedom to offer up their entirely unsolicited opinions about it, right to your face, it happens all the time...
Like nobody has ever been diagnosed with diabetes and had their ignorant cousin go, “You’re gonna take insulin?” “For now, right? You’ll get off that shit someday.” No one in human history has ever said the words, “What’s so wrong with your life that you need chemotherapy?”
Your perception that you have been helped is not coming from the drug, it's coming from the conditioning before you got to the point of trying it. I was willing to put up with a lot of bullshit that would have to be rolled back if RFK just stopped prescription drug advertisements, which are definition targeted to the weakest people in their weakest moments, but that immediately disappeared from the agenda.