TchoBeer · HackerTrans

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

I remember this stage when I started taking SSRIs when I was an older teenager. I was warned about it and was seeing a short-term therapist and so I dealt with it well, but there's a short 2-4 weeks where the crushing demotivation that has dominated your life is lifted but you still are stuck in the life-despising thought spirals. I assume that much of this can be mitigated by regular consultation with mental health for the first two month while trying a new medication, but it's possible that isn't true.

TchoBeer

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

I understand this perspective, but I think that it's an overcorrection. I grew up with depression that went untreated until my late teens, and if I wasn't medicated when I was or soon thereafter I would in all likelihood not be alive today. My sister has really severe ADHD and she was unable to function until she got medicated for ADHD before teenagerhood. Saying "it's ok to be anxious and shy sometimes" is all well and good, but being shy and anxious can often be painful and prevent people from interacting socially in ways that they want to do but are too painful. I think it's probable that we are overmedicating psychological ailments, but I also would be loathe to stop medications without another solution.

TchoBeer

4 tahun yang laludiscuss

I've said this for so long. The horrible mismatched incentives that ad money has wrought is disasterous.

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