hoosierbuddy:

“We are not depressed; we’re on strike. For those who refuse to manage themselves, “depression” is not a state but a passage, a bowing out, a sidestep towards a political disaffiliation. From then on medication and the police are the only possible forms of conciliation. This is why the present society doesn’t hesitate to impose Ritalin on its over-active children, or to strap people into life-long dependence on pharmaceuticals, and why it claims to be able to detect “behavioral disorders” at age three. Because everywhere the hypothesis of the self is beginning to crack.”

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The Coming Insurrection (via jhnbrssndn)

I couldn’t agree with this more.  I’m the only person I know, not a pill for anxiety/depression/whatever else everybody is on a pill for.  It’s become a world of labels and pills, which has watered down the ones who truly do need some kind of medication.  These days, people have become so weak that they can’t function without their Xanax, which might sound harsh, but it does seem like everybody’s on a med, and some need to just buck up and deal.

NO offense meant.

(via jmarie3)

I once heard a true story about a stockbroker who worked on Wall Street. He went to his doctor and asked to be placed on medication for stress. The doctor started to ask him about the stress he was experiencing, and the stockbroker interrupted and said, “You don’t understand. I want you to give me something so I can handle more stress.”

Pretty sad, huh?

Totally sad. Most of my friends are on an even keel and don’t take meds. Most don’t even take meds that their doctors recommend. Me, I take levothyroxin to fix an imbalance due to my thyroid not working right and Zyrtec so that I don’t snot all over everyone. I am mostly calm cool and collected and am great at calming down friends who get anxious. They call me. They recommend me to other friends. I am really really glad that my mom took my sister and I to a hippie doctor in California who suggested coffee and lower sugar diets for us instead of medicating for our hyperactivity. And by hyperactivity, I seriously do mean curtain climbing (and refrigreator climbing) in my older sister’s case. We got through childhood pretty easily and ended up being able to handle the crap that comes up in life. Some other people I know, who were medicated for the same things, didn’t do so well and/or are still medicated. If you consider coffee and lower sugar my medication, I am usually still medicated too, although sometimes I fall off the bandwagon.