First, I gotta say I love the Icarus Project. They seem so refreshingly human in their approach to one's emotional quirks.

For me it's not even the issue of being or not being on psychmeds... but rather the problem of informed choice. Which the article captures well.

Have you ever questioned the logic of the phrase "She wouldn't be refusing medication if she wasn't ill"?

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If I refuse, it's the side effects. They can treat them with more medication. If it isn't that I lack insight. I don't know I'm sick.


Some of us are not denying we have a problem. We just don't see how chemistry will help much. Or some cannot see the side effects being a reasonable trade off here. And it seems to be not well respect. I have been told here and elsewhere how I should not talk about being well off and not on meds, because it might prevent people from getting treatment. So we don't have a voice, like others because we chose a different route? It is frustrating to see stigma within the MH community.

Lack of insight? Yeah, the author is right. It comes to one's choice. But don't we deserve support and guidance in that too? Maybe a safety net?


and Perna... what does society do with it if I take meds or not? Dangerous I am not. And then again, being gay was a disorder listed in precious DSM not so long ago (and some states in the US still have laws prohibiting sex in other position than misionary). Not to rattle just on the US, my country locked up people in psychwards or sent them to mine Uranium for disagree with MarxLeninEngels doctrine. And you could be in major trouble for being long haired guy. Or listening to rock music. Or not greeting your neighbor who was member of the Party politelly enough. So I don't really think society as whole should have much to say here.