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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
In my experience, both parents and doctors were much less likely to push the meds if I came up with some alternative plan.
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Exactly! Don't just say, "I don't want those meds." Start taking care of yourself. Looking for alternatives. You probably aren't going to convince them that eating better, for example, will cure you. But if you start eating better - and doing other wellness things - and you actually get better, they'll leave you alone eventually.
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I had no intention of re-evaluating, but there were occasions where that approach kept me off drugs I didn't want.
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I suspect newtus as already gained a reputation for noncompliance. If I were newtus, I think I'd pull myself together and go in there and say, "I'll take the meds, but I'd also like to be assigned a therapist and a case manager."
Then I'd start looking around for alternatives and put those into place in my life.
And I'd stop abusing all medications - prescription or OTC - because people will eventually notice and it will be taken as further evidence that I can't care for myself and need an external locus of control.
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It helps if you aren't talking about planes switching on your telly or whatever, though :-/
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Yes. Don't talk about that stuff with them. Us, ok. Them, no.