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I get this newtus, unfortunately the doctors had no problem in the past giving labels, on paper as well. I've been oficially diagnosed and undiagnosed many many names. Bipolar, schizo, manic, ptsd, borderline, DID, even OCD, and many of which are no where near the truth in me.
I understand and see that many people do need meds, at least at some point in life. The problem is, when people focus on the names over the symptoms and the treatment. I've been on antipsychotics, I've been on mood stabalizers, and that's when I'm obviously psychotic, when taking the meds that are supposed to help me. Even anti depressants make me depressed, the one and only time I may have ever been close to suicidal was when I started antidepressants.
While meds may work for some, when you put a label on someone, you group them with that label and automatically decide that the treatment that worked for the rest of the group will work for this individual but that's just it, they are an individual and should be treated as such, not as the title they were given
I've been in the medicine field for YEARS, and been off meds for even longer, and must say with 100% certainty, I'm 100 times better off the meds, even when I'm at my worst, I am so much better than I was on meds.
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I'd lock my hands behind my head, I'd cover my heart and hit the deck, I'd brace myself for the impact if I were you.
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