I do not believe the government is out to control our minds via medication. As one of the other posters said, though, pharmaceutical companies are for profit. We know that. Yes, there is a motive to make money. But that doesn't mean they are not producing drugs that are genuinely useful. The two are not mutually exclusive - making money and making useful products.

Sure, I would love to jettison all of my meds. It's sort of a pain taking them. But I really don't want to go back to crippling depression and miserable anxiety. On the right meds, I don't feel zombified. I feel like I am restored to my normal self, with my normal feelings and enthusiasms back. They are not perfect, but they sure are helpful. I owe my graduate degree to an antidepressant that gave me enough focus back and relieved my symptoms enough to let me actually write my thesis. Boy was I grateful.

Great and creative minds (not that I think I'm one of them... don't function all that well or do their great and creative things when they're in the throes of really bad mental illness.

I'm sorry you feel you are being medicated against your wishes, being still a minor. I would not like that either. Have you discussed your concerns with your parents and your psychiatrist? They should listen to your concerns and talk them through with you and work with you on decisions. Are you seeing a therapist, and if so, have you discussed your concerns with him or her? If you're getting obsessed about this, you really need to be talking to a therapist about it.

But Let's step back for a moment and put that issue aside (consent about meds). Let me ask a few other questions:

1. How bad were your anxiety and depression and OCD? Were you suffering badly? I am guessing you may have been to have been medicated at a young age and for so long, but only you and your family know your history.

2. Have you gotten any relief from of your symptoms with the meds?

3. When/if you did not feel you were getting relief, or when you had too many side effects, did your doctor work with you to find better options?

4. Were you at all satisfied with your meds prior to reading/thinking about and getting concerned about government control of your thoughts? In other words, are you letting fear drive your concerns, as opposed to objectively taking stock of how effective the medications are? Try to get some help divorcing your thoughts form worry about government control and try to objectively think about whether aspects of your life are better (or not) with meds, and if so, which symptoms and which meds.

If you want to stop your meds to see how you do without them, that's something best decided in collaboration with your doctor. If you do it, then the two of you would plan it out and do it slowly. If you do great without them, that would be really nice, but there's also nothing wrong with being prepared to go back on if you feel really miserable off meds.

Good luck.