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Old Apr 15, 2016, 07:46 PM
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Plenty of people live med free. It's just a matter of your quality of life. If your quality of life is high without meds, then you can stay off of them. No need to medicate if you don't think it's a problem, although we are not always fully aware of how our behavior is affecting others. So even if you don't think there's a problem, if someone is telling you you get vindictive and hurtful when you're angry you might want to look into that. Not saying that's true for you, just giving an example.

Personally I cannot live med free. I did for six years but my illness was in a remission of sorts. Now that it's in full swing again it's impossible. I do end up hurting myself, and sometimes hurting others. I'm much happier on meds. But it took three years to find the right ones that didn't have intolerable side effects.
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Thanks for this!
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