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Old Aug 20, 2016, 06:36 PM
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Responsabilities motivates me to stay on medication. If I did not,

1. My daughter would live with her mother and go to a school that is much worse. I also could not help her with her homework. 2. I would lose my mother to the State. 3. Quite possibly I would be in a psych hospital. 4. I would lose my house

Just to name a couple reasons. IMO people with responsabilities are taking big risks with their own lives and the lives of others by skipping their meds. But if you have zero responsability, your on disability, and you can deal with the resulting havoc to your life, then that is different. Please keep this in mind. Then there is the question of why you are on medications in the first place. What has changed? Side effects should not be an issue. Take different meds. But in the greater scheme of things, stability is worth the discomfort. Keep in mind that there are those with much worse physical problems that make it day to day.

I wish you well.

Tucson
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