depression, anxiety, and ADHD as the "new norm"

Yeah, the benzos were the only ones that helped. Taking drugs is like being told you're not good enough as you are. Still, I'll drug myself to death if it will make me stop caring.

I just find sometimes I need a bit of chemical assistance to calm down or be less miserable feeling....valium helps with the first thing, cannabis helps with that and the second one and more but no such luck getting a doctor recommendation for that...

Does the pot ever bother you? Actually that's a stupid question, obviously not. Even when I was on benzos I couldn't smoke pot anymore. I'd get very very anxious and freaked out. A shame considering how much I loved it growing up.

Depression, anxiety, and ADHD. All mainstream because there are advertisements for them on TV... by way of drugs. People who do gab about it (maybe I'm being a cynical jerk) are talking about it for effect. Who goes through depression at its worst, comes out at the other end, and yaks about it at lunch with some acquaintance. I'm sorry. I wish it was social acceptance, but it is just the subliminal messages from all those drug ads. My opinion anyway.

And if you were having surgery or had to take meds for a heart condition and so on...would you feel inadequate if you had to take drugs.. I do believe drugs are over prescribed without learning better ways to cope.

My life is better because of medication - but I have also been active in changing and learning ways to cope and "retrain" my brain.