[leomama]

How do you feel when somebody either talks to you or another person about your medication? I personally feel violated and angry. Does everybody share with their partner about the medication they're taking?

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[elevatedsoul]

it usually depends for me...
i dont like other people to talk to other people about my medication..
but if someone has a question about something i take i usually dont have a problem giving my experience on it and what i've heard from other people...
but if they come at me in a condescending manner then i cant stand it... don't make assumptions because someone is on a certain medication, just because someone is taking one thing doesn't mean that they have a specific illness... meds can be used for different things, ignorance is usually the part that bothers me..

if you go around telling people you take like adderall it seems they will think you are a junkie ..
or if you are on an antipsychotic like you are some kind of murderer or something...

i usually dont bring it up, but i dont talk to many people anyway ..
but maybe its just the way i have experienced these things, maybe its just in my head and people dont really think that

[leomama]

I can relate. My partner looks up my medication and tells me what he read all the while maintaining that he doesn't need to take that medication while supposedly he has the same diagnosis I do. He's not taking any psychotropic medication at all. It really infuriates me. To make matters worse he talked to my father about my medication using that term "strong medication" that we talked about on another thread. I told my partner not to talk to my father anymore about my medication. I'm going to have to tell him next not to talk to me about my medication. Since I can't control what he does the only thing I can do is stop talking to him about how I feel tired. It's aggravating .

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[elevatedsoul]

i totally understand .. thats one of the reasons i dont like telling everyone about what i take because everyone wants to be a professional these days and they google stuff thinking they get a complete and full understanding of what it is they look up...

they had me on a lot of medication .. i cant remember how many of which but it was 9 total meds.. several antipsychotics, several antidepressants, moodstabilizer, sleep, anxiety, i couldn't even get all those names out of my mouth and if i did tell someone they would of thought that i must be totally insane...
but the truth of the matter is that my symptoms are complex... i've never been psychotic before, which people automatically assume you have if you are on an "antipsychotic" .. never hallucinated or what have you... im not even bipolar apparently because those meds didnt really help things...

but i guess people really are afraid of "the unknown"

Fear of the Unknown Phobia – Xenophobia. Xenophobia is derived from the Greek word 'Xenos' meaning “foreigner or stranger” and Phobos which means 'morbid fear'. Xenophobia is the irrational sensation of fear experienced about a person or a group of persons as well as situations that are perceived as strange or foreign.Feb 9, 2014

Fear of the Unknown Phobia ? Xenophobia

i guess we just have to only do what we ourselves are comfortable with.. if we aren't comfortable with the 'backlash' of what might happen, i tend to avoid those things..
but i have avoidant issues anyway..

i've kind of gotten to the point where i dont really care what other people think about me because i dont even know what to think about me anymore :/

but im still extremely bothered by judgement and ridicule and what not... kind of like 'if you want to think something bad about me, go over there in the corner away from me and do it where i dont know about it'


maybe the next time someone says something about a medication being strong, you can mention how if you eat too much sugar you risk developing diabetes, too much salt and you can have heart disease and if you dont eat enough become deficient which could cause organs to shut down..? anything can be looked at as "strong" ... everyones chemistry is made up differently... whats strong to you may not be strong to him, some people cant take any medication because their system reacts badly to too many things... so maybe even an aspirin to them is too strong...

it really is nerve wracking when you are experiencing enough issues to need a medication and then have to deal with issues because you are taking a medication on top of it

sometimes people are just ignorant and dont know what they say may be offensive... or maybe they just dont realize what they are saying doesnt make much sense

hope thats not too confusing, my mind is a mess lately... but i totally know what you mean, since i dont talk to many people i dont have to deal with it too often... i tend to withdraw and isolate alot because its easier

wish i did have something stronger to take

hang in there and try to laugh the silly things they have to say off and tell them to "stop playing doctor" like my doctors used to tell me LOL

edit:
lol im a total nerd

[-jimi-]

All was well with my friend and I before a pharmacy couldn't check if another pharmacy had my med, because you can't do that with classed medications here. Pharmacist smiled and was like Duh yea I can't do that with narcotics. My friend was there and she thinks narcotics = classed meds all mean opiates. I tried forever to explain I'm not taking something like morphine. She doesn't get it. She started talking about it at very odd times how I should come off that med. Sigh.

Also she thinks I'm "on a ton of meds" just because I take a few, but very low dosage, instead of taking one at a high dosage. I tried to explain this as well but she doesn't understand that either.

But in general anyone talking about MY MEDS makes me cringe.

[leomama]

Thank you both. I think from here on out I am not talking about my medication with people who don't take my medication.

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