• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The medication stigma is based on basically magic thinking: That medicine is alien, external, unnatural while the human body is pure and natural. Therefore any difference between medicated and unmedicated is artificial and caused by the medicine.

    No, the body is fucking dropping terror chemicals in my bloodstream. It is changing my personality from easygoing and outgoing to snippy and reclusive. The body is malfunctioning and changing my personality for the worse.

    The medicine is reducing the amount and effectiveness of the body’s excess of terror chemicals. It restores normality.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      theres also the possibility that life today is truly a terrible situation for many, and your body refuses to lie to itself.

      and its way better than it usually has been.

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      6 hours ago

      “Don’t you think that eating healthy food every days is changing you from who you really are?”

      munches on bacon flavored doritos judgingly

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      hugs you

      I know this doesn’t change what your body is doing to you, but I hope it at least makes you feel loved.

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        8 hours ago

        Thanks, friend! I’m all in all in a consistent good place and living a very active functional life, but it’s 30% medication, 30% being stubbornly careful of what I let into my head, and 40% luck.