One week worth of pills for me as a Bipolar-I + Autism + ADHD patient. I have to take them all just to stay sane, productive and anxiety-free, at least partially. Here’s what’s here:
- Hydroxysine — a non-benzo (read not addictive) anti-anxiety pill
- Quetiapine + Lamotrigine — the number one anti-bipolar combo
- Atomoxetine — a non-amphetamine anti-ADHD pill
- Fluvoxamine — an antidepressant with anti-anxiety side effects

I’ll give u $40 for the whole thing

@shovethisrant best I can do is $700, and I’m taking a risk here

And still you think there are other receivers

Non amphetamine? Bastards! :(

That's an awful lot of medicines to take

Bless you with the best health

I knew it was kiki. I knew shes a fucked up psychotic schizophrenic psychopath

However... Tate says depression is fake but hes fucking stupid anyway cz depression is as real as me. I got it my whole life so yh ur just depressed and all other things u mentioned are excuses so u dont have to work anymore and get a vacation in dubai and bahamas instead

@b2plane You're full of shit

Which is a compliment to you, I guess

Don't take the meds and go to the jungle for some spiritual mind training. You will come back like mowgli or tarzan

@saucyatom im full of bullshit brother as soon as i get home from office ill shit so much the whole street and neighbours will be able to smell it

Are you depressed or is it just the correction reaction to the world around you

@TheBeardedOne It's lunchtime but with that question I could also just go back to bed. And stay there. Forever.

@saucyatom Goign back to bed sounds great

@saucyatom nailed explaining what depression looks like to outside observers.

@meaning2 you can call kiki a lot of things but not dumb

@meaning2 you have a little pp

@retoor me too

@d00td00t dutchies have a huge pp

@meaning2 I prefer hobbit

@superdupernova yeah, and people with diabetes can definitely replace insulin injections with meditation, as well as people with asthma can replace their inhalers.

You are not controlling your brain the pills are lol

@superdupernova interesting perspective but I like it

@jestdotty so you're telling me Type 1 diabetes can be cured by diet and exercise?

Mine's twice as many. I have 6 chronic illnesses, 3 of which are quite serious. 1 is psychiatric.

@superdupernova how the f sex doesn't count? What's the logic behind that?

@retoor men can ejaculate within a minute

@jestdotty as someone with an autoimmune and a psychiatric condition: Yes exercise and diet helps (a lot!) but without modern medicine I'd be royally fucked. Depending on the condition pills don't magically fix it, but might just help you enough to enable you doing those other helpful things.

If you're really interested in immunology, you can do a real deep dive, it's one of the hottest fields in biomedical research right now. But unfortunately there's no simple fix, mostly.

@d00td00t I'd say it doesn't count as sports if the amount of ejaculate is bigger than the amount of sweat.

@jestdotty Because it's not so easy and often not really fixed, just managed. E.g. for my conditions there's simply no (known) way to fix them, though in some cases they can be managed without medication.

If it was a temporary issue that just needed to be fixed, I'd be very happy to fix it. But that's not how it works, so I have to manage it. Which can include medication.

@meaning2 Well I do believe that for the chronic autoimmune condition that I have there is no known cure. In fact the problem is that the why and how of the disease is not clear yet.

I'm pretty sure my insurance would be happy to spend a pretty penny for a cure and save 20-30k€ per year in treatment cost.

This is not an infection, you know? It's my body being a bit fucked and attacking itself. Doctors know it's kinda the same as millions of other people, but why exactly, maybe we know in 10 or 20 years.

@meaning2 But I suppose you know more that me, as I've only read countless studies and patient reports over almost 10 years now, so please enlighten me about how it's just a big pharma conspiracy and if I just follow this one trick...

(btw people had this before "big pharma". They had a miserable and painful life.)

@jestdotty The healthcare system here is xx% of your income, roughly speaking, that goes to one of 50 or so public insurance companies. They really don't want to spent money for expensive doctor visits and MRI scans and medication and sick leave, but are legally required to pay for certain things. But how the insurance system here works doesn't matter that much.

In this case there's generics (it's a bit different for this class of medication, but I digress), which is still not cheap, because it's difficult and expensive manufacture and handle. If someone found something working better, they could take a lot more.

But sure, incentives are not that well aligned towards finding a permanent cure, especially if you have a "good enough" medication patented that you can milk. Capitalism is not pretty when taken to the max.
However you could also say that when there's something "good enough" for now, that it isn't unethical to shift research capacity to something with a larger need.

@jestdotty I'm not a fan of the system and I agree that the system is enforced with a some force, a rule of the majority over the minority, but fascism it is not*. Though fascist politics is on the rise again, not only in Germany.

* in my neck of the woods

Blaming big pharma / fascists / gubbernmint / ??? doesn't solve my health problems however.

@meaning2 you can’t prevent things like autism, it’s genetically controlled.

soulsister

@TeachMeCode so is myopia, doesn't mean you shouldn't wear correction

@kobenz why you left for a while?

had a meltdown🦥, @retoor

@kiki that's more pills than I ever took the last ten years!

Life must be hard for you. Courage!

@NeatNerdPrime you are very lucky. Do cherish yourself and protect your mind against unnecessary trauma. Once it's broken, there's no way back

@kiki in my experience there is. It just takes a lot of time, decades even. That and the amazing luck to have Loving people around you helps overcome that.

Sending remote hugs.

I've only met lovely people 'on the line'. In real life only gossipy persons.