>>37479Even if there's a chance that you might not need that medication and that the current side-effects might just be temporary, I think that sounds really dangerous! If I were in your shoes, I think I would continue taking the stuff and look for a different doctor who doesn't just shut you down for being worried and curious, but is able to patiently answer to every question you have and provide you with options. Lazy doctors are really horrible when you require more complex help and they cause unneccessary stress. Hope you get better quick!
>>37500Glad to hear that it's at the very least temporarily better right now!
I believe you might be too hooked up on thinking about what truly makes you yourself, and potentially overestimating the permanence of medical treatment. I somehow naturally developed an auto-immune disorder that already caused permanent damage to some of my movement abilities (though it's not as bad as it might sound) and I need to undergo treatment to keep this issue in check and not eventually lose the ability to use a controller, keyboard or do grocery shopping on my own. This is a physical problem, not a mental one, but seeing as it supposedly developed by pure chance, one could make the argument that it makes the whole of me and that treating it would be to manipulate not only myself, but also my fate. Not treating it would mean I would eventually lose all the abilities I need to engage in the things that I like. Similarly, I believe if you don't change anything, you will also eventually lose the things that currently might provide you with at least the tiniest bit of relief, and that currently, you might just be making things unnecessarily more difficult for yourself.
As for the permanence of medical treatment, I view it more like a temporary supplement that is used to kickstart you into a better direction, one that provides you with a better feeling just from working towards it. Then, once you've gotten to a much better place with the help of treatment, work towards cutting it out again. From what I heard (and this is actually just from random internet posts now, no personal experience or belief), feeling like a zombie is an issue with too high dosages or wrong medication that should get swapped out for a different one whic
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