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This looks cool, but it's not useful or interesting to me. I don't need to "heal from stigma and internalized ableism", I need to get things done and my brain is resistant to this. "stigma" and "ableism" is just psychobabble to me.
Stigma is psychobabble to you? Even if you somehow don't care what other people think, stigma gets in the way of medication.
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Stigma is psychobabble to you? Even if you somehow don't care what other people think, stigma gets in the way of medication.
Even if stigma gets in the way, it's not something about which I can do anything. Reading about it is not useful to me.
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I think maybe you answered the wrong comment
Not the wrong place; stigma is a huge part of why fulfilling these subscriptions is so awful.
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Not the wrong place; stigma is a huge part of why fulfilling these subscriptions is so awful.
I don't understand the connection at all. The pharmacy doesn't know if I'm diagnosed with ADHD but I have all those same problems. Also why would they want to withhold drugs from you? Aren't pharmacies usually parts of money-grubbing conglomerates that just want money out of you? What is in it for them to use "stigma" as a way to reduce service to you? Conversely, can you imagine the blowback if this were discovered…
> Also why would they want to withhold drugs from you?
Stimulants are bad drugs!!
Though the pharmacy itself is more worried about getting in trouble for making things too easy, because the laws are that awful.
> Conversely, can you imagine the blowback if this were discovered to be the case?
I imagine it to be quite negligible.
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Even if stigma gets in the way, it's not something about which I can do anything. Reading about it is not useful to me.
You can learn how to navigate against and around other people's biases.
"hyperactive impulsive and/or inattentive symptoms for at least 6 months...five or more for adults...no other disorder better explains the symptoms"
Probably the most well-organized effort in the world to push drugs. If they work for you without side effects, good for you. But all drugs have side effects. Would I would to mess with my dopamine levels to optimize my economic output, no fucking way.
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In situations where there is a dopamine deficiency, stimulants like amphetamines counterintuitively have the opposite effect than you would expect.
This is so counterintuitive for folks. Anecdotally, you can find a lot of stories out there from folks with ADHD who will tell you that their medication calmed their brain for the first time. It could be compared to a sensory deprivation experience. "I didn't know my brain could be this quiet," is a common refrain from people with ADHD on taking a stimulant for the first time.
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This is so counterintuitive for folks. Anecdotally, you can find a lot of stories out there from folks with ADHD who will tell you that their medication calmed their brain for the first time. It could be compared to a sensory deprivation experience. "I didn't know my brain could be this quiet," is a common refrain from people with ADHD on taking a stimulant for the first time.
That was my experience. I was astounded that my mind became so calm, and I could just sit and focus on what I needed to. Having since been medicated for some time, I now take this for granted, but it was a real watershed moment for me, that first day.
Say you find some really bad side-effect in the future, can you live a normal life without it, and then you have to think how has your mind changed since getting used to the drug compared to before? And then if you have some other health problem, you always have to worry is it because of the substance or not...so you will think maybe I need to stop just in case...and then you realize you are addicted.
"No objective test can confirm or rule out the diagnosis of ADHD" [1] "hyperactive impulsive and/or inattentive symptoms for at least 6 months...five or more for adults...no other disorder better explains the symptoms" Probably the most well-organized effort in the world to push drugs. If they work for you without side effects, good for you. But all drugs have side effects. Would I would to mess with my dopamine leve…