Yes, and I *was*... I'm disenfranchised now. I will vote conservatively, but I can't in good conscience call myself a conservative... I'm broke, unemployed... But yeah, I *thought* I was a liberal, but I can't align with communists. That ended in January, 2020.
The question: has a doctor ever told you you have a mental illness?
They tell you but they don't. I've been on tons of meds over the years. I still don't know what my diagnosis is.
Mental illness is an umbrella catch all term. It's a pipeline to a lifetime of taking something.
It's a subscription as much as a prescription. Like everything else these days.
Amphetamines are awesome, though... As appetite suppressants, especially... Miss those... But the whole "take a stimulant to calm the f**k down" is great until it doesn't work anymore. Now you don't calm down AND you're on speed.
No, the doctors just scribble something illegible while they listen to you. Then it's some advice about sleep, exercise, *rips Rx from pad and hands it to you, doctor leaves*... If I had cancer they would say it's cancer. With this, at least in a clinic (as I have no doctor) the drugs you take determine what you have, not the other way round.
Even when I was in HS, over 20 years ago, it never made sense that a side effect of antidepressants could be that you might kill yourself. If anything is a clear sign that you need to go back to the drawing boards, it's the happy pills you make, can make people kill themselves.
