I know this is a weird rant, but when I was a teenager I went through some extended depression and I decided antidepressants were what I needed to fix me. I made up my mind that I wasn't going to accept any other possible cure. Capitalism pressures us to be unhappy with how we are, we feel pressured to buy new things or even take pricey medical options to change ourselves. The idea that I needed a medical change was marketed to me by society, and I fell for it.
A couple decades later I still can't get off of them. I wish I had never had the option to start. I wish there had been something that could have prevented me from seeing them as an option, but that's not a reasonable request. It's not a reasonable request simply because it would cause undue harm any teens out there who actually do need that option.
Well, that and the fact that the harm wouldn't be explicitly directed at the transgender community.
Psych meds are in this sort of awful place where many they have nasty side effects, and are used way too much, but they actually help enough people that they stick around. I also got prescribed anti depressants as a teen, and took them for years, and hated it. A few years later, I dropped them and started hormone replacement therapy, which actually helped. Of course, the doctors were very happy to give my the psych meds, and relictatto give me the hormones.
I know this is a weird rant, but when I was a teenager I went through some extended depression and I decided antidepressants were what I needed to fix me. I made up my mind that I wasn't going to accept any other possible cure. Capitalism pressures us to be unhappy with how we are, we feel pressured to buy new things or even take pricey medical options to change ourselves. The idea that I needed a medical change was marketed to me by society, and I fell for it.
A couple decades later I still can't get off of them. I wish I had never had the option to start. I wish there had been something that could have prevented me from seeing them as an option, but that's not a reasonable request. It's not a reasonable request simply because it would cause undue harm any teens out there who actually do need that option.
Well, that and the fact that the harm wouldn't be explicitly directed at the transgender community.
Psych meds are in this sort of awful place where many they have nasty side effects, and are used way too much, but they actually help enough people that they stick around. I also got prescribed anti depressants as a teen, and took them for years, and hated it. A few years later, I dropped them and started hormone replacement therapy, which actually helped. Of course, the doctors were very happy to give my the psych meds, and relictatto give me the hormones.